Mathias M. White : Dolley Madison's Fisk casket
Posted by Cunningb2 | Posted in Dolley Madison - First Lady | Posted on August 26, 2020
M.M. White acted as undertaker to First Lady Dolley Madison
" Along with his invoice, Fisk unashamedly asked John Payne Todd for an endorsement of his product. “May we ask of you a little expression of your sentiments regarding our Metallic burial Case and the satisfaction with which it was received, to yourself and your friends, Such a favor … would be of great service to us” (Almond Dunbar Fisk to John Payne Todd, 23 July 1849).
Though Todd’s response has never been located, he probably provided a positive review, as Dolley was cited in advertisements for Fisk’s coffin in the years following.
An 1853 sign advertisement for Mathias M. White, an undertaker in Washington DC who sold Fisk coffins, for example, listed “Mrs. Madison,” John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, as notable individuals who had been encased in a Fisk coffin; of those listed, Dolley had been the first.[7]" https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde/editorialnote.xqy?note=all#n32
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