Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-16
the FAMILY OF BlAINES.
A Glance at the Family Circle and
its Military Son-in-Law.
A Household That Can Comfortably Fill the
White House il the People will it,
Characteristics Of the Maine
People, Including Gail
Hamiltoa.
From, a Rgs6ipJio. Lsgsr,

Mr.. Blaine with his wife and six children,
will Gll the White House comfortably when
thew get there, and the junior members Of
the family have lived at Washington SO
long that it is more of home to them than
Augusta. The eldest sou, Emmons Blaine,
did not return home after finishing college,
and has lived in the West at st. Paul and
Chicago. where he STUDIED and has practiSed
law. The second son, Walker Blaine, has
also studied law. and until week ago was
an assistant counsel on the part of the
United States before the Court of Alabama
Claims. He was an assistant to his father
while the latter was Secretary of State, and
accompanied Mr.. Prescott on the special
mission TO Peru in the fall Of ISL. The
third sou
Young Jimmy Blaine,
is draper miSchievouS youth of sixteen,
who rejOiCeS in dudiSh coats, collars and
trousers of the latest cut, and always kept
up constant excitement i'll the boys prep
aratorv school which he attended in Wash
house Blaine the eldest, Alice Stanwood
Blaine married Col John Coppinser, Of
the army, over year ago and the MONDAY
ceremony in the great mansion on Dupont
circle was one Of the chief social events i'll
that season of great weddings. Mrs. Cop
pirger was always quite MAIDEN Of re-
firing disposition and cared nothing for the
gay society Of the capital, and felt all of the
burden and none of the compensations
during the months that her father position
as Secretary of State obliged her to take
busy part in routine duties ofoificial society.
She had a sweet, grave face, with black eyes
and hair. and hv careless arrangement Of
the locks ON her forehead concealed the
mark Of the accidental bullet BY which she
so nearly lost her life while carelessly hand,
linz a revolver Ii was while visiting
friends at Fort LevenNorth that she became
acquainted with Col. COPpinger, and they
were married within wear after first under
going the most strenuous opposition from
herpareuts.
Col. Coppinger is an Irishman
by birth. Catholic and once a member of
the Pope's Guards. He came to this
country at the beginning of the last war,
and after four years OF volunteer service
was given a commission in the regular army
Col and Mrs. Coppinger went Immediately
to Fort Leaycuworth after their marriage
and returning to Washington last Deem
Der brought with them their infant son,
James Gillespie Blaine Coppinger. Mrs,
Coppinger remained all winter with her
parents and only month ago joined her
husband at his new post, Fort Assiniboine,
in the northeastern corner of Montana.
Mr. and Mrs. Blaine were so much at
tened to this first grandson that they urged
Mrs. Coppinger not TO expose the little fel-
low to the Inconvenience of the long rail
road and stage journey to the frontier gar
risOn. and the baby was accordingly left
with Mrs. Blaine for the summer. The
second ufthe Blaine daughters is Miss Mar
garet. a tall, rather daShing girl, who is
fond Of her stunning Paris dresses and de
voted to dancing and gay society. She has
such dark hair and eyes, such prominent
nose and strongly marked features as to be
often taken for jeweSS. Miss Margaret
Blaine went abroad with Mr.. and Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid three wears ago, and remain
ad at school in Paris until last fall, when
she came home and made her debut III
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