Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-01

1911 Wncn year ola, was farmer, miner
and q legislator in California In the pioneer
days, and an early factor in Nevada material and
political affairs. He came to the Senate of the
United States in 1873. Two years afterward he
brought to Washington one of the most beau
tful brides that ever entered the social life Of
the capital Gen. Grant was then in the second
term of his presidential career. and the grand
DANES of that brilliant period of the fashiOna-
bic experiences of the seat of government We'd
with each other in doing honor to the bride of
the Senator from Nevada. During the long
term of senatorial service of her husband Mrs
Jones has been the central gem in a group of
beautiful matrOns
Georglna +. Sullivan, native of California
and type of the beautiful women of that re-
mote and marvellous section of the republic,
was celebrated IN her maiden days as the fore
most belle of the Pacific coast. Her father.
Eugene l.. Sullivan of New York, the first
OF the family born in the United States. His
father, Dublin lawyer. went to Paris when a
young man. but upon the outbreak of the
French revolution came to this country and
soon after married Miss Stewart, of promi-
mems New York family. Both parents of Mrs
Jones' father having died about the same time
the orphan of three years of age was reared and
educated by his paternal uncle, who was a
priest of the Roman church. Upon arriving at
manhood, having studied law, in 1919 he went
to California with the advance tide OF pioneer
civilization. He was always active politician
and during the term of President Arthur was
collector of the port of San Francisco. His
death occurred i'll 1885.
The family of Mrs. Jones is even more dis
tinguished in Pacific slope history on her
mothers side. George c. Youndt her grand
father, was born IN North Carolina. When a
boy his parents removed to Missouri. In 1881
young lOuGdt, who had now reached mans
estate. was interested in the fur trade In
pursuit of this particular branch of industry
he made his way to that portion of Mexico
now embraced in the state of California At
Monterey, the old capital of California under
the government of Mexico, he met Gen. VAL
lejo. Through the friendly advice of this
prominent Mexican Mr.. 1Oundt was induced to
remain in this distant country, and very soon
after received from the Mexican government an
important grant of lands in the beautiful Napa
valley. When Mr.. Ioundt took possession of
his vast tract he the first white man ever
known to enter that region. He built log
cabin for his home, erected the first flour mill
and raised the first wheat in that region As a
mark of appreciation of his industry the state
of California presented him with gold
medal. In 1913 Mr.. Youndt, then prosperous
planter IN that Mexican territory, sent
wagons and horses and an escort across
the plains to bring hack those members Of his
family still remaining in Missouri. Mrs. Jones'
mother, who was then seventeen years of age
with her sisters rode on horseback with the
train the entire distance, consuming nearly
nine months in the journey. The departure of
this party was a great event and the people
from far and near came to see them started on
their perilOus journey.
Mrs. Jones before her marriage to the Sem
ator had resided ten years in Europe, where
she had ali the benefits of European educa-
ton. Her mother was the first American lady
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont met when she went
to California in 1917 and from that time a life
long friendship sprung up between them. Mrs
Jones has three beautiful children-Alice, who
is seventeen, Marian and Georgina. The SEN
ator, by his first wife, has a son. now in Har-
ward college. Mrs. Jones has Just arrived from
Santa Monica, Southern California. where the
Senator has a tract of 81 900 acres of grazing
and farming territory. Youndtville, in the
SaPa valley. the paternal home, is now the CEN
ter OF fertile vineyard and wne-making
region. The Nevada home of Senator and
Mrs. Jones is Gold Hill, mining town OF few
thousand inhabitants. AS soon as Mrs. Jones
RECEIVERS from the effects of her long journey
across the continent she will be at home to her
friends. Her daughter Alice. who will soon
enter society, Is a brunette with expressive
black eyes. Her mother is classic type of
blonde.
In 1877 Philetus Sawyer then thirty-one
years of age, with his wife, Melyina NJ Hadly,
young lady OF an adjoining town, whom he
married in iS4l, and two sons drifted in the
tide OF emigration then setting in toward the
great northwest Mr.. Sawyer had no capital
industrious wife. The lumber business of the
Wolf river region opened tine highway to lu-
crative occupation and ultimate opulence
The present season at Washington has been
characterized by the opening of many new
DaIatlal residences INIT nona of thaca axoaI tba