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The Wilson family moved to Augusta, Georgia, then, in 1870, to Columbia, South Carolina.
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The Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson accepted a call as pastor of the Furst Presbyterian Church in Staunton. He and his wife, Janet (Jessie) and their two little girls moved into the Greek Revival Manse built by the church in 1846.
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On December 28th, `856, a son was born to the Wilsons. He was name Thomas Woodrow for his maternal uncle, a Presbyterian minister in Ohio.
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Woodrow Wilson graduated in May from Princeton College, and then, in September, he entered law school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
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Wilson married Ellen Axon of Rome, Georgia. From 1885-1902, he was a professor of history and political science at Bryn Mawr College, Wesleyan College, and Princeton College. He and his wife had three daughters.
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After practicing law in Atlanta for a year, Wilson entered the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He published his doctoral dissertation, Congressional Government, in 1865 and received his Ph.D. in 1886
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Wilson was appointed President of Princeton University.
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He was elected Democratic Governor of New Jersey.
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Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States. In December he returned to visit his Birthplace. During his Presidency, many reform measures were enacted.
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His wife died in the White House in 1914.
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In 1915 President Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt.
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Wilson had hoped to stay out of the war in Europe, but in April he proclaimed the joint resolution that the United States was at war with Germany.
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In January, Wilson announced his Fourteen Points as a basis for world peace. It was his dream that these Fourteen Points be written into the peace treaty at the end of World War I.
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Armistice was declared on November 11. Wilson sailed for Europe on December 4. He made a triumphal tour there before going to Paris for the Peace Conference.
