West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-06-04
CLEVELAND'S W0OING.
The Presidents Bride-Ele Pre-.
pairing to Sail for Homo.
"reminiscences of white House weddings
of the Past-Mrs. Fillmore as a school
Teacher in the Town of Miss Fol-
SONS Alma Mater.


marriage of the President is stimulated
afrcSh by the announcement: that the
Folsom party sail for home Nav IS.
Many circumstances combine To make
Washington people accept the matri-
monial rumor a fact, the most def
mite of which is Rev. William Cleve-
lands admission of il at Utica. as tele-
graphed TO several papers The Presi-
dent 5 family are models of discretion
This ministerial brother had gone on
in the even tenor OF his way and made
no aggressive sign of his existence
since the few days visit of himself and
wife at the Inauguration. | am rather
glad to have him turn up once more.
with his simple yes i'm this matser,
about which none of us feel Indifferent
1t Is only Natural that the President
should be annoyed to find himself
standing "in the bright sunlight of
publicity as an eXpectant bridegroom,
bot IT will Be noticed thdt no dpir4r 81
the soft impeachment rmana ter, from
the White House. After all, it is
good-naturcd and kindly interest which
the public feel i'm the wooing and we'd
ding of a White House bride.
That touch of nature which makes
the whole world kin comes out strongly
at the merest hint of such prospect.
Who blames a church for taking
stock i'm its PASTORS affairs of heart?
And to all intents and purposes the Ma
ton Is but larger parochial flock. to
whom the lady of the White House is
nearer and more chivalrously dear than
any pastors wife To- the members of
pH 4
incnt Republican Senator who went up
10 the White House Saturday morning.
meaning to congratulate the President,
but the presence of numerous other
callers made h Seem fnttelicslte TO DO So. y
and he forebOrc. Still another of that
grave body dropped your correspond
ent Il line on the first publicity of the
rumor inquiring eagerly as TO the fact
There is about as much capacity for
gentle gossip i'm the United States Sen
ate as in any, respectable body of old
ladies / ever knew
Caterers TO the public taste under
stand we'll that the prospect of new
mistress of the Executive Mansion re-
wives interest i'm her predecessors from
the foundation of the Government, and
the article in one OF your Sunday con-
temporarics OH Presidents wives was
timely and readable. but il has several
material errors of statement I'm Civ
ing three weddings as the sum total of
those celebrated i'm the White House.
it undcrstates their number by five.
there being eight recorded i'm our most
trustworthy social chronicles II states
that the marriage Of President Mon
roe's Youngest daughter to her cousin,
Samuel J.. GOuvcrneur. was 'thc first
White House wedding" distinction
which belongs TO the marriage Of Miss
Todd, a relative Of Mrs Madison, i'm
1871, with John g.. Jackson. of Vir-
glnia, who served i'm six of the early
Congresses, four previous and two sub
scqucnt to this event Martha Mon
roe and Samuel l.. GOuverneur cher
father S private secretary for a short
time) were married i'm the east parlor.
in March, 1870, the bride being only
seventeen. Thirty years later She was
laid beside her mother at Oak Hill,
Virginia, the Monroe homestead. un-
der a large pine tree i'm the garden.
The widow Of her son. Samuel l..
Gouverneur, Jr. resides here. much
respected and chaperons two hand
sOipe daughters iosO&igtY.
John Quincy Adams, Jr., i'm 1926, |
during the Administration Of his father.
married ln the W hitc House his cousin,
Miss Johnson Jackson Administra- !
ton saw two weddings there, first that |
of Miss Lewis, Of Nashville. with Mr.
PaqueOt Of Martnique, subsequently |
French Minister 10 the United States, |
and later that OF Miss Easten. the Pres |
idents niece 10 Mr.. Polk, of Tennes- |
sec, kinsman of a later President.
Elizabeth The third daughter Of !
President Tyler by his marriage with |
that lovely lady who was the only one |
among the Presidents wives TO die in |
the Executive Mansion, was married |
in her nineteenth year in The east
room, JahmtE 81, 1s42, to William /
Waller of Williamsburg, Va, n grand |
son of the first secretary Of the Amer
ican Colonial Congress The oldest |
son Of this marriage welded a sister of /
the second Mrs Jefferson Davis in the |
Executive Mansion of the Confederate |
States at Richmond, aud her second |
son was Killed in fighting against the 4
GOycmment, which would argue that |
White House nuptials do not insure /
loyal blood m their issue OF Elizabeth !
Tyler as q bride, 30 is said by ono who |
was prcscnt Lizzie looked surpae- /
sitgly lovely in her wedding-dress and |