The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01


but whether she married her lover or not
knDw not.
Dsvy Crockett another frontier Statesman
fell in love with q relative of his schoolmas
or, but while he was sparkling her richie
suitor carried her away under his eyes II
next met q beauty at ball. fell in love Z
first sight and become engaged at the clio:
of the fifth dance The day was fixed for hil
TO announce the engagement TO his parents
He started to go to them, fell in with som
boon companions on the way and made, q
they say, night of it. He arrived day to
late and found his lsdy love was TO be maj
ried that nisht to another
Crockett made the best of
bad bargain. He laughed off his disaI
lpointment and danced all night at the close
of the wedding at the party given In ii
honor. He soon fell in love again and thi
time he became married. He was elected Il
congress several times and was one of tn
most popular men in Washington. Strang,
to say, he died in 1885, at the very battle o
the Alamo which 30 stirred up Sam Houston
to his great Texan career.
Charles Sumner married the daughter in
law of Samuel Hooper, one of the mos
NOTED members of Congress from Massschu
sets They did not get along we'll togethe
and finally separated, but this trouble die
not change the relations Of Hooper to Sum
ner The trouble was that Sumner was too
old and sedate for his young wife and h'
would not remain as long At parties or 60 on
as much as she wished. Sumner. who hs(
his rooms here fitted up elegantly and had d
French cook to pander to his tastes prefer
red to remain at home among his books.
To come down to the present HOratiC
Seymour married q descendant OF Genera
i Schuyler, who was Alexander Hamilton
father-in law. and his country home is a pari
OF the old Schuyler estates. Roscoe Conk
ling married Horatio Seymsur's youngest
sister, Julia, and it is said that his relation:
with his brotherin-lsw are more friendly
than the world supposes. William NJ. Ev
arts fell in love with his wife when she was
sixteen and he green boy at college. She
was the daughter of Governor Wardner Of
Vermont, and was as pretty as young Evart:
vas h0mely. They became engaged at hel
home in Vermont, and Evarts went away to
New York promising to return when he had
made enough to warrant his marrying. AT
twenty-five he had made name for himself
as q lawyer, and was q member OF one OF the
chief New York law frms-of one maxi ng
il is said. q total of $50, 600 year. At this
time he married, and his wife, after
bearing him thirteen children, is still we'll
and happy.
General Sherman was brought up in old
Tom Ewing's family. and he married his
adopted fathers daughter. The wedding
eron married General Sherman's niece, Miss
Lizzie Sherman. and the wedding was ceIe-
brated in Cleveland about a month before
that of Senator Blsnch K Bruce. Bruce
was q sheriff in Mississippi when he fell in
love. He had come to Cleveland on bust
ness where he met the pretty colored girl
who is now his wife. They CORES pended for
some time, aid when Bruce was finally
elected Senator he married her. Mrs Bruce
was before this one of the brightest OF Cleve-
lands public school teachers. The night
before the wedding reporter called upon
her and made a number of searching inqui-
ries about the wedding, the guests to be in
vited and her trossesu He pushed the mat
ter 80 far that see ironically asked him If he
would not take look at her love-letteTs:
aud there is 10 DOUBT she appreciated the
situation as well as though she had been Mrs
Cameron herself.
Attorney General Brewster has been twice
married, aud his present wife was q widow.
She Is the daughter of Hon Robert j. Walk
or, once Secretary of the Treasury. and it is
a curious fact that Brewster's first wife aud
her first husband we're both foreigners.
Brewster married Prussian lady, and Miss
Walker a French gentleman. These two
foreign elements having passed away by
death the two remainders met and married.
Mrs. Brewster is one of the loveliest ladies
in Washington, and her husband is by all
edds the hemeliest man. Still he admired
the beautiful, and it is said that
I So1d' of y proposal are were b as 51I
d. ar madame, and am hideous but it will
not be the first instance of the mating of
beauty and the beast and although You may
never love me, you shall never regret mar
rying me-" And so the match was made
and Mrs. De LOUIS three children took the
name of Brewster, aud Mrs. Brewster Is one
of the lights of Washington society.
Senator Ingalls, was q young Western law
yer whe had gone from Massachusetts, TO
Kansas when he met his wife at q friends
wedding. He had cut shy of the society of
the ladies Of the frontier hitherto, but he
was at this wedding in the capacity of
groomsmsn. AS he stood up with MS friend
be noted that one of the bridesmaids was
fair, plump and rosy, and as he looked he
loved She was the daughter of q New York
merchant who had lately settled in Atehison.
Calls epsued. an engagement followed, and
the result was marriage. There Is no finer
looking couple now in the capital, and not.
withstandipg the fact that several beautiful
children have grsced the match Mrs. ingalls,
is almost as fresh and blooming to day as she
was then, quite a number of years ago.
Ser ator Hamlin, OF Maine, married the
daughter OF Judge with whom he tried his
first law case Is an opposing lawyer. Sena
tor Conger of Michigan did likewise, bat in
Congers case his sweetheart first Tilted him
and he was twitted of il in the courtroom.
He left the case standing aud went to Michi.
gan. where he married, did we'll, and came
to Congress. In the meantime his first wife
died. His first love had also married and had
gone West, where her husband had died. Ia
allay her grief she decided upon a tour 10
Eorepe, and started by way of Washington
Stepping over here, she wandered into the
house galleries to see whether she had any
friends in the halls below. She sent him
her card. He was delighted to see her The
old flame burst out anew. He proposed not
long after this. She accepted him, and now
there Is not q more loving couple in Wash
ington. The house they live In belongs te
Mrs. CoDger
Senator Malone has been very i'll and h'
is now thinner than ever. His vile love-
him dearly. A funny story is tod OF he
anxietv at the battle of Bull Run, In which
General Malone was wounded. She wa
stopping at Wsrrenton, q few miles off
watching the battle. General Malone sen
q courier to tell her OF his hurt and TO So
that it was only q flesh wound. "You nees
can't be truel Billy Malone will never have
flesh wound. There is no flesh on him "
Senator Vance has been married twice.
is said that the death OF his first wife coH
verted him to the Presbyterian faith Sena
tor Palmer married the daughter Of Charlie,
Me rrili, rich lumber dea'e a. Detroit. hi
j father-in-laE made him his partner, and til
match formed the foundation of his pIesen
millions. Senaior-elect Payne married
connection of Commodore Perry's VIII