St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-21
BLAINE SWEARS
On the Question of His Double Mar
riage and Family Affairs.
Responses to the Questions PrOpounded by
the Indianapolis Sentinel.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 2O.-Mr.
Blaine's attorneys to-day filed an answer to
the interrogatories of the Sentinel, which
were filed September 5. These interrogatories
were as follows: 1
What was the maiden name of your
wife?
2-When and where did you make her ac-
quaintance!
3-State whether you ever lived in the state
of Kentucky2 If so, in what employment were
you there employed, and at what place and
at what time were you so employed?
State whether the person whom you
afterwards married lived in Kentucky at that
time, in what employment she was engaged
and at what place. she was so engaged.
State when you finally left Kentucky if
you at any time resided there, where you
went there from, where you were next en-
ployed and in what business or calling.
eff you answer that the maiden name
of yeur wife was Harriet Stanwood, state
when she finally left Kentucky, where she
went, with whom, and where you next met
her.
When and where you married herl
S-Were you not married some time in
the month of March 1851?
Give date and place of your marriage,
and the names OF persons, besides yourself
and wife, who were present on the occasion.
10-What acquaintance had you with
Jacob Stanwood?
11-What relation, if any, was he to the
person you married, and what conversation
or interview did you have with him before
said marriage, concerning the same, and
where did such interview, If any, occur, and
what was said and done, therein!
12-Was not the first child of said mar
rage born the 18th day of June, 1852
13--What was the namea How long did
it live and with whoml
14-When did said child diea Where was
it buried, and if in any cemetery give name
of cemetery.
15-Has any tombstone or monument been
erected at the grave of said childa Give date
of its birth, and by whose directions such
tombstone was erected.
16-Was there any inscription on said
tombstone at the time of its erection or
shortly after? Give said inscription in words
and figures as the same was originally craven
on said tombstone?
ibid not said tombstone bear the fol-
lowing inscription relative to the birth of
said child: ''Stanwood Blaine. Born June
Is, 1852"
1S-Has any portion of said inscription
on said tombstone been erased since its cree
ton! If so, what portion!
19-What acquaintance have you with a
book called ''The Life of James G. Blaine, -
written by Russell A. Conwell, with an in
PRODUCTION by Gov. ROBBIE, of Maine, and
published by E. G. Allen 81 Co., Augusta,
Me-, in the year 1ss4l
20-Were not the proofs of such work sub
mitted to you for revision!
21-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, Pennsylvania, correct
statement as to time and place of your mar
riagel
22-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
To these interrogatories Mr.. Blaine re-
spends as follows:
BLAINE's ANSWER.
/, James G. Blaine, of Augusta, Me-, de-
poses and says,in answer to the foregoing in
terrogatories:
Harriet B. Stanwood.
2-In Georgetown, KY, in the spring of
1S4S.
81 lived in Kentucky as assstan
professor, or tutor, in the Western Military
institute from January, 1S4S, to December,
! 1851; in 1913 and 1S49 the institute was at
| Georgetown, in 1850 at Blue Lick, in 1851 at
DrennOn Springs.
4-The lady 1 married lived in Ken
lucky from the spring of 1S4S to the spring
of 1851, engaged as a teacher in Col. T. f.
Johnson's female seminary. The first two
years at Georgetown, the last year at Millers-
burg.
81 finally left Kentucky in the latter
part of December, 1851, went to New Orleans
on business and thence directly TO Augusta,
Maine, which place l reached February Q,
| 1852, and was next employed as principal
teacher in Pennsylvania institution for the
| instruction of the blind in Philadelphia.
| 6-My wife left Kentucky in March, 1851,
accompanied by myself as far as Pittsburg,
Pa, thence travelled alone to New York,
where she was met by her brother, Jacob
Stanwood, and under his protection pro-
ceeded to her mothers residence in Augusta,
Me-, where / next met her, February 9, 1852.
Z, 8, 81 was married in Millersburg, KY,
on the Both of June, 1850, in the presence of
Sarah c. Stanwood and S. L. Blaine. The
marriage was secret. Having doubt subse-
| quently of its validity under the laws of
Kentucky, which then stringently required a
| license from the clerk of the county court,
I had the marriage solemnized a second
/ time in Pittsburg, Pa, on the 29th of March,
1851, in the presence of John V. Lemoyne
and David Bell.
Jacob Stanwood was the eldest brother OF
my wife. / had no acquaintance with him
at the time Of my marriage, and had never
seen him or heard from him in any way di-
rectly OF indirectly before my marriage. l
met him for the first time in February 1882
l had two letters from him after my MARI
age and before / met him-one warmly vel
coming me as a member of the family, the
other enquiring If be could promote my bust
ness interests by a loan of money. / had NO
other correspondence of any kind until after
had personally met him il February, 1852.
Nv wife had two other brothers, neither OF
whom had ever met when came to New
England in February, 1852, nor did 1 ever
meet any male relatives of my wife before
my arrival in New England in February
1852.
IL, 13, Any first child was born in the
house Of his grandmother 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 Stan
wood family lot in Forest Grove cemetery,
Augusta, Ne.
Is, Is, IA monument was placed By
nv direction over his grave year after his
death, thus inscribed: 'Stanwood Blaine,
son OF James g. and Harriet S. Blaine,
born June IS, 1851, died July 81, 1S54.''
Isl have not myself, seen the stone
the first week in July, but We have reason tc
believe, and do believe, that since that date,
many letters and figures thereon have been
defaced, and that the figure I in the veal
1851 has been entirely removed / have nc
- L.