The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-19

Andrew jackson was the second wild
over President. Jefferson came befor
him, and after him Martin Van Burer
John Tyler, and Chester A. Arthur.
The only bachelor President the Cour
try has had Is James Buchanan, who re
spected the woman who Tilted him whe
lie was young man, too much to eve
marry another.
MARTIN VAN RURES
was n green lawyer when he married hi
wife Hannah. She was OF good family
and was only few months older thai
her husband. The two had gone to schoo
together as children, and their engage
mGMt was n long one. They were marrie'
as soon as Van Buren's law practice woul'
warrant it. Their married life, like tina
OF JeiIerson's, lasted only ten years.
When John Tyler married his frs
wife lie was % years old, aud she was y
He had long been in love with her, an!
had courted her for five years, "Still,
says his son, George Tyler, "he neve
venturcd to even kiss her hand unti
three weeks before the marriage, when OF
his last visit to her prior TO the wedding
he consummated this act. John Tylel
was ut this time young lawyer, and he
had already served term or two in the
Legislature. He was Governor Tylef's
SOL, and his wife was one of the flowers
OF the F. F. VS.. She was an Episcopa
lian, and was beautiful woman. Presi'
dent Tyler's second wife was Catholic
She lived with President Tyler seventeen
years and had SONS and daughters.
FILLMoRE's LOVES.
President Fillmore was n wool-carder
and his wife was school teacher when
they fell in love. Both were poor, and
Fillmore, after studying law and moving
to Buffalo. did not see hiH atlianCed wife
for three years, because he was too poor
TO pay the fare OF $50 miles which lay be-
tween them. Mrs. Fillmore was two years
older than her husband, and she was
twenty-eight years old when their mar.
riage took place. She died in 1858. Pres
ident Fillmore survived her twenty.one
years, and married the woman who it IL
said became insane before she died. Mrs
Fillmore was q preachers daughter, us
were also Abigail Adams and Mrs. Frank
Pierce. She was the same age MS Mrs
Fillmore at the time OF her marriage, and
her groom was member OF Congress
when lie married her. Mrs. Pierce was
somewhat like Mrs Hayes in the rigid
piety with which she observed Sunday at
The White House. 1t was her custom to
ask the employees to go to church, She did
not like society, and she made the Exec
Htive Mansion, as far on possible, a Chris
tian home for her family.
LINCOLN AND JOHNSON.
Mrs. Lincoln wore a wedding ring given
her by the President, in which was ell
gravcd, "I.Ove is eternal" She was
Kentucky girl, who had gone to live with
a sister in Springfield, III. Here she met
Lincoln, then young lawyer, and the
two were married, aud began life rs board
ers, paying for their Recommendations 81 Il
week.
Eliza McCardic was II years old when
she married young North Carolina tailor
who had settled In Greenvlle, Tenn. His
name was Andrew johnson, aud no was
Just OF age. She possessed more learning
than her husband, and the two worked,
though she did not, US reported, teach him
his letters. When, alter many years, he
became President, she was too i'll to do the
honors OF the White House, aud her
took her place.
GRANT AND GARFIELD.
Mrs. Julia Dent, President Grants wife,
comes OF M old family, and her great
grandfather was the Surveyor General o!
Maryland. General Grant met her at ST.
Louis, and was engaged 10 her four years
before lie married her. During that time
the Mexican war interviewed, and she was
% years old when her wedding took place
Mrs. Hayes isl Chillicothn girl, Presi-
dent Hayes made love 10 her while she
Waa going to schoal at Cincinnati, and mar
ried her after q two years courtship.
General Garfield was also associated
with his wife during her school days, and
there had beon long acquaintance before
their marriage in 1854.
Such is the brief history Of the loves o!
the Presidents. AS far us wc know they
seen, to have been sin.uIar!y happy in
their love affairs. But I'll warrant you
every one OF them had his-little skeleton
in his matrimonial closet. They had the
same ups and downs i'll their courtships
as yoU and | had. Martha Gusts doubt
less held up the virtues OF her first hus.
band to George Washington, and am
greatly mistaken il she did not sometimes
tel him that she brought the money into
the family. More titan one OF these
women were Jealous OF their husbands
attention to other women, and Tom JciIer-
son, | doubt not, pranced IN and down
his Monticello home many a cold night in
sCanty attire with crying baby in his
armc. After all, men are very much alike
when you strip them OF their everyday re-
gala, and President is nothing more to
hig wiio than 4 poal-heaVor is 10 his.
FORMERLY weak, nervous, dyspcptic,