The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-09-25
That Mysterious Marriage.


That Mysterious Marriage.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, September 90
In the Blaine libel suit in the Distric
Court this afternoon Blaine's attorney:
filed the following answers to the inter
rogatories propounded by the Sentinel
attorneys on the 5th of September:
1, James G. Blaine, of Augusta, Me.
on oath, depose and say in answer to the
foregoing interrogatories:
LIST. Harriet B. Stanwood.
I'd. Georgetown, KyY IN the spring O
'1S4S.
Sd. | lived in Kentucky as assistant
professor or tutor iu the Western Military
Institute from January, l84S, to Decem
Der, 1851. Iu 1S4S and 1849 the institute
was at Georgetown in 1850 at Blue Lick
and in 1851 at Duncan, now Springs.
4th. The lady married lived in Ken
lucky from the spring of 184S to the
spring of 1851 engaged as teacher II
Col. I. Johnson's female seminary; The
first two years at Georgetown and the las
year at Millersburg.
9Th. I finally left Kentucky in the lat
ter part of December, 1851, and went tc
New Orleans on business, aud thence
direct to Augusta, Maine, which place
reached February 9th, 1852, and wat
next employed as principal teacher in g
Pennsylvania institution for the instruc.
ton of the blind in Philadelphia.
9Th. My wife left Kentucky in March
1851, accompanied by myself as far as
Pittsburg, Pa, and thence travelled
alone to New York, where she was me!
BY her brother, Jacob Stanwood, and
under his protection proceeded to bel
mothers residence in Augusta, Me-.
where / next met her on February 8
1852.
7tb, 9Th and 9th. l vas married in
Millersburg, KY, on the S0th Of o. June
1850 in the presence of Sarah G. Stan.
wood and S. L. Blaine. The marriage
was secret. Having doubts subsequently
of its validity under the laws OF Ken
lucky, which then stringently required 9
license from the clerk of the County
Court, I had the marriage solemnized
second time in Pittsburg, Pa, on the
29th of March, 1851, in the presence Of
John Y. Lemoyne and David Bell.
10th and 11th. Jacob S!anwood WI.
the eldest brother of my wife. had nc
acquaintance nth him at the time of my
marriage; had never seen him nor heard
from him in any way directly or indirect
ly before my marriage. l met him fol
the first time in February, 1852. l had
two letters from him after my marriage
and before I met him and one warmly
welcoming me as member of his fami.
ly, and the other inquiring if he could
promote my business interests by the loan
of money. I had no other correspon.
dence of any kind with him until alter
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 I ever meet any male rela
tives of my wife before my arrival in
New England in February. 1852.
18th, 18th and 14lb. My first child, 9
son, was born in the house of his grand
mother on 18th June, 1851. His name
was Stanwood Blaine. He lived with his
parents in 1928 and part of 1854, in
Philadelphia. He died on July 81, 1854
and was buried in the Stanwood family
lot in Forest Grove Cemetery, Augusta
Maine.
18th, 10Th and 18th. A monument
was placed by my direction over his
grave the year after his death thus in
scribed "Stanwood Blaine, son ol
James G. and Harriet S. Blaine, borne
June 1S, 1851, died July 81, 1854"
have not myself seen the stone since
the first week in July, but have reason te
believe aud do believe that since thai
date many letters and figures thereon
have been defaced, and that figure l and
year 1851 have been entirely removed.
have no means of ascertaining by whom
this was done, but I have reason to be-
lieve and do believe that photograph
vas taken OF the defaced stone by the
procurement of enc of the publishers ol
The Ne,o Age, Democratic paper pub
lished in this city, and that copies o;
said photograph were sent TO divers and
sundry persons, including the publisher
of the Indianapolis Sentinel, the defen'
daut in this suit.
18th, 2Oth, 21st and 22d. l know oi
the book referred to as "The Life Of
James e. Blaine" did not revise the
volume, nor become in any degree re-
spousible for any statement made in it,
though l saw parts of it before its pubi'
cation, but did not and have not to this
day seen page 68, to which the question
refers, though a statement there made
was doubtless derived by the author
Roffel II. Connell, from conversation
with me, but not from any special an'
thorization by me to make it.
[Signed. JAMES G. BLAINE.
United States of America, District ol
Maine. Before me, Winfield S. Choate,
Commissioner Circuit Court of the
United States and for said district, per
sonally appeared James G. Blaine and
subscribed and made oath to the truth OF
the foregoing answers. =,
Witness my hand and official seal at
Augusta, in said district, this 18th day o'
September, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty four
Signed. WINFIELD s. CHoATE,
Commissioner of Circuit Court of the
United States for the District oil
Maine