ANDREW AND ELIZA JOHNSON

About the Book

About the Author

Mildred Crow Sargent was a 40-year old grandmother when she started to college, with the goal of becoming a teacher. She had been active in PTA and Cub Scouts in Donelson, Tennessee, and writing Church and school news for the Donelson Community News. After her eldest son was married, and the youngest was in high school, she became a representative for World Book Encyclopedia. When she became district manager for that company, she visited the elementary schools in the area to teach the students how to use the encyclopedia. She enjoyed that so much that she decided that she wanted to become a teacher. She hoped to improve her writing skills as she trained for the job of teaching. She was employed for five years as an elementary school librarian in the Wilson County School System in Tennessee, before her husband was advised by his doctor to move to Florida for his health. Only two years late, on August 18, 1988, he died. Mildred was remarried in Florida, on October 25, 1993, to John W. Sargent, Sr., giving up her dream of earning the Doctor of Arts degree. Nevertheless, she still enjoys writing, and the first volume of her biographical history of William Few was released in April, 2004. The second volume completed the story of William Few, a Founding Father’s life within the context of early American History. This biography of Andrew & Eliza Johnson is her third work. She is also included in the 2008 edition of Marquis, Who’s Who in America, V. 2, p. 4110.