John Coolidge John Coolidge John Calvin Coolidge III (September 7, 1906 – May 31, 2000) was an American executive, businessman, and entrepreneur with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and the first son of President Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge. John Coolidge was born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, on September 7, 1906. He was the elder of the two children of Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), the 30th President of the United States from 1923 to 1929 and Grace Anna Goodhue (1879–1957), First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929. In his autobiography, Calvin Coolidge recorded his impressions of
Goodhue County, Minnesota exceptionally true of Goodhue County. The New Englanders brought with them many of their New England values including a love of education and a fervent support of the abolitionist movement. When the New Englanders first arrived in what has since become Goodhue County, there was nothing but a wild prairie. They laid out farms, established post routes, and built schools and government buildings out of locally available materials. The New Englanders and their descendants made up the great majority of Goodhue county's inhabitants until the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, at which point immigrants from Germany and Norway began