Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-27
WHITE HOUSE SUPrIALS.
Previous Marriages I'm the Executive
Mansion.

| Apropos of Nellie Grants wedding
the Nelo York Herald furnishes the fol
lowing account of previous marriages
in the White House:
The first marriage at the White
House was in the year 1920, when Mis-;
Maria Monroe, youngest daughter Of
President Monroe, was married to hel
cousin, Samuel Il. Gouverneur, of New
York, private secretary of the Presi
dent. Mr.. Monroe had married soor
after the Revolution Miss Elizabeth
fortnight, of the city of New York, q
very beautiful woman. Her sister, also &
belle, married Nicholas Gouverneur. an
eminent merchant Of that city, of HUI
guenot descent. AT the time of the
marriage with Miss Monroe Mr.. Sam.
uel l.. Gouverneur was twenty years OF
age, very handsome and very opulent
Miss Monroe was seventeen, and had
been educated in Paris, and was en-.
dowed with the hereditary beauty and
grace of the Kortrights. Her elder
sister, Eliza, was educated at Mime
Campan's famous school In Paris
where she was the associate and friend
of the beautiful Hortense Beauharnais
subsequently Queen of Holland and
mother of Napoleon the Third. Eliza
Monroe married the Hon. George Hay,
of Virginia, and their daughter, Hor.
tensia, named for the Queen of Hol.
land, beautiful girl, married Lloyd
Nicholas Rogers, OF Baltimore, the IN
heritor of that superb estate Druid
HILL" now SO widely admired as Druid
Hill Park.
The marriage of Miss Monroe and
Mr.. Gouvernehr was private. The
members of the Cabinet were not in
vited. Only the relatives and personal
friends of the two families were present
They were married in the oval recep-
ton room, and, as we are informed by
Mrs. Gouverneur, OF Washington,
stood upon the figure of the American
eagle worked in the French carpet that
covered the floor of the apartment
The east room, in those days, was used
as a play-room by the children. Mr..
Corcoran, the Washington banker, re-
members it in Madison's time as
roughly plastered with the cross marks
of the trowel everywhere visible on the
walls and furnished with a few old
chairs with dilapidated seats. 1t re-
manned in this shabby condition under
Mr.. Monroe and Mr.. Adams, and was
first completed and furnished during
Gen. Jackson's first term, about forty
five years ago.
The cost of lighting the reception
rooms at the White House with wax
candles in MIR. Monroe's time was 500
a night. Twelve wood fires were re-
quired IN winter to warm the apart
ments occupied by the family.
The marriage ceremony of Miss Mon
roe and Mr.. Gouverneur was per-
formed by Rev. DR.. Hawley, of st.
Johns Church. He was of the old
school and wore knee breeches and
shoe buckles. In the war of 1872 he
commanded a company of divinity
students in New York, enlisted for the
protection of the city. Being ordered
to the frontier, he refused to 60 and re-
signed his commission. Some people,
in derision, styled him Capt. Haw-
ley" Decatur would not attend his
church, because she refused to obey
orders"
THE DAYS OF JACKSON.
The second marriage In the White
House was in 1888, during the admin
isration of Gen. jackson. Maj. VIII
liam B. Lewis, of Tennessee, was
among the most prominent of the
friends of Gen. Jackson, who, as far
back as 1923, began to urge his claims
upon the Presidency. On Gen. Jack
sons Inauguration In March, 1929,
Maj. Lewis and his family took up
their residence at the White House,
and there, about four years afterward,
his daughter, Della Lewis, was mar
ried to Monsieur Alphonse de Pageot,
then Secretary of the French Legation
and afterwards Minister from France.
The marriage ceremony was performed
by the Rev. DR.. Matthews, of st. Pat
rick's Church, who was for many years
a patriarch among the Catholic clergy
of this diocese. The diplomatic corps,
the members Of the Cabinet and few
personal friends and relatives were in
vited.
About a year afterward Nine. Pageot
gave birth to a son, to whom was given
the baptismal name of Andrew Jack
son. This child was christened at the
White House, Gen. jackson being
present When DR.. Matthews address
ing the infant, after the custom of his
Church, pronounced the words, AN
drew jackson, do you renounce the
devil and all his works." The General
to the establishment of the company,
replied in a loud voice, Il do, most in
dubitably."
DIR. Matthews, in relating this anec-
dote, used to say that his gravity was
almost overcome by this strange coRtre-
temps, and that it was only with an ex-
IRENE effort he could prevent himself
from exploding with laughter, notwith-
standing the solemnity of the occasion.
Pageot was Louis Philippe's last
Minister to America. His wife died in
1867 and was buried in Avignon, her
friend and neighbor in Washington,
Mr.. J. G. Taylor, being accidentally
present at her funeral in the Cathedral
(which was opposite his hotel, to which
he was attracted by the chanting of the
priests and the procession of the Sisters
of Charity.
THE THIRD WEDDING IN THE WHITE
HOUSE.
Miss Elizabeth Tyler, third daughter
of the President, was married in the
East Room January 81, 1912, in the
nineteenth year If her age, to Mr..
Waller, of Virginia. The following
account of the ceremony was given in
a letter addressed by Mrs. Robert Ty-
Ter daughter of Cooper, the tragedian,
and daughter-in-law of the President)
to some friends in Philadelphia
WASHINGTON, February, 1912.
Lizzie has had quite grand we'd
ding, although the intention was that
it should be quiet and private. This,
under the circumstances, though, was
found impossible. The guests consist
ed of Mrs. Madison, the members of
the Cabinet, with their wives and
daughters, the foreign Ministers near
the Government and some few personal
friends, outside of the family and their
relatives.
"Lizzie looked surprisingly lovely In
her wedding dress and long blonde
lace veil, her face literally covered with
bushes and dimples. She behaved re-
markablv wall too ANY nuanfitv Of