Van Buren's House, Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren is the only US president who did not grow up speaking English. His family lived in what was then the Dutch speaking village of Kinderhook, New York. Van Buren was the first president to be born a US citizen, earlier presidents had been born in colonial days.
This is the house Van Buren bought as an adult, as a child he had lived above his father's tavern.
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Born in 1782, the future president was raised by Dutch parents, with Van Buren receiving his early schooling at the Kinderhook Academy. A young Martin also received an early political education by virtue of the fact that his father’s tavern often served as a local center for the sometimes-raucous political debate that befitted a new nation.
Van Buren couldn’t afford to attend college, so he began an apprenticeship with a local lawyer, Francis Sylvester, and, in 1803, passed the bar and took up practice as a lawyer.
-- [Hudson Valley] Almanac Weekly
Van Buren's House, Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren is the only US president who did not grow up speaking English. His family lived in what was then the Dutch speaking village of Kinderhook, New York. Van Buren was the first president to be born a US citizen, earlier presidents had been born in colonial days.
This is the house Van Buren bought as an adult, as a child he had lived above his father's tavern.
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Born in 1782, the future president was raised by Dutch parents, with Van Buren receiving his early schooling at the Kinderhook Academy. A young Martin also received an early political education by virtue of the fact that his father’s tavern often served as a local center for the sometimes-raucous political debate that befitted a new nation.
Van Buren couldn’t afford to attend college, so he began an apprenticeship with a local lawyer, Francis Sylvester, and, in 1803, passed the bar and took up practice as a lawyer.
-- [Hudson Valley] Almanac Weekly