The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-09-25
Mr.. Bla,ne's Libel Suit.
PLAIN ANSWERS AS TO HIS MARRIAGE

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 0.-Inthe Blaine
libel suit i'll the District Court this after
noon, Mr.. Baine's attorneys filed the
following answers to the Undergraduates
propoIltded by The Sentinel's attorney on
| September 5:
| l. james q. Blaine. of Augusta. Maine,
ON oath. depose aud say, in answer to the
foregoing intorrogations
| /. Harriet t. Stanwood.
:. Georgetown, KY. in the spring of
1S4S.
! 3. l lived in Kentucky as assistant pro
Institute from january, 1913, To Decem.
Der. 1851. In lS4S and 1919 the Institute
was at Georgetown in 1850 at Blue Lick.
and in 1851 at Decennon Springs.
A. The lady l married lived in Kentucky
| from the spring of 1S4S to the spring of
1851, engaged as teacher in Colonel r. F.
Johnson's Female Seminary the first
| two years at Georgetown, the last year at
Milersburg.
.. l finally left Kentucky in the latter
part OF December. 1851, went to New
Orleans on business and thence directly
to Augusta, Me-, which place | reached on
February g.. 1852. and was next employed
as principal teacher in the PENNSYLVANIA
IHotlluGlOil lOI IIlo INSTRUCTION OF the
Blind in Philadelphia.
6. My wife left Kentucky in March,
1851, accompanied by myself as far as
Pittsburg. Penn; thence we 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, Me-, where met
her February 8. 1852.
MARRIED AT MILLERSBURG. KY, IN 1850.
I, s. and 8. l was married in Mllers-
burg, KY, on the 30th of June, 1850, in
the presence of Sarah G.. Stanwood and S.
T. Blaine. The marriage was secret.
Having doubt subsequently of its valid
lty under the laws of Kentucky, which
then Strlngently required license from
the Clerk of the County Court, had the
marriage solemnized second time in
Plttsburg. Penn, on the 29th of March,
1851. in the presence of John V. LemOyne
and David Bell.
10 and IL. Jacob StanwoOd was the
eldest brother of my wife. | had no ac-
quaintance with him at the time of my
marriage had never seen nor heard from
him in any way. directly or indirectly, bef
fore my marriage. Imet him the first time
in February had two letters from him
after my marriage-One warmly welcoIn-
ing me as II member of the family, THE
other inquirihg if he could promote jmy
business interests by the loan of mohey.
L had no Other correspondence of anyIkind
with him unnl | hatf personally MET him
in February. 1852. My wife dad two
brothers, neither of whom II had ever
met when 1 game 10 New England in
February, 1881
~, 10 and l4t My first child, son. was
born in the hohse of his grandmother on
the 1851. Hislname was Stanwood Blaine.
He lived with parents in 1852, 1858 and a
part of 1854 iIh Philadelphia. Z He died on
July 81. 1854, and was buried in the STAN
wood family ilot in Forest Grove Gene
terry, in Augusta, Maine.
DEFACINfG HIS SON s MONUMENT. -
Is, is and ~. A monument was placed
by my direSfion over his grave year af-
ter his DEATH, thus inscribed: ''Stanwood
Blaine. son of James G. and Harriet S.
Blaine. Born June Is, 1851 died July
81, 1854"
IS. | hafve not myself seen the stone
since the first week in July, bat have
reason to lbelieve, and do believe, that
since that date many letters and figures
thereon have been defaced and that the
figure !, ih the year 1851, has been entirely
removed have no means of ascertain
ing by whom this was done, but have rea
son to believe, and do believe, that pho
tograph WAS taken of the defaced stone by
the procurement of one the publishers of
The Ne,F Age, Democratic paper pub
lished irf this city, and that copies of said
photograph were sent to divers and sun.
dry PERSONS, including the publishers of
The Inh1aal,Gpolis Sentinel. defends ant of
this SUIT.
10, 2p. q and %. l know of the book
referred to as Life of James G.. Blaine. -
did pt revise the volume nor become in
any dtg gree responsible for any statement
made i'm it, though l saw parts of it before
its publication, but did not and have not
to this day seen page sixty eight, to which
the Gkestion refers, though the statement
theJlH made was doubtless derived by the |
aut1E, Russell II. Conwell, from CONVEX
sathH with me, but not from any special |
by me to make it.
JAMES. G.. BLAINE.
United States Of America,
District of Maine. s..
Before me, Winfield S. Choate, Commits
sio.ier Circuit Court of theUnited States,
ana for said district, personally appeared I
J;fnes G. Blaine, and subscribed and made
D. kh to the truth of the foregoing answers.
Witness my hand and official seal at
in said district, this 18th day of
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
lSeal. WINFIELD S. CHoATE.
of the Circuit Court of the