The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-12-25

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peat Here. It is enough. to say that
Mrs. Jackson was cruelty s1andered and
that this was one of'tAe causes of hel
death. She was not anxious to come to
Washington and once said to friend,
II assure you would rather be door
keeper in the house of my God, than
dwell in that palace in Washington.
Andrew Jackson dearly loved his
and there is tradition at the W
House that he never went to bed "
out taking 1ocket holding her pict
from his bosom, and propping it
against his Bible so that it would
the first bbject ttpot1 which, his Z,
Wo1lld rest ia the morning. ).
Andrew, jackson was the second
widower President; Jefferson came be
fore him, and after came, Martin Var
Buren,, John Tyler, and Chester Il
Arthur. -.
The 0niy bachelor President the coun.
trv has had is James Buchanan; who
respected the woman who jilted him:
when he was a young man; too much tx
ever marry another: =.
Martin Van Buren, was d green law
yer when he married his wife Hannah.
She was of good family and was only
a few months older tina in her husband:
The two had gone to school together as
children, and their engagement was
long one. They were married as soon
as Van Buren's law practice would wa
rant it. Their married life, like that }!
the Jeffersons, lasted only ten years.
When John Tyler married his first
wife he was twenty three years old, ard
she was twenty-five. He had long been
in love with her, and had courted her
for five years. "Still," says his son
General Tyler, "he never ventured to-
even kiss her hand until three weeks
before the marriage, when on his
last visit to her prior to the
John Tyler was at this TIM
Young lawyer, and he had already
served term or two in the Legisla-
ture. He was Governor T.Yler's sol
and his wife was one of the flowers of
the F. F. VS., She was an Episcopal
liam, and was a beautiful woman.
President Tyler's second wife was
Catholic. She lived with President
L oOAA''
and daughters.
President Fillmore was wool carder
and his wife was school teacher when
they fell in love. Both were poor, anc
Fillmore, after studying law and NOV
ing to Buffalo. did not see his affianced
vito for three years, because he was too
poor to pay the fare of the $50 miles
which lay between them. Mrs. Fill
more was two years older than her hus-
band, and she was twenty-eight years
old when their marriage took place.
She died in 1853 President Fillmore
survived her twcnty-one years, and
married the woman who it is said became
insane be fore she died Mrs. Fillmore
was preachers daughter, as we're also
Abigail Adams and Mrs. Frank Pierce.
She was the same age as Mrs.
Fillmore at the time of her mar
riage, and her groom was mem
Der of Congress when he married her.
Mrs Pierce vas somewhat like Mrs.
Hayes in the rigid pietv with which she
observed Sunday at the White house.
It was her custom to ask the employers
to go to church. She did not like society,
and she made the Executive Mansion,
as far as possible, a Christian home for
her family.
Mrs. Lincoln wore wedding ring
was engraved, Love is eternal" She
was Kentucky girl, who had gone to
live with sister at Springfield, III.
Here she met Lincoln, then young
lawyer, and the two were married, and
began life as boarders, paying for their
accommodations 81 week.
Eliza McCardle was seventeen years
old when she married young North
Carolina tailor who had settlsd in
Greenville, Tenn. His name was An
drew Johnson, and lie was just of age.
She possessed more learning than her
husband, aid the two worked together,
though she did not, as reported, teach
him his letters. When, after many
years, he became President. she was too
Ill to do the honors of the White House,
and her daughter took he, place.
Mrs. Julia Dent, President Grants
wife, comes of an old family, and her
great-grandfather was the Surveyor
General of Maryland. General Grant
met her at St. Louis, and was engaged
to her four years before he married her.
During this time the Mexican war in
tervened, and she vas twenty three
years old when her wedding took place.
Mrs. Hayes is Chillicothe girl.
President Hayes made love to her while
she was going to school at Cincinnati,
and married her after a two years
courtship.
General Garfield was also associated
with his wife during her school days
and there had been q long acquaintance
before their engagement in 1856.
Such is brief history Ct the loves of
the Presidents. AS far as we know
they seem to have been singularly hap
py IN their love affairs. But III war
rant you every one of them had his lit
tie skeleton in his matrimonial closet.
They had the same ups and downs in
their courtship as You and [ had.
! Martha Custus doubtless held up the
virtues of her first husband TO George
Washington. and am greatly mistak-
en- if she did not sometimes tell him
that she brought the money into the
family. More than one Of these wom-
Ell were Jealous of their husbands at
tentions to other women, and Tom JEFF
ferson, I doubt not, pranced up and
down his Monticello home many cold
night in scantv attire with a baby cry
ing IN his arms. After all men are
much alike when you strip them of
their every day regalia. and President
is nothing more to his wife than a coal
HEAVIER is to his.