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President Calvin Coolidge had two sons, who died 76 years apart.
The older son, John, died in 2000 at the age of 91. In 1960, he opened a cheese company in Plymouth, VT, his father's town of birth. He subsequently led the way to setting up the Coolidge Historical Site, and lived in Plymouth until his death.
The younger son, Calvin Coolidge, Jr., died in 1924 at the age of 16. He'd been playing a game of tennis barefoot with his brother John, and got a blister. The blister became infected and, in the days before antibiotics, this progressed to blood poisoning which killed him a week after the game.
The death of course profoundly affected his father, who had been president less than a year at the time. Already a somewhat taciturn man, he turned inward and threw himself into his work, earning the nickname "Silent Cal".
The older son, John, died in 2000 at the age of 91. In 1960, he opened a cheese company in Plymouth, VT, his father's town of birth. He subsequently led the way to setting up the Coolidge Historical Site, and lived in Plymouth until his death.
The younger son, Calvin Coolidge, Jr., died in 1924 at the age of 16. He'd been playing a game of tennis barefoot with his brother John, and got a blister. The blister became infected and, in the days before antibiotics, this progressed to blood poisoning which killed him a week after the game.
The death of course profoundly affected his father, who had been president less than a year at the time. Already a somewhat taciturn man, he turned inward and threw himself into his work, earning the nickname "Silent Cal".