The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson — John Shaqi
The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew JacksonDorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
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The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
Dorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
1. Famous Military Portrait (by Earl).
2. Secretary presented to General Jackson.
3. Original sofa purchased by the Association in 1937.
4. The wallpaper in the side hall (downstairs) is a copy of the
original, the part upstairs is the original.
5. Marble bust of General Jackson, presented by Hon. Lawrence
Cooper, of Huntsville, Ala.
6. Precepts, given to Jackson in his early youth by his mother,
which he said ruled his life. This copy presented by E. A.
Lindsey and Reau E. Folk.
7. Jackson’s Masonic Apron loaned by Stanley F. Horn.
8. Copy of Jackson’s portrait, which hangs in the Nashville Masonic
Temple, the original having been painted when Jackson was
Grand Master. Presented by the Grand Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons of Tennessee.
9. Presentation copy of Masonic Manual, dedicated to Jackson and
presented to him by the author, Wilkins Tannehil.
10. Early portrait of Jackson, showing in the background the
Hermitage as it was before it was remodeled in 1831 and
preceding the fire of 1834. It was presented by Mrs. Charles
W. Frear, of Troy, N. Y., in memory of her husband, who owned
it for many years.
11. Jackson portrait by Sully. Presented in 1958 by Mrs. John
Valentine Mershon of Philadelphia, whose grandfather, Jonathan
Paul Worrall, was one of the group who originally proposed
Jackson’s nomination for the presidency, and who previously
owned the portrait. It was carried at the head of political
parades.
12. 1819 Map of the United States given by Mrs. James Wemyss of
Gallatin, Tennessee.
_Office or Library_
For thirty years the Hermitage was the political center of the United
States, and Andrew Jackson was the most influential man of his party.
Many visitors, political and otherwise, were constantly being received
by General Jackson in this office.
The books are those that constituted General and Mrs. Jackson’s library
and some of those of the two succeeding generations. The bookcases,
which were General and Mrs. Jackson’s, hold volumes of history, poetry,
fiction, theology, military regulations, law, medical practices for the
home, veterinary science, gardening, bound state papers and newspapers
of the time, school books, etc., numbering over 400.
The tables of mahogany, the brass candlestick, mahogany chairs, pair of
bronze oil lamps, cut glass celande or hurricane shade, brass spittoon,
boar paperweight, and owl inkstand are all original. The carpet, not
originally in the Hermitage, was obtained from the home of Mrs. Edgar
Foster, which was built in the period of the Hermitage. Other original
furnishings are:
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