The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-12-25

peat here. e Is enough 10 .say TIA,
Mrs.: Jacobson ~ cruelty Mau1sred and
that thus was one Of the causes Of hel
death: She xas not anxious Is come t.
Washington and once sid to friend.
II assure you Iwould rather BE door
keeper in the house Of my God. than
dwell in that palace In Washington. 8
Andrew Jackson dearly loved his wife.
and there is . tradition at tho White
House that he never went 10 bed with.
ont taking locket holding her picture
from his bosom; and proppinR Il ur
against his Bible 30 that Il would b<
the first object upon which lis eye,
would rest in the morning.
Andrew Jackson was the second
widower PRECEDENT, Jefferson came be.
fore him. and after came Martin Var
Bnren, John Tyler, and Chester A
Arthur. 80.
The only bachelor President the coun.
try has had is James Buchanan. who
respected the woman who Tilted him.
when he was q young man, too much *
ever marry another.
Martin Van Buren, was q green law
yer when he married his wife Hannah.
She was of good family and was only
q few months older than her husband.
Tho two had gone to school together ~
children, and their engagement was
long one. They were married as soon
Is Van Buren's Law practice would war.
rant it. Their married life, like that OF
the Jef1ersons, lasted only ten. years.
When John Tyler married HIS first
wife he was twenty three years old, and
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, "l,e 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 consummated 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 F. F. VS., She was an Episcopa-
liam, and was o beautiful woman.
President Tylers second wife was
Catholic. She lived with President
Tyler seventeen years, and had sons
and daughters.
President Fillmore was q " Dol carder
and his wife was 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. Mrs. Fill
more was two years older than her hus-
band, and she was twenty eight years
old when their marriage took place.
She dietl IN 1853. President Fillmore
survived her twenty-one years, and
married the woman who it is sold became
insane he fore she died. Mrs. Fillmore
was q preachers daughter, as were 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 q men,
Der of Congress when he married her.
Mrs. Pierce was somewhat like Mrs.
Hayes in tho rigid piety with which she
observed Sunday at the White house.
1t was her custom to ask the employers
to go TO church. She did not like society,
and she made the Executive Mansion,
rs far as possible, Christian home for
her family.
Mrs. Lincoln wore a wedding ring
given her by the President, in which
was engraved, "Love is eternal" She
was Kentucky girl, who had gone to
live with sister at Springfield, Ill.
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 wears
old when she married young North
Carolina tailor who had settled in
Greenville. Tenn. His name was An
drew johnson, and he 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 tue 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 war in.
tervened, and she was 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 q two years
courtship.
General Garfield was also associated
with his wife during her school daye
and there had been long acquaintance
before their engagement in 1856.
Such is brief history Ct the loves of
the Presidents. As far rs wo know
they seem to have been singularly hap
py III their love affairs. But I'll 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 a. you and I had.
Martha Custus doubtless held up the
virtues of her first husband 10 George
Washington: and I am greatly mistak-
on 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, 1 doubt not, pranced UP and
down his Monticello home many q cold
night in scanty attire with baby cry
ing In his arms. After oil men ore
much alike when you strip them of
their every day regalia. and President
is nothing more to his wife than coal
HEAVIER is to his.