The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-26

ever, as q young maiden wRs through
school she married, 80 that it became
necessary to look among the mRtrons for
desirable types of beauty. Miss Aileen
March, afterward Mrs. Edwin Eugene
Wilson, is remembered by everyone in
this region as a beautiful girl Of a dis
distinguished type. Tall and slender,
with a. delicate complexion, she showed
early those unmistakable signs of the
disease which carried her to the grave
within a year after her wedding day.
The marriage was an extremely fash
ionable one, for Miss March was an heir
ess, as well as handsome, and the groom
was endowed with equal ~liberality. The
West has changed much since those times,
when . single belle could take the city
by storm. Last winter saw many debu-
tantes, and this spring numerous we'd
dings. Among the June brides was Miss
Isabelle Daggett, daughter Of one of the
leading merchants here. She is a tall,
slender blonde, with fine eyes. She mar
ried the richest man under thirty years
of age in the state. Mr.. Arthur Coates Is
estimated at two-thirds of a million, with
a rapidly increasing estate and more to
follow. The wedding was attended with
all the pomp of circumstance and the
bevy of imported bridesmaids was an ex-
ceedingly pretty one.
Mrs. Chick was Marie Chonteau before
her marriage. She Is the daughter of
Pierre Monard Chonteau Of St. Louis.
who was the first white child reared In
Kansas City. Her grandmother, Bernice
Menard Chonteau, brought the father
here in her arms, making the then peril
GUS journey si1ty-seven years ago in II fiat
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towed along by means of ropes held by
men on the shore. Pierre Lequeste Lao
lede, the junior member of the firm OF
Maxent, Laclede & Co., who selected the
site of St. Louis, was an ancestor of Mrs.
Chick. At the opening of the war the
Chonteau family owned nearly all the
present site Of Kansas City. But they
were not money-makers, and 80 piece by
piece it drifted away from them.
Pierre Chonteau died a poor mar about
two years ago, having lived to see the
great tracts Of land formerly owned by
him in the possession Of others, and
where was once only rank grass and
coarse stubble, rise upa great metropolis.
His wife was a Polk, daughter of Robert
T. Polk, cousin to President Tyler. From
both sides of the family Mrs. Chick in
herits beauty. The French extraction OF
the father combined with the mothers
pAtrician blood has given her o loneliness
of contour seldom seen In tho West. She
is rather below medium height and of well
rounded figure. Her hair is light brown,
her eyes are long and gray and are hand
somely shaded by dark lashes. Her feat
ures are perfectly regular, while her ex-
preston is unusually lovely. One of her
greatest beauties is her complexion and
dimples. Besides being a handsome wom-
an she is a good talker, and has a sweet
musical voice in speaking. Her union
with Mr.. Frank N. Chick was particularly
suitable. The two had grown up from
childhood together, and represented, the
one the result Of pioneering venture, the
other financial success. Mr.. Chicks
father is quoted as n Of the seven rich
men of Kansas City, and the son is in the
great bankiHg establishment with him.
Mrs. Chick has one child, a little girl.
Mrs. John Clarke Harmon Is another
Western beauty of an unusual type. Be-
fore marriage she was Miss Nellie Rugg.
She was born near Rock Island, Ill, and
is now q years of age. She came here
from Chicago with her husband seven
years ago
Mr., Harmon is a Wholesale lumberman