The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-01-22
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tho CHESTS that were there was this
~ 1lue sad :i,er English
husband. There was areconCiIiations.
The daughter-was taken to Europe
by her father on pleastirg trip and
the devoted husband was given n l,r-
crative place in the main office of the
Central Pacific railroad. Miss Sharon,
Miss Crocker and Miss Mackay were
therefore the three California million.
airegirls who married out of their owli
country.
There was another marital incident
in the Crocker family, Of California,
that excited good deal OF comment
at the time and that is not yet for
gotten. Charles Crocker had a broth
er, now deceased, who was knoMn rs
Judge j. B. Crockcr. He also made q
fortune out OF the Central Pacific bo-
nanza, being chief counsel for theco
pany. He left widow and daughter.
The former is known to-day as one OF
the most charitable women on the
Pacific coast. She has endowed sew
eral worthy institutions, among them
being the Old Women's Home and the
Industrial School of ofSacramento. Her
art gallery has been said to be the
largest and most complete in the
United States, and this she throws
open to the public twice q week,
charging moderate admission fee,
which goes to q charitable fund. The
daughter grew up with every wishgrat-
flied, and was d true type of the
free and independent young woman.
She was in the habit OF breaking
over good many OF Unconventional
rules OF society, but was fair as lily
and was never under the suspicion Of
wrohgdoing. She was fond OF driving
and other out-d door sports, and could
make herself interesting without be-
ing a bone of propriety. She was at
last, however, unfortunate in one of
her acquaintances. He was q young
man who had no visible means OF sup
port and was exposed by the papers.
She took it to heart and went over to
England and came back with trous-
seau, expecting to marry the man
whose acquaintance she had formed
over there, but there was a lawyer in
San Francisco, Porter Ashe, who had
long admired her. and her eye had no
sooner fallen upon him than she chang
ed her mind about the Englishman,
and without her mothers knowledge
she took Mr.. Ashe and the trousseau
she had brought over from Worth
and went to a minister to be
married. They started on South
ern Pacific train to 60 on q we'd
ing tour. It SO happened that this
was the very train that caught fire OIL
the Tahachipe grade three years ago,
and on which so many people met u
sudden and terrible death. Young
Ashe and his bride were i'll q drawing
room cdr, and escaped unhurt through
q window, lind the first intimation
that the young w0fnaH's mother had
Of her marriage or her whereabouts,
for she had married secretly, was from
a list Of names in the paper OF those
who had been saved from the awful
calamity. "Onc Of the saved was
"Mrs. Porter Ashe, tieS Crocker." Mrs.
Crocker Immediately telsgraphed both
bride and bridegroom to come home,
which they did, and the family seems
to have been happy enough ever sii?ce.
Ashe, however, gave over the practice
OF law, and now makes himself quite
easy in life. He has one OF the best
stables in California.
There are other daughters of rich
Californians that nre eiminentIy worth
writing about. The founder OF the
bank ofCalifor.Iia was Robert Tallant,
who died some years ago worth eight
or ten millions. He served in the
early days with d. o. Mills and Will
lam C. Ralston, but was not so much
known in the East as either Of these.
He left q widow and two daughters,
and both the latter-Misses Flora aud
Jane-are still unmarried. They are
worth full million piece. and while
not beautiful, are bright and interest
ing and independent. They are Bo-
hemian in their tastes, and like to
stroll through tho country, and row u
boat. Every summer they come East,
and spend the season at some water
ing-p!ace, having generally their own
exclusive circle Of congenial friends.
Their mother has a house at Oakland
as well rs in San Francisco. Miss
Lydia Woodworth, of San Francisco.
is probably the handsomest of all
these daughters OF rich Californians.
Her father was Samuel Wood
worth, the son Of the poet who wrote
the famous "Old Oaken Bucket" The
family went to California many years
ago, and Samuel Woodworth made %
great deal of money. He died and left
q rich widow, who married Lieuten-
ant Dennison, ofthe United States Ma.
Wy. Two or three years after the mar
riage Dennison went to the Palace Ho-
tel and blew out his brains, having
become mentally unbalanced. No
blame ever attached to Mrs. Dennison,
who is cultured and excellent lady.
There was one son born OF this second
marriage who is called Woodworth
Dennison. A son by the first marriage
is now o student at Harvard. Miss
Lydia Woodworth is worth ut least
100000 in her own right, and is u
most attractive young lady, but as to
marriage is understood to have indie
pendent ideas. She, like the Misses
Tallant, and rs for that nearly all the
California girls, is devoted to out
door sports, and rides horse an !
handles an oar with equal skill. She
can vault a fence with q certainty oft
young Indian and with perfect modes
ty and innocence. In San Francisco
she is at the head OF the topmost So
cial circle and is loved and respected
by very large number OF friends.
Kentucky Blue Grass.
Probably no section of the world is
more famous for its pastures than the
blue grass region of Kentucky, and
many a horse reared upon these fer