Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-22
HAYES As A LOVER.

How He Wooed and Won Miss Lucy Ware
Washington Correspondence of the Boston Post.
1t IS nearly forty years since Rutherford
B. Hayes, q mere lad, visiting the town of
Chillicothe, Ohio, met his future wife. then
q little girl eight or ten years of age. It
was a boyish fancy on his part, but attrac-
ton Is SO Characteristic Of the Webb fami-
we're intimate with the family, say that the
charm which beguiled Rutherford has chung
to all her kindred. Mr.. Webb died about
1843. leaving the widow with two boys and
a girl to educate. A devoted mother at
once laid aside all thought of herself, and
resolved to spend the remainder of her days
in the development of her children. Joseph
and James were placed at the school at the
Wesleyan college in the town of Delaware,
Ohio, and thither Mrs. Webb removed
with her daughter. Delaware was at that
time the home also of Mr.. Hayes. The
boyisb fancy had not lost
any Of its charms. and,
though young, Hayes was now a man grown.
He still chung with affectionate regard to
the sweet face which met him in c%hildhood's
simplicity as he walked through the streets
of his native town. The Webb boys finished
their collegiate course, and now the daught-
er, budding into womanhood, must have her
share Of the polish and refinement Of the
education of the genler sex. Rev. DR..
aware, pointed out the Wesleyan Female
college at Cincinnati as the most admirable
of the female institutions of learning in the
west and so the mother and Sons removed to
that city, the latter studying for the medi-
cal profession, while the mother and her
daughter made their home in the college.
While she was here young Hayes, who had
entered the bar. also removed to Cincinnati
to practice his profession. Gen. r. B.
Mitchell and Congressman s. S. Cox both
related their recollections of the buoyant
and modest young man who boarded at the
same residence large house, kept by a
Mrs. Folsom-and how he was then striving
to build up a business and gain professional
fame. He had been in the city but a short
time VIXEN it seemed to him equal.
~ to be his duty to look after . partner
in life, and the one thought embolden.
ed him to call upon Miss Webb at the col.
lege. His card was handed to Miss Webb,
who had forgotten that she ever knew such
person as R B Hayes, and was still fur.
ther% convinced that there must be a mistake
Oh his part in sending for her. As she
came into the parlor, on the ground floor Of
the building, and saw MI. Hayes. she pro.
tested that he had made 4 mistake; that she
did not know him, and it was not necessary
to further explain why he had intruded
himself. A lawyer was not to be put down
with any such special pleading, and recalling
events Of twelve years past, he convinced
the young lady that if she did not remember
the visitor, 1t least he had the advantage Of
. multitude Of facts to prove that he had
known her from her very, childhood. And
many years took them both back to the be.
ginning, and she recognizing in his fdel-
ity the creation Of her wi charms, received
his devotion, and with it the ELECTION which
has nurtured it. While Mrs. Webb was
completing the arrangements for her daugh-
ter's Wedding the excellent bridegroom won
an important case in the courts, and the
happy couple found the course Of their love
running smoothly.