Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-11-27
a LOVES OF PRESIDENTS.
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How Our Chief Magistrates
Control and r the o Women
Is. r. Whom They Married.
The Four Presidents Who
! Welded Widows -ThesRo3
manccs of Jefferson and
Washington.
Buchanan's Bachelorhood - Gossip
About the Presidents Wives from
Washington to Arthur.
Corn in Cleveland Leader. :

| Corp in Cleveland Leader, ~, - ~,
-WAsHINGTON, Nov. THE gos-
| sips Of Washington still discuss the
probability Of President Arthur mar
| rving Miss Title Erelinghuysen.
They say the denial, Of the report by
| the interested parties is only the Gus
tomary action in love matters aud as
sert that the match will be both ,cni-
neni and proper. President Arthur,
they say, is iii his ph, steal prince He
is Just the age OF President Tyler al
the time OF his second marriage to
Miss Julia Gardner, during the last
year OF Tyler's presidential term. Mr.
Arthur's marriage to Miss Frtfiny-
huyscn will be, more in accordance
with the fitness fittings than Tyler's
| bv reason that the difference in tier
ages is not So great President Tyler
a. In. time oi his see, nd marriage
was 81 years oil. and Miss CABINET
wa, under 90 Ari ,ur is nav 81, ia>i
the age OF Marc Antony when he
was most cnainored Of Z CO.
patra. who, strange IN SAT. WA when
She killed herself just the age of Miss
Frclinghnyscn. Ia January next Pres
ident Arthur first wife will have
been buried five years. 'Tylcrs frs
wife was not yet two years dead when
he took his second President Ar
thurs wife was the daughter ofa Cap
tain Hcrndon. He married her, l am
told in Washington in st. Johns
church, where he now goes every Sur
day, and in which he has placed mo
mortal window to her memory The
pew he sits in. it is said, is the SAM.
her family used in the latter DAYS OF
the fiities, and I have newspaper
paragraph stating that he, keeps her
room in his New York mansion in the
same condition as it was when she left
for her long journey of 1880.
WOMEN WHO DIED TOO SOON.
Mrs. Arthur is by no means the first
presidents wife who has died before
her husband has reached, the white
house. Martha SHELTON, the beautiful
wife Of the red-headed and frcckIed
Jefferson, had been dead nineteen
wears before her husband was elected.
Rachael DOneisou, the wife of the hot
headed but cOurtly jackson, had her
dresses made to take her place rs mis-
trcss of the executive mansion, but
died before Old Hickory was inaugur
ated. HANNAH Hose, the consort OF
the foxy Miss Nancy Van Buren,. laid
in her grave nineteen years before
Jack son made him his successor, and
President Harrison died in Office be-
fore his wife had come to Wash
Ington. N
The presidents wives now living
are Mrs. Polk, n Nashville: Mrs. John
Tyler, at Richmond; Mrs. Grant, at
jersey City; Mrs. Hayes, in Fremont.
and Mrs. Garfield, in Cleveland. Or
these the widows, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Ty-
ley and Mrs. Garfield, draw from the |
government pensions Of 5000 year. |
--an-.1 HOW THEY DIED. .4.o
Mrs. lack Taylor died in Louisiana
during the same administl alton for |
which her husband was elected. She !
opposed her husbands being candi- |
date aud would have nothing TO do
with the unSodly life of the capital.
Abigail Fillmore died at Wizards no.
tel here about one month after her |
husband finished his term. The hard |
work Of the white house fastened her
disease. Mrs. Lincoln lay i'll at the !
white house for q long time after her
husbands, death. and Andrew John
sou did much of his executive business
at the treasury department. Mrs. Lit
titia Christian Tyler is the only prcsi
dents wife who has died in the white
house. Martha Washington died two |
years after the death of her husband,
at MI. Vernon, where Washington /
died in 1893. She shut herself up iu
an attic chamber and cut a hole in the
door for her cat. She saw no I
one and lived without fire.
and had she . lived to-day
she would have been deemed /
slightly crazy Abigail Adams health
failed her after she had lived four |
months in the white house. She left !
il aud went back to Massachusetts, and !
died there. aged "a. Dolly Madison 7
was driven from Washington when |
the British burnt the capitol in 1914, !
but the shock did not Kill her. She
returned herr 10 iiveafter her husband !
died. aad she died here IN 1919. al the
age of a. i
Mrs. John Quincy Adams also lived |
10 be q years of age She inarried at
-. and was born. educated and mar |
ried in London. john Quincy Adams
was engaged TO her three years before |
he married her. and their first tour
after her wedding was to Berlin. !
where Mr. Adams went 10 serve as /
minister.
Ii is curious fact that the first
three presidents LIZ rtn-.. 90