Wills on Display — Washington, D.C.

Should your travels take you to Washington, D.C., you may want to stop by the D.C. Superior Court Probate Division to view a free exhibit of the wills of famous Washingtonians including:

• Alexander Graham Bell (inventor)
• President Grover Cleveland
• President James Monroe
• President Woodrow Wilson
• President and Dolley Madison
• President Franklin Pierce
• Julia Dent Grant (wife of President Ulysses S. Grant)
• Frederick Douglass (abolitionist)
• Euphemia Loftan Hayes (first African-American woman to earn Ph.D. in math)
• Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Credit for putting together the exhibit goest to Anne Meister, the register of wills.