Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-12-25

peat here. II is enough tc say thai
hlrs. jackson was cruelty slandered anf
that this was one Of the causes of her
death. She was not anxious to come 6,
Washington and once said 10 a friend.
1 assure you | would rather be a door
Keeper in the house of my God, thar
dwell IN that palace in Washington
andrew Jackson dearly loved his wife
and there is a tradition at the White
House that ne never went TO bed with.
out taking a locket holding her picture
from his bosom, and prppping it ~
against his Bible so that it would b,
the first object upon which lis eye,
would rest in the morning.
Andrew Jackson was the SECOND
wldower President, jefferson came be
fore him, and after earns Martin Var
Buren,, John Tyler, and Chester A
Arthur.
The only bachelor President the coun.
try has had is James Buchanan, who
respected the xomau WHO Tilted him
when he was a young man, too much tC
ever marry another.
Martin Van Buren, was a green law
yer when he married his wife Hannah.
She was Of good family and was only
a few months older than her husband.
The two had gone to school together as
children, and their engagement was a
long one. They were married az soon
as Van Buren's law practice would war.
rant 1t. Their married life, like that OF
the Jefrersons, lasted only ten years.
When John Tyler married his FIRST
wife lie was twenty three years old, and
she was twenty-five. He had long been
IN love with her, and had codrted 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
wedding he contaminated this act.
John Tyler was at this time
a young lawyer, and he had already
served term or two in the Legisla-
ture, He was Governor Tyler's son.
and his wife was one of the flowers of
the +. +. VS., She was an Episcopal
lian,. and was a beautiful woman.
President Tyler's second wife was a
Catholic. She lived with President
Tyler seventeen years, and had soma
and daughters.
President Fillmore was a wool carder
and his wife was a school teacher when
they fell in love. Both were poor, and
Fillmore, after studying law and NOV
ing to Buffalo. did not see his affianced
wife for three years, because he was too
poor to pay the fare Of the $50 miles
which lay between them. Ms. 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 1858. President Fillmore
survived her twenty-one years, and
married the wOmau who it is said became
INSANE IL fore she died. Mrs. Fillmore
was n preachers daughter, as were also
Abigail Adams and Mrs. Frank Pierce.
She was the same age IA Mrs.
Fillmore at the time Of her mar
riage, and her groom was a mem
Der OF Congress when he married her.
Mrs, Pierce was somewhat like Mrs.
Hayes in the rigid piety with which she
observed Sunday at the White house.
1t was her custom TO ask the employers
to go TO church. She lid not Iikesocietv,
aud she made the Executive Mansion.
as far as possible, q Christian home for
her family.
Mrs. Lincoln wore q wedding ring
given her by the President, in which
"a engraved, Love is eternal" She
was a Kentucky girl, who had gone to
live with a sister at Springfield, Ill.
Here she met Lincoln, then a young
lawyer, and the two we've married, and
began life as bOarders, paying for their
accommodations 81 week.
Eliza McCardLe was seventeen years
Old when she married a young North
Carolina tailor who had settled in
Greenville. Tenn. His name was An
drew Johnson, and lac was just of age.
She possessed more learning than her
husband, and 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 her 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 wal in.
terveued. and she was twenty-three
years old when her wedding took place.
Mrs. Hayes is "a 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 a long acquaintance
before their engagement in 1856.
Such is a brief history Cf the loves OF
the Presidents. As far as we know
they seem to have been singularly hap
by IN their love affairs. But III war
rant you every one of them had his lit
tie skeleton in his matrimonial closet.
They had tine same ups and downs in
their courtship as you and / had.
Martha Custus doubtless held up the
virtues of her first husband 10 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-
en- we're jealous of their husbands at
%tentiOns TO other wolaen, and Tom JEFF
ferson, / doubt not, pranced up and
down his Monticello home many a cold
night in scanty attire with a baby cry
ing III his arms. After oil men are
much alike when you strip them OF
their every day regalia, and a President
is nothing more to his wife than a coal
HEAVIER is to his.