Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03

t1ngu1Shed beauty, who died after twelve
years of welded life, leaving four sons,
the wife of one presiding over Washing
ton society during his administration.
William Henry Harrison married
daughter of John G. Synes, an Ohio farm
er, in 1898. She survived him with
family of six sons, one of whom became
the father of Senator Harrison, of In
diana.
Judge Tyler's first wife, Letitia Chris
tian, died during the second year of his
presidency-1842- in 1874 he left
| Washington for New York, where he we'd
ded Elite Cordner, a young lady of twenty,
he being twice that age. Their married
life was not a happy one, and she died a
year or TWO ago, Tyler dying in 1862,
while senator from Virginia in the con-
federate congress.
! Mrs. James K. Polk was Miss Sarah
| Childers, and she yet lives at Nashville
amid many honors, though her husband
died in June, 1849, just after he left the
| presidency. Every year the Tennessee
! Legislature pays her visit of ceremony
in body.
! Zachary Taylor married Margaret
| Smith, of Maryland, in 1908, and one of
| their daughters, the wife Of Jefferson
Davis, was lady of the Richmond white
house.
Willard Fillmore was married at Aurora
III 1926, to Abigail Powers, a minister's
daughter.
! The wife of Franklin Pierce was Jane
M. Appleton, a beautiful and talented
lady, an invalid for many years before
her death, in 1868. Their three children
died before he became president, one be-
ing killed in a railroad accident just be-
fore that event. The readers may recall
an absurd spiritualist tale which went the
rounds of the press in 1879, connecting
this son with q 'heavenly" marriage.
Mrs. Pierce was very averse to public life
and tainted when she learned of her hus-
| bands nomination to the presidency,
the message being brought them during
drive in Mount Auburn Cemetery, BOs-
ton.
James Buchanan, while brilliant young
Lancaster lawyer, was engaged to the
belle of an adjoining village, whose one
fault was jealousy. 1t was his custom to
spend the Sabbath at her home, leaving
Lancaster Saturday night and returning
Monday morning. Arriving at the vii
lage on his customary evening, he stop
ped for moment at a friends party, be-
ing met by some gay girls, who, wishing
her to find that she had remained at home
throughout the evening in expectation of
his coming. By prearranged plan they
related false but lengthy story of his
many gallantries at the party, saying she
ought never to see him again, to which
she replied: 'I never will" They sup
posed it would be merely lovers quar-
rel, but when he reached her side in the
morning she had taken poison and was
| a To id Int
manned a cold and lonely man, admit
During his presidency, niece, the
beautiful Harriet Lane, now Mrs. John
son, was lady of the White House, her
uncle always addressing her by the for
NAL title of 'Miss Harriet" and keeping
her at distance, as he did all others.
Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd,
daughter of Robert Todd, of Lexington,
KY, who in her girlhood was noted
for her bright, keen wit, all being quench-
ed in the sorrow of her later life. Of her
four sons the survivor resides among us.
Andrew Johnson married in 1926, his
wife teaching him to write. In her later
years she was an invalid, their daughter.
Mrs. Patterson, presiding at the White
House.
Mrs. Grant was Julia Boggs Dent, and
she is too well known to require more
than naming.
The reign of Mrs. Hayes-Lucy Webb
was the most brilliant of recent years in
Washington, and that of Mrs. Garfield
Lucretia Rudolph-is bitterly engraven
on the memory of the nation.
Mrs. Arthur was Ella Herndon, daughter
of the Inflated naval officer who went
down with the Central America in 1857
She died in 1879 while her husband was at
Albany experimenting the reelection of
Conkling to the Senate.
The White House has been but seldom
the scene of a wedding. In 1920 Maria
Monroe was married to Samuel Grosvenor
private secretary of the President and
subsequently Post master of New York
her father dying at their home Feb. 4,
1881. The marriage was very private,
only most intimate personal friends being
present..
While Jackson was President a daugh-
ter of William B. Lewis, his personal
friend and constant companion, married,
in 1888, Alphonse de Pegeot, secret airy
of the French Legation, and later Minister
from France, in 1871 during Tyler's adj
ministration, his 18-year-old daughter
Elizabeth was married to Mr.. Waller of
Virginia.
The next and last White House wedding
was that of Nellie Grant and Algernon
Sartoris, whose mother was a niece of
Fanny Kemble. The marriage occurred
in the Spring of 1874, Rev. T. F. Fony
performing the marriage ceremony in the
east room of the White House. Hamil-
ton Fish, Secretary of the State, and Sir
Edward Thornton British Minister, signed
the marriage certificate as witnesses; $780,
600 worth of presents was received. Nellie
was sweet and placid-looking.
And now it's Growers turn.
Taking No Chances.
Estelline Bell.
A man came into the office of a Dakota
insurance company and reported that he
had sustained a loss.
blouse insured in our company, eh?"
asked the president.
Eyes"
premium paid up:"
EsFVerv cent of If g.: