Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-11-08
PERSONAL.

Lucca has Won very signal triumph in
Marguerite in Faust, - in New York All
the newspaper critics speak of her with the
utmost enthusiasm.
Senator Edmunds arrived in town yester-
day morning, having come all the way from
Washington, to vote for Grant and Wilson.
Senator Morrill, also returned from Wash
ington to Vermont, to vote
Harper's Weekly says of Hon. Justin 5.
Morrill, . He is very industrious man,
very ready man, and a very witty man,
and has great personal popularity with
members of both political parties"
0. P. c. Billings, ESD, formerly of
Woodstock, was one of the Republican can
didates for Alderman of New York city,
whose nomination was endorsed by the Com
mittee of Seventy.
Mrs Greeley's maiden name was Mary
| G. Cheney. Mr. Greeley first met her at
the Graham House, an institution erected
| in New York by Professor Graham, the orr
| ginator of the bran-bread dietetic philoso-
| phv, and conducted on those very frugal
! principles. Miss Cheney was at that time a
| school teacher, and an ardent believer in the
vegetable and bran-bread system. Mr..
! Greeley was investigating the new philOso-
ply, and thus formed her acquaintance.
| lie pressed his suit to success, although he
| had to follow the object of his affections 10
| North Carolina, where she went to pursue
her school teaching. Fifteenth Of July,
| 1896, the Neir Yorker, which he edited, CON
/ tba fn1lou-inu uuorriapa notice
I'm Emmanuel Church, Warrenton, n.
| c.. on Tuesday morning, 9Th instant, by
| Rev. William Norwood, Mr.. Horace Greeley,
editor of the Nelo Yorker, to Miss Mary &.
| Cheney, Of Warrenton, formerly of this
city
Seven children blessed the marriage, OF
whom two alone remain-lda and Gabrielle.
A correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican says of Mrs. Greeley:
She had so long been an invalid, and in
such way, that the domestic happiness
which many men enjoy was denied both to
him and to her; but no part of his life has
been more honorable to him than his domes-
tic relations. In her youth and health she
had both beauty and grace, and that charm
of character which in greater degree We
call genius But this was Joined with
caprice, and seeming peryerslty OF nature
which. in ill-health and in the cares OF life,
! untitled her for some of the duties OF hei
position as the wife of great Journalist
and conspicuous public man. Whatever
resulted from this state of things was mel
by Mr.. Greeley with patient affection tol
the wife of his youth, the mother OF M
children, which inspired with respect al
who knew the story Of his household exist
ence
The Hon John A. Griswold died in Troy
n. Y. Oct 81. He was born in the town
Nassau, Rensselaer, county, n. T., IN l5l1
and when boy lived with his relative
General Wool lie was at first engaged IL
the wholesale drug business, but in 1877 be
came connected with the iron mills in tn
lower part of Troy, which under his man
agement have been enlarged to immens
proportions. The patents for this eountr
of the Bessemer steel process were owned D,
Mr.. Griswold, the merits of the inventor
being recognized by him from the first. In
election of Mr.. Griswold by the democrats.t
the mavoralty of Troy in 1855 was the be
ginning of his political career. In 1857 h
was nominated for Congress as a democrat
and was elected by 1887 majority. lie wa
a war democrat in Congress, and IN leo
was nominated by the republicans. lie wa
elected. and was re-nOminted and agai
elected in 1866. In 1868 he was nominate
for governor of New York, but was defeated
His business affairs during his illness hay
been under the care of his sons, one OF whol
married the Oldest daughter ofCol. LeGran
! b. Cannon, of this city.