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The Life of Woodrow Wilson.
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... The Life of Woodrow Wilson There is an important man in this nation's history who couldn't read until he was nine years old. He used black golf balls when there was snow on the ground. This man also became blind in his right eye due to a retinal hemorrhage. His name was Woodrow Wilson, and he was our nation's 28th president ("Thomas Woodrow Wilson" 1). Woodrow Wilson, whose real first name was Thomas was born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia. His father, Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, was the pastor of the Presbyterian church in his hometown. In 1857, the Wilson's moved to Augusta, Georgia. Woodrow Wilson's first memory is "standing at my father's gateway in Augusta, Georgia, when I was four years old, and hearing someone pass and say that Mr. Lincoln was elected and there was to be war," ("Woodrow Wilson" 1). Wilson's father was a chaplain














