Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-27

His First Courtship and Marriage-Where
He Met His Second Wife.

His First COurt6n1p8 anu M1TTlH6o-"
He Met His Second Wife.
l am indebted to Gen. Tyler, the son OF
President Tyler, for information about his
fathers marriage. President Tyler WAS
married twice, and he was the only Presi-
dent who was married while in the White
House. Shortly before President Tyler
died he said to his son:
"My son, l have in many respects been a
fortunate man; but in respect to no one
particular have l greater cause to congrat-
ulate myself than in that since reached
mans estate l have passed only two years
out OF the marriage relation; Tor IL mas
protected and preserved my moral hfe.'
Gen. TYLER described his mother, the
Presidents first wife, as a d~ark-halreo,
%fair-skinned lady, with a person which was
a perfect mould Of beauty: She was of
medium size. and looked much like the En-
nress .Tosenhine, save that her skin was
fairer. Tyler met her at a ball given by
| one of the wealthy Douglasses OF Virginia,
and fell in love at once. He was then
about 10 years old, and it was perhaps a
wear before he became engaged to her.
"His courtship." says Gen. Tyler, was
much more formal than that OF to-day.
He was seldom alone with her before their
marriage. and he has often told me that
he never mustered up courage enough 10
kiss his sweetheart's hand until three
weeks before their wedding, though he was
engaged for nearly five years. ne askto
her parents consent before proposing 10
Lher. and when he visited her at the home
IF Col. Christian, her father, on his pIanta-
t;on. he was entertained in the pariors'
where the whole family was TO-
oother. As was the custom then among
the better class OF Virginian families, the
lover never thought of going out rlalng IN
tho same carriage with his a~ffianced, put
rode along on horseback at the SIDE OF Tue
carriage, which always contained one oI
more ladies in addition to his sweetheart
r.: add to the OCCASION Presl
; dent TYLER and his first wife were OF nearly
the same age, he being only eight months
her senior. Their wedding took place or
h,s twenty-third birthday, and their mar.
3 ried life OF twenty-nine years was a mos
President Tyler's second marriage too
, Mace two years after the death OF MS nrs
wife. TYLER was "a. The bride was a cir
hardly out OF her teens. Her name wa
, Miss Julia Gardner, and she was Nm IN
s daugher of a wealthy gentleman OF Ne'
. York, Gen. Tyler says that in the secon,
!, winter after his mothers death Mr.. Gar
t iner and his two daughters came t.
e Washington on their return from Europe
0 They visited the White House one Ihurf
k day evening, and he, as private secretary
took their cards, they being I
8 him. and introduced them to the tamil!
They repeated their visits to the VIM, !
d House during the season., returning I
New York at its close. At the opening {
the following season they were back j
Washington, and renewed their attention Msn
time President Tyler began to look wit
ewes of love at one OF the Misses Caroline
and finally proposed a marriage with b.
to her father and mother. His propos,
e was we'll received, and, the young lad
being willing, the marriage was determine
a upon. It took place in New York. Ge1
TYLER thinks it would have been iodeilcat
&c thing to have had it celebrated at tt
le White House. President Tyler lived Sc
eateen years with his second wife, and ma
a number of children byher. She o Nv
of at Richmond, and receives a pension OF 81
i'll 600 q year from the government...fra1
in G. Carpenter in Lipplncott's Magazine