The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-21
THOSE Observation-Disclosures.
Answered in Detail. Under Oath, b,
James G.. Blaine.

INDIANAPOLIS, September 20.-In the
Blaine libel suit in the district court
this afternoon Blaine's attorneys filed
the following answer to the interrog-
atories propounded by the SsntinePs at
torneys on September 9Th: ~, James
G. Blaine, of Augusta, Maine,
on oath do depose and say. in
answer to the foregoing inter
rogatories. Hrst-Harriet 3. Stanwood.
Sscopd-In Georgetown, Ky. in the
spring of 184S. Third lived in Ken
lucky as an, assistant professor, or
tutor, in the Western Military institute,
from January, 1913, to December, 1851.
In 1S48 and 1Si9 the institute was at
Georgetown; in 1850 at Blue Lick; in
1851 at Drennon's Springs. Fourth
The lady married lived in Kentucky
from the spring of 1348 to the spring o
1850, engaged as teacher in Colonel
T. F. JOhnson's female seminary, the
first two years at Georgetown, the last
year at Millsburg. Fifth finally left
Kentucky in the latter part of Decem-
Der, 1851, and went TO New Orleans
on business, and thence directly to
Augusta, Me-, which place l reached
February 9th, 1852, and was next en-
ployed as principal teacher in the Penn
| sylvania Institution for the Instruction
My wife left Kentucky in March; 1851,
accompanied by myself as far as Pitts
burg, Pa, thence she travelled alone to
New York, where she was met by her
brother, Jacob Sherwood, and under his
protection proceeded to her mothers
residence at Augusta, Me-, where l
next joined her, February 9th, 1852.
Seventh, eighth and NINTH was mar
ried in Millersburg. KY, on the 30th of
June, 1850, in the presence of Sarah C.
StanWood and s. L. Blaine; the marri-
age was secret; having doubts subse
| gently of the validity of the marriage
under the laws of Kentucky, which
then stringently required a license from
the clerk of the county court, had
the marriage solemnized a second timein
| Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th of March, 1851,
in the presence of John v. Lamoyne and
David Bell. Tenth and eleventh-Jacob
Stanwood was the Oldest brother of my
wife; had no acquaintance with him
at the time of my marriage; had never
seen him or heard of him in any way,
directly or indirectly, before my mar
riage; met him for the first time in
February, 1852; had two letters from
him after my marriage, and before l
met him, one warmly welcoming me rs
member OF the family, the other in
quiring if he could promote my business
interests by the loan of money; l had
no other correspondence of any kind
until after had personally met him in
| February, 1852; my wife had two other
| brothers, neither of whom / had ever
met. when I came to New England, in
February, 1852, nor did | ever
meet any male relations of my wife
before my arrival in New England in
February, 1852. Twelfth, thirteenth
and fourteenth-My first child, son,
was born in the house of his grand
mother, on the 18th day of June, 1851;
his name was Stanwood Blaine; he lived
with his parents in 1852, 1858 and part
of 1854, in Philadelphia, died July 81,
1854, and was buried in the Stanwood
lot, in Forest Green cemetery, Augusta,
Me. Fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth-A monument was placed by my
direction over his grave, year after
his death, thus inscribed, "Stanwood
Blaine, son OF James G. and Harriet S
Blaine, born June 18th, 1851, died July
31st, 1854. Eighteenth have not
week in July, but have reason to be-
date many letters and figures thereon
have been defaced, and that the figure l
in the year 1851 has been entirely re-
moved; have no means of ascertain
ing by whom this was done, but have
reason to believe, and do believe, that a
/ photograph was taken of the defaced
stone by the procurement of one of the
publishers of the NeiO Age, Democra-
tic paper published in this city, and that
copies OF said photograph were sent to
divers and sundry persons, in
Guiding the publishers of the Indiana
polls Sentinel, the defendant in this suit.
Nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and
twenty-second-I know the book re-
ferred to as the life of James G..
Blaine;;" l did not revise the volume,
nor become in any degree responsible
for any statement made in it, though l
saw parts of it before its publication, but
l did not, and have not to this day, seen
page 68, to which the question refers,
though the statement there made was
doubtless derived by the author, Rofell
II. Connel, from conversations with me,
but not from any special authorization
by me to make it.
(Signed) JAMES G. BLAINE.
UNITED States of America, district of
Maine, s. s..
Before me, Winfield S. Choat, COM
missioner of the circuit court of the
United States in and for said district.
personally appeared James G. Blaine,
and subscribed and made oath TO the
truth of the foregoing answer.
Witness my hand and official seal, at
Augusta, in said district, this 18th day
of September in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty
four.
(Signed) WINFIELD S. CHoAT,
Commissioner of the court of the
United States for the district of Maine.
Collision on the a., t. e S. F.