The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-10-27
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.
some Notable Weddings IN the EARLY Part of
the Observation-Disclosures Connections of
Washington, Adams md jefferson.
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Even our Presidents have poor lucl
WITH their marriages. Washington mar
rlcd his adopted daughter, who wa,
LIS wIfc's Grandchild to bis own nephew
and the last / heard of them was tie sal,
20 the government Of some Of Washing,
tons old furniture by the posterity.
',0i!n Adams had n daughter named
Abigail, who married n young revolu.
tlonary officer named Smith. In takina
care of Smith, who was but mediocre,
Adams incurred many enmities.
lhe ladies' may be further interested
in the subject of the marriages of i'm.
portant people. Mr.. Jefferson had very
interesting daughters, and they married
Virginia politicians around him, to very
little satisfaction in at least one case.
Maria, the best looking of these gi1ls.
died III 1904. Her husband had beea a
sporting nan and horseman, and it ap.
pears thnt both the sons-in-law of Jener-
son required endorsements, etc, which
brought the old mans gray hairs down
to mondicancy, in addition to his own
financial errors.
Aaron Burr, on the other hand, had
one daughter, and she made q brilliant
marriage, but it was her father who in.
volved her and her husband in his un-
s%crupulous financial and political tricks,
ruined her husband, and when she en-
parked from South Carolina with her
child to seek her father: she met some
where IN this world an agoni2ing death.
1t Is legend that pirates took the vessel
and made this brilliant young woman
and her child walk the plank. No evil
dencc, however, exists on the subject.
| nVNn1Nt 1nn, q ~. - 4l,l ill.,
privateers and pirates.
The most brilliant marriage cvcr made
in the political circles of the country in
the times of Washington was that of Ann
Willing to William Bingham. They
married early in those days, especially
where there was money, and Ann Will
ing married ut sixteen. Her husband
vas descended from q Quaker black
smith, but his family had for four gen
eratlons made prosperous marriages, and
during our revolutionary war the hus-
band got out of the country and held n
position of half British, half American
consul in M of the West India islands
to which privatcers resorted. He came
home very rich, and received as well the
Bingham moneys, and he choose the
daughter of Willing, who was president
of the United States Bank, and business
partner of Robert Morris. The Vikings
we're the finest people III Philadelphia.
Secretary Bayard is descended from one
OF them. Freshly married III her bloom,
the bride and husband went to Europe
and remained away five years. They
were introduced at the court of the
French king by Minister Adams, and
II young man was greatly admired as
the first American ever seen abroad.
When he returned, ut the commence
ment OF Washington's administration,
they built the finest house ever seen in
F~hlladelphia up to that time, and not
cxcelled perhaps in the present day. 1t
was filled with the best furniture to be
bought III France and the best pictures
from Italy. Along came young Barring,
the English banker, and saw the daugh-
ter OF this pair SO 'supcrbly brought mp
with a town house and country house,
and he married her; and the larger por-
ton OF the Bingham property, which
amounted to 81, 200, 900 in money, went
to swell the capital of the Earrings. The
young mother, however, having lost
herself in society, caught cold in an i'm
perfect dress one night, and was seized
with consumption, and she died in the
West Indies ut an early age. She ha n
sister of whom great things was expect
ed, but along came . di3so!"to French
nobleman, without any standing or pro-
pretty, and he tempted this girl to go
out with him one night, and lie kept her
out all light, to the horror and wonder
OF the town, and then made n compro-
mise 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 marr &C by her brother-in-law Bar
ing, and after living with him until hig
deccase she married another French
noblcman and passed out of notice.
President Taylor's daughter ran away
with Jefferson Davis. President Mon
roe's daughter married her cousin, and
they have left some descendants at
Washington and some in the State of
Maryland. Nellie Grant is the last
Presidents daughter to draw attention.
She saw q young, bright faced English
man on n steamship and fell in love with
him without much reason or inquest,
and he turned out to be apparently "a
sort of boys companion, hardly ever
looking up to the dignity of acquaint-
ance with grown men. He therefore
seeks his pleasure up in London, when
he has any money to spend, and she
stays at home with her baby.
Tho marriage of Bl9ine's son is a tea
timony to tho beauty, modesty and
sweetness of Mrs. Nevins, the mother of
the bride, who has been too much es.
teemed on all these points for her &ugh-
ter to pass into n~othingness. In this
case we know what the poet means when
he says:
A thing OF beauty is JOY forever;
Its loneliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingncss, but still will keep.
An Acquittal OF Murder Does Not Ston T,,o,