The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-02-29
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THE WIVES OF GREAT MEN.
FIFTEEN REMARKABLY INSTANCES.

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Robert Burns married girl with whom he
fell in love while they worked together in the
plowfied He was irreguler in his life, and
committed the most serious mistakes in. con-
ducting his domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter or country
squire, but lived with her only short time.--
He was austere, exacting; a literary recluse;
while she was rosy, rOmping lass that could
not endure the restraint imposed upon her;
so they separated. Subsequently, however,
she returned, and they lived toerably happy
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
cousins and about the only example in the
long line of English monarchs wherein the
marital vows were sacredly observed and sin
cere affection existed. 5
Shakspear loved and welded farmers
daughter. She proved faithful to her vows,
but we could hardly say the same of the great
bard himself. Like most of the great poets,
he showed too little discrimination in bestow-
ing his affections on the other sex.
Byron married Miss Millbank to get money
to pay his debts. 1t turned out bad shift.
Benjamin Franklin married the girl who
stood in her fathers door and laughed at him
as he wandered through the streets of Phila-
delphia with a roll of bread under his arm and
his pockets filled with dirty clothes. She had
occasion to be happy when she found herself
the wife of such good and great man.
Washington married widow with two chill
dren. 1t is enough to say of her that she was
worthy of him, and that they lived as married
folks should live, in perfect harmony.
John Adams married the daughter of
Presbyterian clergyman. Her father objected
on account of Johns being lawyer; he had
bad opinion of the morals of his profession.
Thomas Jefferson married Mrs Martha
oil huf cho
him large fortune in real estate After the
ceremony she mounted the horse behind him
and they rode home together. 1t was late in
the evening and they found the fire out. But
the great statesman hurried about and rebuilt
it, while she seized the broom and soon put
things in order It is needless to say that they
were happy, though Jefferson died poor man
on account of his extreme liberality and hospi-
taliry.
John Howard, the great philanthropist, mar
ried his nurse. She was altogether beneath
him in social life and intellectual capacity, and
besides this she was fifty-two years old while
he was but twenty-five. He would not take
mo" for an answer, and they were married
and lived happily together until her death, which
occurred about two years afterwards.
Peter the Great, of Prussia, married peas
ant girl. She made an excellent wife and sage
empress.
Humboldt married a poor girl because he
loved her Of course they were happy.
1t is not generally known that Andrew jack
son married lady whose husband was still
living. She was an uneducated but amiabe
woman, and was most devotedly attached to
the old warrior.
John Calhoun married his cousin. and their
children fortunately were neither diseased nor
idiotic, but they do not evince the talent of the
great Estates Rights" advocate.
Edward Lytton Bulwer, the English states
man and novelist, married a girl much his in
ferior in position, and got shrew for wife,
She is now insane.