Nathaniel Fillmore

Nathaniel Fillmore Jr., was an American farmer. He was the father of U.S. president Millard Fillmore. A native of Bennington, Vermont, he farmed there until he was in his mid-twenties when his brother Calvin and he moved to western New York. Duped by unscrupulous land agents, their titles proved defective and they lost their new farms. He became a tenant farmer and occasionally taught school; the Fillmore family's circumstances were so dire that they sometimes relied on the charity of their landlords to survive.