Millard Powers Fillmore

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[td]After the death of his mother, in 1853, his father married [[Caroline Carmichael McIntosh]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/mfillmore.html|title=Millard Fillmore Thirteenth President β€’ 1850-53|publisher=Internet Public Library|access-date=2014-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2007052....html|archive-date=2007-05-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> a union which Millard Powers Fillmore reportedly never accepted. Following his father's death at age 74, he engaged in a bitter battle with his stepmother over the terms of his late father's will, which young Millard won.<ref name="Quinn"/>[/td]
[td]After the death of his mother, in 1853, his father married [[Caroline Carmichael McIntosh]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/mfillmore.html|title=Millard Fillmore Thirteenth President β€’ 1850-53|publisher=Internet Public Library|access-date=2014-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2007052....html|archive-date=2007-05-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> a union which Millard Powers Fillmore reportedly never accepted. Following his father's death in 1874 at age 74, he engaged in a bitter battle with his stepmother over the terms of his late father's will, which young Millard won.<ref name="Quinn"/>[/td]
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[td]Millard Powers Fillmore never married and had no children, so he was his father's last surviving descendant. He died of [[apoplexy]] in Buffalo on November 15, 1889 at the age of 61.<ref name="Times">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstr...63AE532A25755C1A9679D94689FD7CF|title=MILLARD POWERS FILLMORE DEAD.|work=The New York Times|access-date=2008-10-20 | date=1889-11-16}}</ref> Fillmore was buried at [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo)|Forest Lawn Cemetery]] in Buffalo. His will directed that all his family correspondence (including that with his father) be burned, the motive for which was the subject of much speculation.<ref name="Quinn"/>[/td]
[td]Millard Powers Fillmore never married and had no children, so he was his father's last surviving descendant. He died of [[apoplexy]] in Buffalo on November 15, 1889 at the age of 61.<ref name="Times">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstr...63AE532A25755C1A9679D94689FD7CF|title=MILLARD POWERS FILLMORE DEAD.|work=The New York Times|access-date=2008-10-20 | date=1889-11-16}}</ref> Fillmore was buried at [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo)|Forest Lawn Cemetery]] in Buffalo. His will directed that all his family correspondence (including that with his father) be burned, the motive for which was the subject of much speculation.<ref name="Quinn"/>[/td]

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