What is Harry S Trumans moms name?

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What is Harry S Trumans moms name?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Martha Ellen Young Truman...

Apparently she was the daughter of Solomon Young. Here is a tidbit from a biography on Harry S. Truman. It tells quite a bit of genealogical information:

The man who was to guide the United States through this critical period was born May 8, 1884, at Lamar, Mo. He was the son of John Anderson Truman, a cattle trader, and Martha Young Truman.

He was named Harry for his mother's brother, Harry Young. He was given the middle initial "S" (but no name) for his grandfathers, Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young. Truman's great-grandmother, Nancy Tyler Holmes, was a first cousin of John Tyler, tenth president of the United States. It is interesting to know that Tyler was the first vicepresident to become president by succession, and Truman was the seventh. It was Tyler who insisted that the vice-president should actually become the president of the United States and not just acting president when he takes the office of the chief executive.

Shortly after Harry's birth, the Truman family moved to nearby Independence, Mo., not far from Kansas City. There Harry attended grade school and high school. He wore glasses from the age of 9. This kept him from doing many things the other boys did. He preferred to spend his time reading. Mark Twain, stories of the American Civil War, and the lives of great men were his favorites. He had read the Bible through twice before he was 12. There was a small library in Independence, where young Harry spent additional hours reading histories, novels, and encyclopedias. Sometimes he took the encyclopedias home with him to read. Mathilda Brown, Truman's high-school history teacher, said of him: "I doubt if there was a student in any high school in the country who knew more of the history of the United States than Harry did." The smartest boy in that graduating class of 1901, however, was Charles G. Ross. Ross later became President Truman's press secretary.

During the summers Harry, his sister, Mary Jane, and his younger brother, John Vivian, visited their grandparents, the Solomon Youngs, on their farm at Grandview, Mo. There they helped with the farm work, rode horses, and swam. From the age of 13 Harry took piano lessons, first in Independence and later in Kansas City. He became a good amateur pianist. Truman later said he might have become a concert pianist if he had not gone into politics. When he became president, he often played the piano to relax from the cares of office. He also accompanied his daughter, Margaret, when she sang for White House visitors. Chopin and Mozart were his favorite composers.

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