Editing Woodrow Wilson (section)

== Marriage and family ==
[[File:ELWilson.jpg|thumb|In September 1883, Wilson proposed to his future wife, [[Ellen Axson Wilson]], the daughter of a [[Presbyterian]] minister in [[Savannah, Georgia]].]]
In 1883, Wilson met and fell in love with [[Ellen Louise Axson]].<ref>Heckscher (1991), pp. 62–65.</ref> He proposed marriage in September 1883; she accepted, but they agreed to postpone marriage while Wilson attended graduate school.<ref>Berg (2013), pp. 89–92</ref> Axson graduated from [[Art Students League of New York]], worked in portraiture, and received a medal for one of her works from the [[Exposition Universelle (1878)]] in Paris.<ref>"[http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=28 First Lady Biography: Ellen Wilson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009085710/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=28 |date=October 9, 2018 }}", National First Ladies' Library</ref> She agreed to sacrifice further independent artistic pursuits in order to marry Wilson in 1885.<ref>Heckscher (1991), pp. 71–73.</ref> Ellen learned [[German language|German]] so she could help translate German-language political science publications relevant to Woodrow's research.<ref>Berg (2013), p. 107</ref>

In April 1886, the couple's first child, [[Margaret Woodrow Wilson|Margaret]], was born. Their second child, [[Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre|Jessie]], was born in August 1887.<ref>Heckscher (1991), p. 85.</ref> Their third and final child, [[Eleanor Wilson McAdoo|Eleanor]], was born in October 1889.<ref>Berg (2013), p. 112</ref> In 1913, Jessie married [[Francis Bowes Sayre Sr.]], who later served as [[High Commissioner to the Philippines]].<ref>Berg (2013), p. 317</ref> In 1914, their third child Eleanor married [[William Gibbs McAdoo]], [[U.S. Secretary of the Treasury|U.S. secretary of the treasury]] under Woodrow Wilson and later a [[U.S. Senator from California|U.S. senator from California]].<ref name="auto1">Berg (2013), p. 328</ref>