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The Hermitage, Home of Andrew Jackson

by Mary C. Dorris

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Side Hall

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.

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