Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-22
A ROMANCE RECALLED.
An Interesting Love story of Half a
Century Ago.

ago.
The preparation for the arrival here
of the recently married daughter of
CONGRESSMAN Wharton Green, of
North Carolina, recalls an interesting
story of the romance of half-century
ago. writes Washington correspon-
dent to the Louisville Commercial.
A principal figure was in the
grandmother of this same very hand
some young lady. A Mr.. EiIery, of
B 9ston, who was a man of great
wealth and bachelor at the age of
go, returning from a long tour
abroad, where he had been introduc-
ed in tne fashionable circles of society,
0bse rived as his vessel touched the
wharf group of young girls watch
ing the ship as she came IN. One of
these was the daughter of a New
Hampshire farmer who had been I'M
fortunate in business and had come to
Boston hoping to find remunerative
employment. The girl was so remark
ably beautiful that Mr.. Elery point
ed her out to companion, remarking
at the time that no European beauty
GOULD compare with the fresh, sweet
face before them. He added that al
though he was an old man, and she
apparently not more than Is, he in
tended to make her his wife. He fol-
lowed her TO her home, obtained an
introduction, and 10 three weeks she
beca me Mrs. Ellery. The aged lover
requested that his young bride should
be married In the PLAIN muslin dress
she wore the day on which he first
saw her standing on the Boston pier.
The request was complied with, AID
the quaint faded dress is still preserv-
ed the family Mrs e lery developed
into one of the most beautiful women
of the day. She was highly gifted,
and being left a young widow with
ore little girl at her palatial country
seat in jamaica Plain, near Boston,
she improved her mind by thorough
course of reading. Mr.. Ellery's i'm
mense fortune was settled on the
little girl, with a liberal allowance
for his widow Mrs Ellery after
ward met and married General Green,
the father OF the present member of
congress from North Carolina, Gen.
Wharton Green. A marriage be
tween the only daughter of Mr..
K lery and the only son of Gen.
Green was contracted soon after they
were grown. Tne bride of few days
ago is the eldest daughter of Col.
Green and Mr. Elery's daughter.
Toe magnificent property which the
mother inherited is safely invested,
and descends to her children. Col
Green is wealthy in his own right,
and comes from a North Carolina
family who have had the prestige of
wealth and culture for generations
During the late war Mrs. Green and
her daughter, Mrs Wharton Green,
were accidently detained at Boston.
Col Green was in the confederate
army, and the sympathics of both
ladies were with tho south. It was
impossible for Mrs, Green to get to
North Carolina. They retired to
Jamaica Plain and were very gener-
Gus IN their gifts TO the confederate
prisoners. On one occasion Mrs. Gen.
Green bought out al auction an entire
drug store and sent the medicines to
the COnfederates prisoners at
JOhnstons, island. This act was
severely criticised By the people of
Boston, and a number of people went
TO amaica Plain to burn the house.
Luckily the ladies FAD just left. The
mob was met at the gate by a
quick-WItted Irish butler, who shook
hands with his angry compatriots
and spoke a kind word for his hand
some mistress and ordered out of the
cellar barrel of fine old whiskey. He
treated the crowd, and, after an
exchange of civiliues, tho mob retired
in good order and left the house
untouched Mrs. David Davis is a
niece of Mrs Gen Green.