Frances "Fanny" Hayes, daughter of President Rutherford B. Hayes, c. 1877.
Fanny was the only daughter of President Rutherford B. Hayes, but she wasn’t lonely at the White House. She had seven brothers, who all liked to play “Hide and Seek” and “Blindman’s Bluff”—and sometimes Supreme Court Justices or Senators would join in the fun. The American consul in Bangkok sent the Hayes children a cat named Siam, who was the first Siamese cat in the United States. Fanny also enjoyed swimming, dancing, piano, and carriage rides around D.C. with her mother Lucy. She would hang out with the White House secretaries as they used these new things called telephones—and if she was good, she would get to talk into them, too.