St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-10
EDISON,s COMING MARRIAGE.
The Engagement Made at the
Chautauqua Assembly.

CbautauquR Assembly.
Special to the Globe.
AKRON, o., Feb. 9.-The announcement
that Thomas A. Edison. the famous in
ventor, is soon to marry Miss Nina Miller
of this city. has created no little surprise
and comment here among all clasres. The
prominence of the brides father and the
still more celebrated name of Mr.. Edison,
make the marriage one of unusual interest.
The wedding ceremony which will
unite the celebrated electrician and
inventor and the daughter of Louis
Miller, the inventor of the buckeye reaper
and mower, will be performed at the man
sion of the Miller family here on Feb. "a.
The officiating clergyman will be the Rev.
DIR. E. K. Young, pastor of the First Meth
odist Episcopal church of Akron. assisted
by Rev. DIR. j. II. Vincent of Plainfeld,
n. j. 'Only the immediate friends of the
family viii be present on account of the
failing health Of Mrs. Miller, the mother of
the bride. Immediately after the wedding
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison will travel by special
car to Jacksonville. Fla, whence they will
proceed to Fort Meyers, Fla, where he has
built
A HANDSOME VILLA.
to be used as his winter home. Here they
will remain until the close of April, when
they will return to Ohio for a brief visit.
In May Mr.. and Mrs. Edison will go to
Llewellyn Park, n. j., where the inventor
has fitted up palatial home of rare
elegance and beauty, costing about $3.50. 900.
Miss Miller is the second daughter of Lewis
Miller, the inventor. She will be 20 years
Of age in March next. Miss Miller is of
medium height with a well-develOped
figure, brown hair, blue eyes,
very large and impressive, and has
a beautiful peach-like complexion.
She graduated from the Akron high school
a couple of years ago, and spent the follow
ing summer in Europe. She is an excel
lent musician, and of late has acquired
taste for painting and other arts. Although
she has no less than ten brothers and sisters,
she is the first child in the family to be led
to the hymeneal altar. Her elder sister.
Miss Jennie Miller, has been engaged to be
married for some time. Mr.. Muler's for
tune at the present time is estimated at
So, 500, 900. In less than thirty years he
has amassed this enormous sum. He was
born in 1888, in Stark county, o. At the
age OF 10 he was a country apprentice
to the only plasterer in the entire county.
He was
A POOR LAD,
his father being a farmer from Pennsyl-
vania. He never saw the inside of a school
house when boy except for two weeks.
In 1850, when the mowers and reapers were
first introduced, young Miller began some
experiments in the business. Having a
little money he took it to Canton and be-
came partner of Ephraim Ball, then just
starting in the reaper and mower bust
ness. About 1868 he started an independent
concern in Akron, under the firm name of
Aultman, Miller q Co., and in a short
time the Buckeye reaper and mower and
the Miller patent binder became known all
over the world. As a politician Mr.. Miller
has been Democrat, Republican and Green
hacker by turns. He gave every year
part of his income to the church. and rose
to be one of the foremost MethodiSts in the
United States. In connection with
DIR. Vincent he established the as
sembly and summer school known as the
Chautauqua circle at Lake Chautauqua.
There is a little romance connected with
the engagement Of Mr.. Miller's daughter.
Mr.. Edison paid his first visit to Chau-
tauqua last year and delivered lecture.
While there he was the guest of Mr.. Miller,
who, as president of the assembly, enter
tains many prominent visitors at his sum-
mer cottage. 1t was here (last summer)
that MT. Edison met the charming daughter
of the Ohio millionaire. She at once capti-
waited the great inventor and they at once
became great friends.