Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-24
NUMBER 81.
Aaron Burr ana Madam IumeI.


! Rev. John p. Gillever, d. D., furnish
/ es the New York Evangelist with an in
teresting historical and personal sketch Of
Aaron Burr, the particulars of which are
brought out by the recent death of Mrs.
Mary Whiting, at Binghamton, n. Y.
The following, relating to Aaron Burr's
marriage with Madam Jumel, will be
read with interest:
Another incident connected with Aaron
Burr has come to my knowledge in learn
ing the facts of Mrs. Writings life.
Nest of your readers have noticed the
MADAM Jumel case" which has been
in litigation so long in the United States
Courts. But many of them may not be
aware that this Madam Jumel was at ono
time the wife of Aaron Burr. She be-
came his wife in a very extraordinary
way. After his return from Europe in
his old age, disgraced and dreaded man,
Madam Jumel, then perhaps fifty years
of age, called at the Office on Nassau st.
/ in great style for those days, with her
carriage and liveried servants, to consult
| him, as the best authority in New York,
concerning her real estate, which was
very extensive. Burr treated her with
courtesy, of which he was II perfect mas
ter, and piled to his utmost his arts of
compliment and ilattery, through which
he had shared so many victims. Madam
Inpnal nnOApJinor 10 tha nf flA
times, had been very specifically edu-
Gated, and was the more easily duped by
such man rs Burr. She wns accompa-
MED by her nephew, in whose interest
Burr at once manifested tho most lively
concern. The two were fattered and ias-
cinated.
After few weeks Burr, though nearly
or quite eighty years of age, made pro-
posal of marriage to the wealthy widow.
He was refused. He manifested none of
the modification of Tilted swain, but
went on with his suit MS if nothing had
| happened. Madam Jumol was astonished
ut such love making. AT last he drove
up to her door one fine morning, bringing
n Clergyman with him, and declared he
had come to bo married. Madam was
! directed to prepare herself without any
unnecessary delay at the toilet, and fairly
overborne by mingled oourtesics and
commands, sho at last stood up by tho
side of her ancient beau and spoke tho
fatal words, while every door and window
] ,tn an, r,,,tl.,I ,,tith Ia, f,n -
dering household servants. Burr thus
became master of an immense amount of
property, with lady thrown in. They
started at once on wedding trip to Hart
ford, Conn. Madam was the owner OF
severa! shares in bridge, which was then
regarded wonderful investment. Tho
stock was in great demand. Burr per-
suadod her to sell il, and when the pro-
ceeds were brought to her she said, with
true wifoly submission, "Give it to my
husband"
The tradition is that Burr stuffed tho
bulky package of bills into his pocket and
sewed them in, or got his wife to. On
his return to New York he cooly depos-
tied the money to his own account in tho
bank, and soon after invested it in tho
locality of his carly dreams of treason and
conquest, the southwest. or course tho
money was never heard OF again. He
disposed of large sums subsequently in
the same manner, till mt last Madam .Ju-
mel, to save the remainder of her fortune,
was compelled to sue for u divorce on tho
ground of inhdelity. Burr's defenders
say tina; this was mere protoXt, and that
Burr's bad reputation was caused by Tho
false charges then made public. Unior-
tunately, his correspondence, much Of
which never came to the knowledge OF
his biographers, but which has passed
through the hands Of some of Mrs. Whit
ing's family, has been destroyed by them
out of regard to the innocent descendants
Of somo Of the implicated parties, con-
firms, and more than confirms, the public
impressions of the dissouteness Of this
bnd man. SO this wonderful Edwards
blood asserts itself in two distinct lines,
alike in ability, acumen and force, but
unlike rs angel from fend in every moral
trait and in every spiritual grace.