The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-27
MARRIAGES tH ssiGH LIFE.
Some Notable Nedlin.s in .le Early Par: OF
the Ccatusy-1inirimCJ,ial Connections OF
Washington. Adams sud Jefferson.
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Even oar Presidents have poor lucl;
with their marriages. Washington mar.
ried his adopted daughter. who was
Lis wiie's @randchild to his OWL nephew,
and tic last I heard of them was the sale
to tic government Of some OF Washing
tons old furniture by the posterity.
John Adams had daughter named
Abigail, who married 4 young revolu-
tionary officer named Smith. III taking
care of Smith, who was but mediocre,
Adams incurred many enmities.
The ladies may be further interested
in the subject OF the marriages of i'm
portaDt people Nj. Jefferson had very
interesting daughters, ard they married
Virginia politicians around him, to very
little satisfaction in at least one case.
Maria, the best looking OF these giIls,
died in 1904. Her husband had been a
sporting man and horseman, and it ap-
pears that both the sons-in-law of Jefer-
son required endorsements, ETC., which
brought the old mans gray hairs down
to mendicancy, in addition to his own
financial errors.
Aaron Bum, on the other hand, had
one daughter, and she made brilliant
marriage, but it wes her father who in
volved her and her husband in his un-
scrupulous financial and political tricks,
ruined her husband, and when she en-
barked from South Carolina with her
child to seek her father: she met some
where in this world an agonizing death.
It is legend that pirates took the vessel
and made this brilliant young woman
and her child walk the plank. No evi-
dence, however, exists on the subject,
except hearsay; at that time there We're
privateers and pirates.
The most brilliant marriage ever made
in the political circles of the country in
the times OF Washington was that of Ann
Willing to William Bingham. They
married early in those days, especially
where there was money, and Ann Will
ING married at sixteen. Her husband
was descended from a Quaker black
smith, but his family had for four gen
erations made prosperous marriages, and
during our revolutionary war the hus-
band got out Of the country and held a
position of half British, half American
consul in one of the West India islands
to which privateers resorted. He came
home very rich, and received as well the
Bingham moneys, and he choose the
daughter of Willing, who was president
OF the United States Bank, and business
partner of Robert Morris. The Willings
were the finest people IN Philadelphia.
! Secretary Baynrd is descended from one
of them. Freshly married IN her bloom,
the bride and husband we1t to Europe
and re12ai;,e,! ;.HaT ike Years. They
were introduced Ut :he court OF the
French king hy Minister Adams, and
the young man was greatly admired as
| the first :am~rca4 ever seen abroad.
When he returned, at the commence
ment of Washington's administration,
they built the finest house ever seen in
Philadelphia up to that time, and not
excelled perhaps in the present day. 1t
was filed with the best furniture to be
bought in France and the best pictures
from Italy. Along came young Barring,
the English banker, and saw the daugh-
! ter of this pair so superbly brought up,
with G town house and country house,
and he married her; and the larger por-
ton of the Bingham property, which
amounted to 81, 100000 in money, went
to swell the capital of the Barings. The
young mother, however, having lost
herself in society, caught cold in an I'M
perfect dress one night, and was seized
with consumption, and she died in the
West Indies at an early age. She ha a
sister of whom great things was expect
ed, but along came dissolute French
nobleman, without any standing or pro-
priety, and he tempted this girl to go
out with him one night. and he kept her
out all night, to the horror and wonder
of the town, and then made a compro-
mise with her parents whereby they gave
him money to send her home; she was
divorced by the Legislature, her father
having become United States Senator,
and so little was made of the matter by
the Barring family that she was solicited
in marriage by her brother-in-law Bar
ing, and after living with him until his
decease she married another French
nobleman and passed out of notice.
President Taylors daughter ran away
with Jefferson Davis. President Mon
roe's daughter married her cousin, and
they have left some descendants at
Washington and some in the State OF
Maryland. Nellie Grant is the last
Presidents daughter to draw attention.
She saw young, bright-faced English
man on steamship and fell in love with
him without much reason or inquest,
and he turned out to be apparently q
sort of boys companion, hardly ever
looking up to the dignity Of acquaint-
ance with grown men. He therefore
seeks his pleasure up in London, when
he has any money to spend, and she
stays at home with her baby.
The marriage Of Blaine's son is tes-
timony to the beauty, modesty and
sweetness of Mrs Nevins, the mother OF
the bride, who has been too much es-
teemed on all these points for her daugh-
ter to pass into nothlngness. In this
case We know what the poet means when
be says:
A thing OF beauty is a JOY forever;
Its loneliness increases; 1t will never
Pass into nothingness, but still will keep.
An acquittal OF Murder Does Net stop Tra
for Mauslau Shter.