Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thank you, Roger - due to this question (I knew Andrew Johnson was a tailor and not well educated, but not that his wife was - so I was curious...) I came across some (to me) interesting asides:
- that Mordecai Lincoln presided over the nuptials of Andrew Johnson (aged 18) and Eliza McCardle (aged 16) on May 17, 1827,
- that Eliza Johnson married at a younger age than any other First Lady
- that Hawaii at that time had a beautiful Queen named Emma (Emalani Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea in Hawaiian, or Emma Alexandrina Francis Agnes Lowder Byde Rooke Young Kaleleokalani in English),
...and I learned of the inventor of baseball, Alexander Cartwright, who lived and is buried on Hawaii - very interesting that such a popular "public" game like baseball was indeed officially recognized as an invention by an individual*.

Ms. Johnson was not able to serve as First Lady due to her poor health and left the social chores to her daughter. She appeared publicly as First Lady on only two occasions - at a reception for Queen Emma of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1866 and at the president's birthday party in 1867.

I've never heard of Queen Emma, and her name and story made me think of my favorite fictional character in childhood - Pippilotta Rollgardinia Victualia Peppermint Longstocking, who became Princess of the tropical island Taka Tuka.

* Alexander Cartwright was officially declared the inventor of the modern game of baseball by the 83rd United States Congress on June 3, 1953. In 1849, Cartwright headed to California for the gold rush, but ended up in the Hawaiian Islands instead, where he became an advisor and friend of Queen Emma and the King, and encouraged the growth of baseball on the islands.
Queen Emma and Alexander Cartwright: