Editing Calvin Coolidge (section)

===Marriage and family===
[[File:Coolidge family LCCN2014716433.jpg|thumb|upright|Coolidge with his family, {{c.}} 1915]]

In 1903, Coolidge met [[Grace Goodhue]], a graduate of the [[University of Vermont]] and a teacher at Northampton's [[Clarke School for the Deaf]]. They married on October 4, 1905, at 2:30&nbsp;p.m. in a small ceremony which took place in the parlor of Grace's family's house, having overcome her mother's objections to the marriage.{{sfn|Bryson|2013|p=187}} The newlyweds went on a [[honeymoon]] trip to [[Montreal]], originally planned for two weeks but cut short by a week at Coolidge's request. After 25 years he wrote of Grace, "for almost a quarter of a century she has borne with my infirmities and I have rejoiced in her graces".{{sfn|White|1938|p=61}}

The Coolidges had two sons: [[John Coolidge|John]] (1906–2000) and Calvin Jr. (1908–1924). On June 30, 1924, Calvin Jr. played [[tennis]] with his brother on the White House tennis courts without putting on socks and developed a [[blister]] on one of his toes. The blister subsequently degenerated into [[sepsis]]. He died a little over a week later at the age of 16.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shapell |first1=Benjamin |last2=Willen |first2=Sara |title=The Death of Calvin Coolidge Jr. |url=https://www.shapell.org/historical-perspectives/between-the-lines/death-calvin-coolidge-jr/ |publisher=Shapell Manuscript Foundation |access-date=April 8, 2019 |date=July 6, 2017}}</ref> 

Coolidge never forgave himself for Calvin Jr's death.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Remini |editor1-first=Robert V. |editor2-last=Golway |editor2-first=Terry |title=Fellow Citizens: The Penguin Book of U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses |date=2008 |publisher=Penguin Books |page=307 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZMjOsudMDhgC&pg=PA307|isbn=978-1440631573 }}</ref> His elder son John said it "hurt [Coolidge] terribly", and psychiatric biographer Robert E. Gilbert, author of'' The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression'', said that Coolidge "ceased to function as President after the death of his sixteen-year-old son". Gilbert writes that after Calvin Jr.'s death Coolidge displayed all ten of the symptoms the [[American Psychiatric Association]] lists as evidence of [[major depressive disorder]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/12/president-coolidges-burden/303175/|title= President Coolidge's Burden |work= The Atlantic |date= 2003|access-date= December 12, 2021}}</ref> John later became a railroad executive, helped start the Coolidge Foundation, and was instrumental in creating the [[President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site]].{{sfn|Martin|2000}}

Coolidge was frugal, and when it came to securing a home, he insisted upon renting. He and his wife attended Northampton's Edwards [[Congregational church|Congregational]] Church before and after his presidency.{{sfn|Shlaes|2013|p=91}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJPeDQAAQBAJ&q=%22Edwards+congregational+church%22+Coolidge&pg=PT108|title=The Presidents & Their Faith: From George Washington to Barack Obama|last1=Grinder|first1=Darrin|last2=Shaw|first2=Steve|year= 2016|publisher=Elevate Publishing|isbn=978-1943425778|language=en}}</ref>