Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-20

io1aiasat tlarrises u.
Cath in Cincinnati Enquirer. Even
our Presidents have poor luck with
their marriages. Washington married
his adopted daughter, who was his
wifc's grandchild, to his own nephew,
and the last l heard Of them was the
sale to the Government of some OF
Washington's old furniture by the
posterity. John Adams had daughter
named Abigail, who married young
Revolutionary oficernamed Smith. In
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
portant people. MIR. Jefferson had
very interesting daughters. and they
married Virginia politicians around
him, to very little satisfaction in at
least one case. Maria, the best-look-
ing of these girls, died in 1904. Her
husband had been a sporting man and
horseman, and it appears that both the
sons-in-law of Jefferson required in
dorsements, etc., which brought the
old mans gray hairs down to mendi-
cancy, in addition to his own financial
errors.
Aaron Burr, on the other hand, mad
one daughter, and she made brilliant
marriage, but it was her father who
involved her and her husband in his
INSCRIPTIONS financial and political
tricks, ruined her husband,s and when
she embarked from South Carolina
with her child to seek her father she
met somewhere in this world an ago.
nizing death; it is a legend that pirates
took the vessel and made this brilliant
young woman and her child walk the
plank. No evidence, however, exists
on the subject. except heresay; at that
time there were 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 10 William
Bingham. They married early in
those days.. especially where there
was money, and Ann Willing married
at Is. Her husband was descended
from a Quaker blacksmith. but his
family had for four generations made
prosperous marriages, and during our
Revolutionary War the husband 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 we'll
the Bingham moneys, and he chose
the daughter of Willing, who was
President of the United States Bank
and business partner of Robert Morris.
The Vikings were the finest people
in Philadelphia. The present Secreta-
ry Bayard is descended from one of
them. Freshly married in her bloom,
the bride and husband went to Europe
and remained away i've years. They
we're introduced at the Court of the
French King by Minister Adams. and
the young man was greatly admired as
the first American seen abroad. When
he returned, at the commencement of
Washington's administration, they
built the finest house ever seen in Phil
adelphia up to that time. and not ex-
celled perhaps in the present day. 1t
was filled 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
daughter of this pair so superbly
broug ht up, with town house and
country house, and he marsied her;
and the larger portion of the Bingham
property, which amounted to 81, 2O0,-
900 in money, went to swell the capt.
tai of the Earrings. The young mother,
however, having lost herself in society,
caught cold in an imperfect dress one
night, and was seized with consump-
ton, and she died in the West Indies
at an early age.
She had a sister of whom great
things were expected, but alo1g came
dissolute French Nobleman without
any standing or propriety, and he
tempted this girl to 90 out with him
one night, to the horror and wonder of
the town, and then made COM
promise 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 Barring. and after living
with him until his decease she married
another French nobleman and passed
out of notice.
President Taylor's daughter ran
away with Jefferson Davis. President
Monroe's daughter married her cousin
and they have left some defendants at
Washington and some in the State of
Maryland. Nellie Grant is the last
| Presidents daughter to draw attention.
She saw young g, bright-faced English
man on a steamship and fell in love
with him without much reason or in
quest, and he turned out to be ap-
parently a sort of boys companion,
hardly ever looking up to the dignity
of acquaintance with grown men. He
therefore seeks his pleasure up in Lon,
don when he has any money to spend,
and she stays at home with her baby.
A New Version.
It wasn't in Maine, but was not SO
very far from Maine, that big boy,