The Rock Island Argus., 1883-02-12
WIVES OF Pres 1DENr HUNTERS

/ was talking yes terday to a member OF
| congress from Indi ana, who said "Joe
Mcdonald has fine looking wife, who is
| particularly the admIration of the ladies,
who love to see her white hair. The wo-
men are all diving to have their hair turn
white, so it will not fall out and make them
resemble Marie Antoinette Mrs. Nc
Donald, continued this person, is beau
tiful, but think she knows it. McDon-
aid is fine old fellow, but he has not had
the best luck with his children. One of
his boys takes the law into his own hands
| sometimes Indeed, good many of the
sons of senators and members GO astray.
There was Andre Johnson's son who had
to be sent TO the lunatic asylum for drunk
enness. Jim Nye's son used to whip his
wife; and he became bar keeper in
Washington.
Said 1: Mrs. Hendricks must be very
much disgusted to see Mrs Mcdonald get
ting past herin the race for the White
House?"
o, that is the sore point" said my
friend. Il think 1t was that prod which
caused Hendricks TO exclaim in audible
pala that he would not be made an attach
ment to another mans campaign for the
presidency. Mrs. Hendricks is a very
ambitious woman, and mot having children,
she has thrown her heart into seeing her
husband reach the most eminent position.
Indeed if Hendricks lad ever become
president. he would have been very much
beloved by both parties In office he is
more of a man than when seeking it. All
his errors have been trying to make an
office; but after he gets in he does very
well. His honesty nobody has questioned
His nature is mild; he is chivalric toward
his political opponents, and after he has
taken the oath of Office his sense of duty
seldom makes him commit an error. I'm
fortunately he trims when there is an ap
parent probability of his having a great
chance. and it is the trimming and not the
core of the man that gets the criticism
Hendricks was the only man in Indiana
who was decorated with the rage of
Governor Morton Morton instinctively
saw capacity to acquit himself well in office
in Hendricks and when at one time it look
ed as if the nomination was going to drop
to Hendrieks-at the time Hayes got it
Morton could net contain himself but be-
gan to make the widest personal attacks
on Hendricks, who was netted enough to
respond ia kind"
[ have heard an intimation in Waahing-
ton that Mrs. Pendleton IS also an ambi-
tious woman; but ! suppose that could be
said of the wife of any man of talent who
stood within the boreal influence of the
Presid -ncy. Mrs. Pendleton now has a
beautiful home, and her acquaintance with
public society extends over period of
probably third of a century. Sine was
married to George Pendleton on the ID of
June, 1916, and, if she was at that time Is |
years old, she would nowsbe about 81. |
possess an old book which gives the gene |
alogy of her family. and she bears a large /
number # their family names in her own
Her full name is Mary Lloyd Alicia N vel |
Key. Her mother also had three prenoms,
oei-g Mary Taylor Lloyd Key. You may
ike to have little genealogical informa-
ton on this subject. Edward Lloyd,
Puritan, and not d Cavalier, who would |
not worship according to the established I
church of Virginia, was driven out of that /
state and settled near Annapolis in the +
year 1850 1t is quite probable that he or
MS figured in the battle near Annapolis to
put down Lord Baltimore's government
md alter the character of the colony from
Catholic to a Puritan and PRESBYTERIAN
,ne, that colony remained, with modifi-
;ations, To the revolutionary war.-Co7res-
'oRdence Cincinnati Enquirer.