Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-06-12
THE PREsIDENT's BRIDE.
a Sketch OF the wife of Our Chief Mag
istrate


istrate
BUFFALO, June 2.-The Buffalo Courier, /
which speaks for the president IN this part
of the state, prints the following, regarding /
Miss Folsom. The leading facts in the early j
life Of the presidents bride-elecb have been /
so often rehearsed in print of late that it
would be superhuOus again to go into de- /
tails concerning them, had not innumera- I
bic errors Crept into these unauthorized /
sketches. Miss Folsom, whose christian /
name by the way, Is not Frances, but Frank, /
was born IN the year 1864 and viii be %
years old the DIST Of July. She was born in /
the house number l6S Edward street OppO-
site the school yard of the orphan asylum. I
As a child she attended Nine Brecker's /
French Kindergarten. Later the family [
moved from Edward street to the house /
now occupied by Mr.. George j. LetchwOrth, /
Franklin street. At the time OF Mr.. Fol |
SONS death, in 1875, they were living at the
/ Tiff house. 1t will be remembered that
Mrs. and Miss Folsom were in Medina when I
this sad accident happened. After t.
funeral they went to Medina where Nj.
Harmon, Mrs. EOlsOm's widowed mother, /
/ resided. The Harmon family had q good
| social position and owned considerable val
liable real estate, including milling proper
] ty. While in Medina Miss Folsom was
/ pupil at the high school.
nErUhcING TO BUFFALO.
/ in a few years Frank entered the Central
/ school, and she and her mother boarded with
/ Mrs. JOuathen Mayhem. One OF the Central .
school teachers has said of her that Frank
| learned very readily and seemed to remem- /
/ Der equally well, and that she always put a
/ little of herself into the reCitatiOns." While
| enrolled as pupil at the Central her name
/ used often to get transferred to the boys 1
lists, and so IN order that 1t should sound less
masculine she temporarily inserted the mi
/ tial letter G. after Frank, calling herself
Frank Clara. This explains why her name
now often enormously appears with the
initial Q. She was regular attendant of
/ the Central PresDy terrain church of which she
/ Is a member. During part OF the time she
was pursuing her studies at the Central
/ school she and her mother boarded at Mrs.
I Carpenter in the Boston block. Afterwards
I her mother occupied Mrs. h. ID. Boyd s house
on Franklin street and from there Miss Fol
I som went TO Wells college. Her Central
/ school certificate admitted her to the sOphC-
more class at Wells college, which she en-
/ tered without preliminary examination in
I the middle of the school year Miss Folsom
was great favOriue at Wells college and
/ her power of winning the-love and unsWerv- +
/ ing allegiance of many friends is a direct in
/ heEitance from herfather, for more general, /
| generous hearted and cOmpaniCnable man
/ than the late Oscar Folsom never lived. Her |
/ tall commanding figure, frankueEs and sin
/ She was graduated from Wells In June, 1885,
/ her graduating essay taking the form of
| story.
| ATTENTIONS FROM Nh. CLEVELAND.
/ The hamper of flowers sent to her nearly
every week. beginning about the second
[ year Of her college life, from the executive /
mansion at Albany, and the particularly album
/ dant supply that came from the white house /
/ Conservatives when she was graduated, was
I but one of the many little attentions paid
her, the knowledge OF which her college !
| mates spread abroad on scattering to their
/ distant homes for the summer vacations, /
/ thus exciting public gossip concerning Miss .
! EOlsOm's relations to the president, Miss I
/ Folsom has always been IN the habit OF
| spending her summers at EOlsOmdale, Wy
Omiug county, two miles out of COWIesVllle, I
at he
| John B. Folsom. 1t is the typical home I
stead, q rambling farmhouse, set down I
amid the lovely scenery OF the valley.
| Sundry newspaper reports have made Mr.. I
/ Cleveland the benefactOr OF Miss Folsom IN I
money sense. Such statements are ALSO I
I lutely untrue. Her mothers income has al /
I ways been ample for their support, and any I
/ extra funds needed were always to be had
| from the grandfather or Papa john" as
| Miss Folsom called him, and whose recent /
death viii make her the heiress Of a gOOdly /
/ property. Miss FOlsOm's character is that
/ of an unspOiled, ingenious girl, full of self ]
] possession and with two much common I
/ sense to be overcome by her sudden eleva- I
/ ton. Her chief characteristic Is intense !
J LOYALTY to her mother. who is a charming
I woman. Between them exists that perfect
/ confidence and sympathy too seldom seen
/ between parent and child
MISS FoLsoaI's LIE
has had its deeper side. She is old for her
| years. and too observing and tactful to make
many mistakes, which, even should they Oc-
] cur, would be forgiven IN one so young and
inexperienced obliged Suddenly TO regulate
her life by the complicated etiquette Of So
! ciety at the capital One OF her accomplish
ments is a rare glft for letter-WrIting. In
dress her taste IS simple. Her common
sense is shown IN naming an early date for
the wedding, A pOstp0uemeut would have
brought even more annoy anc6 IN the way of
press gossip, and from the moment of land
ing TO the day Of the wedding every move
meut of the president and the DEide-elect
would have been subject TO the espionage Of
pryIng newspaper correspondents. Miss
Folsom, outside Of very limited circle OF
intimate friends, Is little acquainted in Buf-
falO, and has never mingled IN society there
because since she was a schoolgirl she has
n never spent but a day or two at a time IN
Buffalo. Her only regret az TINS moment
must be that her father is not living TO be
present at the marriage of his only child to
the friend who stuck closer to him than
brother. It is an interesting coincidence
that the Rev. Dr.. Sunderland, who is 70 per
4. form the marriage ceremony frequently oc-
cupied, while settled Ia Batavia, the pulpit
OF the Central Presbyterian church, Buffalo,
the church of which Miss Folsom is a mem
Der. DR.. Sutherland having been an attached
friend of the late Or. Lord its pastor.
The Knights Of Labor convention. after
ten days session. adjourned sine die The
general assembly at Cleveland, OHIO, has
given 90 the world no token that 1t has
touched upon the southwest question 1t
I is said that something has been done TO shut
of indis6rimiuata striking and boycottng,
b bat the methods to be used have not been
, diEulged- The assembly has regulated the
. reception of new members by recalling the
3 commissions or its eco organizers. In leg
islztion &c has peEitioued congress to give
American land TO American citizens, and 70
appropriate nonresident aliens property,
aud has also asked congress 20 regulate the
Z banking system By establishing loan ofde=G
in every county The eEoWEllg act Waa the
reply TO the clrcniaE Of the trades unions,
which, il was hoped Wouid restore harmony
z between the orders engaged la laluE reform.