The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-01-16
AAROY BURR'S WIVES.
Some Facts in the Matrimonial HistO-
FJOra Brilliant AdTentureF.

The revival Of the celebrated Jumel
will case, which for many years has
been dragging its slow length through
the New York courts. naturally re-
calls the name and history of the man
who figures as the second husband of
the woman whose property now bids
fair to be swallowed up in the nav of
the legal profession.
1t was while commanding his regi-
ment i'm New Jersey during the early
years of the revolutionary war, that
Col. Burr made the aequsintance Of
the lady who afterWard because his
first wife and the mother of that in
comparable daughter, whose genius
and fidelity have almost redeemed
her fathers fame. Mrs. TneOdosia
Provost was then the wife OF Col. Pre-
vOst, Of the British army, at that time
in the West indies. She resided at
Paramus, with her mother and sister
and her two sons, the latter sprightly
little fellows, whose vivacity could
not be other than attractive to a man
so passiOnately fond of bright chill
dren as Burr was till the day Of his
death. Mrs. Provost was ten wears
older than the young officer whom
she captIvated by her rare grace and
culture, but neither the difference in
age, nor the absence of beauty less
en- her charms in his estimation. Her
family-the De Niennes-was of
French or Swiss origin, aud she her
self was the first WOH44r-edueated in
accordance with the European stand
ard whom Burr had ever met. She
Nhnwnrrr-f.1vv rvnrs3a1 - H.
erature Of the day, and undoubtedly
did much toward forming the taste
and shaping the intellectual develop
ment of an admirer who, above all
other things in the world, appreciated
brains-partiCularly when lodged in
a female head. Her manners are
represented to have heen the perfec-
tiOn of elegance and refinement, and
long after she had been meFeifuliy ia
ken away from the evil to come, Burr
was accustomed Ia say that if his own
manners were in any respect superior
to those Of men in general, It was Ow-
ing to the inSensibie influence Of hers.
MRS. PROVOST.
We have said that Burr was an adj
mirer of Mrs. Provost, but there is
not the slightest reason to suppose that
the admiration ever went beyond the
bounds Of strict prOpriety, or that her
behavior WAS in any respect uuwOr-
thy the position she occupied. Bat
when, not long after their iIrSt mrrI-
ing, Col. PrevO>i .ilr'!, a. = prvu. T.,
that the mutual self-resIrain gradu-
ally began to disappear; for We know
that when Burr resigned from the
army in 17IS, they were engaged To
be married. Both were poor. and let
it be remembered ~ slight atone
ment for his many Subsequent trans
gressiOns, that Burr deliberately mar
ried for affection, and not money. He
was young, handsome, and brilliant;
he had come out of the war with q
splendid record for bravery and mill
tary skill; he had begun the practice
CT law under the most flattering aus
pices; he was universally regarded as
a rising man whose future could not
fail to be glOriOus-and with these
recommendation he might easily
have wOOrd and won younger and
lovelier bride, who would have
brought him the influence of her fam-
lily as well as the more tangible bless-
ing an ample fortune.
Burr was admitted to the bar Jan.
10, l7S2, and on the | of July fDlluw-
ing he marrie.i Mrs. Prevust-sle be,
ing then thirty-Si Years old, aud ht
twenty-six. The pair took up their
residence at Albany, wheIe-June .,
was born. As far as
we are able to ju1 -, the union was,
from first to last, a happy one. We'd
ded to the woman he loved, surround
ed by the pGrest and tenderest assO-
Citations, with no cause for anxiety
present or prospective, and with ey-
erythiDg to stimulate his ambition
and crafty his wishes-the next
twelve years were by far the best aud
brightest Of Burr's long and varied Ca
Teer. How he must have looked back
to these years from the gloomy stand
point Of that latter period, when
there could hardly be found in the
whole country q dozen persons who
dared to call themselves his friends
Mrs. Burr, died Of cancer in the
spring Of l79l-in time to escape the
abuse and ignOminy which were des-
tined SC sOUn to blast her husbands
name forever. When the grave OPEN
ed for her, BuTr's star was high in
the heavens; ten years aiterwaId il
set in internal night on the nights of
WeehawSen. The bullet which kill
ed Hamilton annihilated Burr.
RETSEY BOWEN.
Eliza, or Betsy, Bowen after
wards Madam JumeI and the second
Mrs. Burr-was b1rn, IL is said, in
Providence, about the year l775.
Her mother was a prostitute, and the
daughter seems to have followed, for
4 time at least, the same profession