The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-09-25
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All Questions Answered.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 20.-Mr. Blaine's
attorneys to-day fled answers to the in
tarrogatorles of the Sentinel, which were
filed September 8. These interrogsto-
ries were as follows:
THE nrERRoGAroRIEs.
/. What was the maiden name of
your Wife7
2. When and where did you make her
acquaintanceg
s. State whether you ever lived in the
state of Kentucky2 If 30, in what en-
pIoymenf yoR we're there employed and
at what place snc at what time yeu were
so Employed Il
4. State whether the person whom
You afterwards married lived in Ken
lucky at that time, at what employment
she was engaged and what place she was
30 engagede
STATE when you finally lett Kentucky
if YOU az sny time resided there; where
you went therefrom; where you were
next employed, and in what business or
calling?
6. II you answer that maiden name of
your wife was Harriet StanWOod; state
when she finally LETT Kentucky; where
she went; with when, and when and
where you next met her!
z. When and where were you married -?
8. Were you not married some time in
the month of March. 1857
8. Give date and place of your mar
riage, and the names of the persons be-
sides yourself and wife who were pres
ent on the occasion?
10. What acquaintance had you with
Jacob Stanwoud2
II. What relation, if any. is he to the
person you married, and what conversa-
ton or interview did you haYe with him
before said marriage, concerning same,
and where did such interview, if any,
occur, and what was said and done
thereinG
IL. Was not the first child of said mar
rage born on the 18th day OF June,
1852
10. What was the name, how long
did it live, and with whom?
II. When did said child die?
where was 1t buried, and if in any
any tombstone or monument erected
at grave of said child? Give date of
its birth and by whose directions was
such tombstone erected?
10. Was there any inscription on said
tombstone at the time of its erection, or
shortly thereafter? if so, give said in
scriptlon in words and figures the same
as was originally craven on said tomb
stone.
16. Did not said tombstone bear the
following inscription relative to the birth
OF said child: tStanwOOd Blaine, born
June IS, 1851 ?"
scrIptIon on said tombstone been erased
aInPo 70 aFonfinn2 Uhaf
tIons.
10. What acquaintance have you with
the book called "The Life of James G.
Blaine" written by Russell 81. Cornell,
with an Introduction by Gov. Robe of
Maine, and published by E. G. Allen
8 Co, Augusta, Maine, in the year
1884.
20. Were not proofs OF such work sub
miIted to you for revision?
81. Is not the statement made upon
the sixty-eighth page of said book as
follows: "Miss Stanwood, in March,
1851, became his wife at Pittsburg, Pa"
correct statement as to the time and
place OF your marriage?
%. Did not you communicate to the
author of said book, for his use in such
work the time and place of your marriage
as aforesaid?
THE ANSWERS.
To these interrogations Mr.. Blaine re-
spends as follows:
l, James G. Blaine, of Augusta, Maine,
on oath, depose and say in answer to the
foregoing heterogeneous:
!. Harriet B. Stanwood.
2. In Georgetown, Kentucky, in the
spring of 1S4S.
3. lived In Kentucky as an assistant
professor or tutor III the Western Mill
tsry institute from January, lS4S, to
December. 1851 in 1913 and 1S49 the
institute was at Georgetown; In 1850 at
Blue Lick in 1851 at Decsnnon Springs.
4. The lady married lived In Ken
lucky from the spring OF 1S4S to the
spring of 1851, engaged as a teacher in
Colonel T. r. Johnson's female semin-
town the last year at Miilersburg.
8. 1 finally left Kentucky in the latter
part of December 1851. Went 10 New
Orleans on business, and thence directly
to Augusta, Maine, which place reach
ed February 8, 1852, and was next en-
ployed as principal teacher in the Penn
sylVanfa institution for the instruction
of the blind in Philadelphia.
6. My wife left Kentucky in March,
1851 accompanied by myself as far as
PittsbuTg, Pa; thence travelled alone to
New York, where she was met by her
brother, Jacob Stanwood, and under his
protection proceeded to her mothers
residence in Augusta, Maine, where l
next met her February 8, 1852.
z, 8 and 0. was married in MillerS
burg, Kentucky, on the 30th of June,
1850, in the presence of Sarah q. Stan
wood and s. L Blaine. The marriage
was secret. Having doubt subsequently
OF it's validity under the laws of Ken
lucky, where they stringrntly require
license from the clerk of the county
court, had the marriage solemnized
second time in Pittsburg, Pa, on the
18th of March, 1851, in the presence of
John V. Lemoyne and David Bell.
10 and II. Jacob Stanwood was the
Oldest brother of my wife. had no &C
quaintance with HIM at the time of my
marriage, and had meyer seen him nor
heard from him in any way, directly or
Indirectly before my marriage. met
him for the first time In February, 1852.
l had two letters from him after my
marriage and before I met him, one
warmly welcoming me as q member of
the family, and the other inQuIring If he
could promote my business interests by
the loan OF money. / had no other cor
respondence of any kind until after l
had personally met him IN February,
1852 My wife had two other brothers,
neither of whom had ever met when /
came to New England In February,
1852, nor did ever meet any male rela-
tives of my wife before nay arrival in
New England In February, 1852.
10, ID and IA. My first child, a 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 to 1854
and was buried In the StanwOod family
lot IN Forest Grove cemetery, Augusta,
Maine.
10. 10 and II. A monument was placed
by my direction over his grave q year
after his death, thus inscribed: ''Stan-
wood Blaine, son Of James G. and Har-
net s. Blaine. Born June 10, 1851.
Died July 81, 1854"
-1e. 1 have not myself seen the stone
since the first week in July, but have
reason to believe, and do believe, that
since that date many letters and figures
thereon have been defaced, and that the
figure in the year 1851 has been entirely
removed. / have no means Of ascertain
ing by whom this was done, but have
reason TO believe, and do believe, that q
Photograph was taken of the deiaced
stone by the procurement of one
Of the publishers of The
INC" ago. democratic p6D0I
published in this city, and that copies of
said photograph were sent to divers and
sundry persons, including the publisher
OF the Indianapolis Sentinel, defendant
of this suit
10, 20. 81 and %. know the book re-
terred to as the life of James G. Blaine.
did not revise the volume, nor become
in any degree responsible for any state
ment made 10 1t, though saw parts of
It before the publication, but did not,
and have not to this day seen page sixty
eight, TO which the question refers,
though the statement there made was
doubtless derived by the author, Russell
II. Connell, from conversation with me,
bat not from any special authorization
by me to make it.
ISignedl JAMES G. BLAINE
United States of America, District of
Maine, ss--BefOre me. Winfield s.
Choate, Commissioners of the circuit
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