Grace Coolidge Grace Coolidge Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (January 3, 1879 – July 8, 1957) was the wife of the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 and the Second Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 with a bachelor of arts degree in teaching and joined the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech in Northampton, Massachusetts to teach deaf children to communicate by lip reading, rather than by signing. She met Calvin Coolidge in 1904, and
Goodhue Livingston Goodhue Livingston Goodhue Livingston (February 23, 1867 – June 3, 1951) was an American architect who co-founded the firm of Trowbridge & Livingston and designed the Hayden Planetarium. Livingston was born in New York City on February 23, 1867. He was the son of Robert Edward Livingston (1820–1889) and Susan Maria Clarkson de Peyster (1823–1910). His siblings included Catharine Goodhue Livingston (1856–1931), Robert Robert Livingston (1858–1899), who married Mary Tailer (1863–1944), and Edward De Peyster Livingston (1861–1932). His paternal grandparents were Edward Philip Livingston (1779–1843), the 11th Lieutenant Governor of New York, and Elizabeth Stevens Livingston (1780–1829), the eldest daughter