April 23, 1930
I AM GLAD to learn that you and Mrs. Markham are celebrating your seventy-eighth birthday together today, and I hope that through many more years you may enjoy the happiness which you have so freely given to others.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. Edwin Markham, 92 Waters Avenue, Staten Island, New York]
Note: The message was sent in conjunction with the celebration of Markham Day by the poet's neighbors on Staten Island.
Edwin Markham was a poet, best known for his "Man With the Hoe."
Herbert Hoover, Message Congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Markham on Their 78th Birthday. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210372