- Ida Elizabeth Stover
Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower (
May 1 ,1862 –September 11 ,1946 )cite web |url=http://www.woodrowwilson.org/visit_sub/visit_sub_show.htm?doc_id=615898 |title=Additional Virginia Presidential Connections |accessdate=2008-09-06 |work=woodrowwilson.org |publisher=Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library ] was a lifelongpacifist , [cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816260,00.html |title=Eisenhower: A Factual Sketch |accessdate=2008-09-06 |work=time.com |publisher=Time |date=1952-04-07 ] and the mother of U.S. PresidentDwight David Eisenhower .She was born in Mount Sidney,
Virginia , the only daughter of Elizabeth Ida Juda Link and Simon P. Stover. [cite web |url=http://www.gencircles.com/users/revlarry/10/data/5153 |title=Elizabeth Ida (Juda) Link |accessdate=2008-09-06 |work=gencircles.com |publisher=GenCircles ]When her mother died while she was five years old, Ida was sent to live with her paternal grandparents and later was brought up by her elder brothers in
Kansas , who thought that girls shouldn't be educated and instead pushed her to memorize theBible . When she was ready to go to high school, she was told that she couldn't so she ran away. She graduated at age 19 and taught for two years before enteringLane University , where she met her future husband,David Jacob Eisenhower .Fact|date=September 2008She was named Kansas Mother of the Year in 1945. [cite web |url=http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/GUIDES/Womens_Studies.pdf |format=PDF |title=Women's Studies : A Guide to the Historical Holdings in the Eisenhower Library |accessdate=2008-09-05 |work=www.eisenhower.archives.gov |page=p. 11 |publisher=Eisenhower Library |month=April |year=1994 ]
Dwight said of her:
:"Many such persons of her faith, selflessness, and boundless consideration of others have been called saintly. She was that—but above all she was a worker, an administrator, a teacher and guide, a truly wonderful woman."Fact|date=September 2008
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External links
*http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/IDA.HTM
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