KINDERHOOK — Martin Van Buren National Historic Site will host ... Special tours led by Kyle Bradford and Anna Duhon, of the Farmscape Ecology Program, will take place at 10:15 a.m., 11: ...

This was true of Anna Haining Swan Bates, who in addition to being quite the personality was also pegged as “The Largest Woman in the World”. “Worth 7 years of school”: Intern doctors ...

Anna Haining Swan was born on August 6 ... While on the southern leg of the tour, Anna met Martin Van Buren Bates of Kentucky. Bates was a Confederate Captain during the Civil War and was eloquent, ...

How much do you know about President Martin Van Buren? Chances are, not much. The eighth president of the United States, who served from 1837 - 1841, does not usually get Mount Rushmore-level ...

Though President Andrew Jackson gave the period its name, the most talented practitioner of the new art of popular politics was Jackson’s diminutive successor, Martin Van Buren. According to ...

Their display includes life-sized statues of Martin and Anna Bates as well as a pair of Captain Bates' shoes and his hat. Martin Van Buren Bates ... Anna Haining Swan was born in Nova Scotia ...

Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan Bates lived comfortably in Seville, Ohio, in the 1870s and 1880s. They earned good incomes working as circus attractions, and they owned a productive farm with a ...

The first is Anna Haining Swan and Martin Van Buren Bates, who both stood nearly 8 feet tall. Because of their impressive height, they’re considered the tallest married couple ever recorded. Swan — ...