Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
How THEY won THEIR WIVES
Gossip Concerning the Helpmeets of
Prominent Statesmen.
Sen. Ingalls, Dependent on the Smile
His Handsome Wife.
Sen. Sherman's Wife Shining Light
in Washington Society.

A dispatch from Washington says: The
greatest of our men are made by THEN
wives, and there are few great men In
public life whose careers are not closely
connected with the women they marry.
Senator ingalls, never makes a great speech
unless Mrs. Ingalls, is in the gallery, and
the greater part of Sam Randall's con-
gressional work has been done in his study
at home with his wife's sewing machine
beside his library desk. Mrs. Regain is
her husband private secretary, and Mrs.
Springer advises the honorable William as
to every act of his political career. 1t
is perhaps due to Mrs. ingalls,
that Senator Ingalls, has his seat in
the senate chamber to-day She
kept him out of public life until he
was big enough man to represent the
whole state of Kansas, and he might have
gone into the house if it had not been for
her. 1t was many years ago that he was
offered congressional nomination. He
telegraphed his wife of the fact and she
wired the reply, Don't accept He
| took this advice, though his friends and
hers said he was foolish for doing so, and
he waited until that remarkable senatorial
election occurred in which Subsidy Pom
eroy was charged with having bribed
the Legislature and big man was needed
to jump into his place. Ingalls, was then
ready and he got the position, which he
has held for three terms and which he can
have again if he chooses.
| The romance of Senator Ingalls, was one
of love at first sight He was struggling
young lawyer of Kansas ard had hung out
| his single In a little town above Atchison
He paid no attention to the women and
che flowers of the frontier wasted their
| sweetness upon other nDstrils than his.
One day he was asked to te groomsman at
a friends wedding and while so acting he
! saw that one of the bridesmaids was ex-
ceedingly fair. He was introduced to her
| as Miss Anna Cheesebrough, and he
learned that she was the daughter of a
New York merchant VINO had come to
Atchison to live. In company with her he
journeyed for a day with the new
bride and groom and Dan Cupid got
in his work to such an extent that
! the two separated each in love with the
oth9r. Ingalls, made arrangements to call
and after a short courtslip he popped the
question and received favorable answer
I He was candidate for state senator at
this time and it was a curious fact that his
prospective father-in-law was running for
the same office. Miss Cleeseborough had
to stand the fire of the friends of her lover
and her father, but yourg Ingalls, and as
Mrs. Ingalls, says: MY sins were for
given and my father CONSENTED to my mar
ying his political rival.
Senator Evarts married the daughter of
Gov Wardner, of Vermont He courted
her as a schoolboy, and became engaged at
sixteen among the hills of her father S
farm He did not marry her till he had a
good start In life, and he was twenty-five
when the wedding took place.. Senator
| Edmunds married the niece of the Hon.
/ George P. Marsh, who was one of our
ministers to Italy Senator Dawes met
his wife while he was teaching school. She
was one of his pupils, aud he married her
after her graduation. Senator Teller mar
ried a girl who lived in the same town
in which he was brought up in New
York, and Frank Hiscock got the money
which enabled him to engage in politi-
cal career by his marriage with Cornelia
King, who now presides over his Wash
ington establishment. Senator Payne is
| largely indebted to his wife for his mil
! lions. She was the daughter of an old
farmer who had large amount of land
near Cleveland, Ohio. Payne was poor
lawyer when he married her. The city
grew and Mrs Payne's fathers farm in
Guided the lands which now make up tn
most fashionable part Of Euclid avenue.
Senator Sherman was married when he
was twenty-five. His wife has lived with
him during his thirty-fve years residence
at Washington and she is one of the finest
looking women at the capital. Tall,
straight, and bro haired she has rosy
! cheeks and bright brown eyes and a grace
full and stately form. She was the daugh-
ter of Judge Stewart, of Mansfield, O., and
the Hon. Thomas BARLEY, who afterwards
became governor Of the state. was
one of John Sherman's rivals
There is a story told at Mansfield
of how the two went to see Miss
Stewart at the same time while she was
attending Pennsy lvania female seminary
and how they narrow Y escaped meeting.
Sherman however won the maiden. and
BARLEY, think, married Senator Sher
mans sister.
Speaking of Sherman calls attention to
the fact that Don Cameron married John
Sherman niece Mrs. Cameron is one of
the prettiest and most accomplished women
in Washington. She must be about thirty
three years of age, but she does not look
over twenty-five. She is grent favorite
in diplomatic circles, and likes to 60
into society as much as her husband
likes to stay out of it. She was the daugh-
ter of Judge Sherman, of Cleveland. Don
Cameron met ner here while she was Wis
iting her Uncle John. He proposed and
she accepted, notwithstanding the senator
had some daughters nearly as old as she.
The wedding took place at Cleveland, o.,
! and was one of the most brilliant ever held
in the city of millionaires.
| saw Ben Butler here the other day. He
had rose in his button hole and his rose
was one of the remains of his
romance. His wife was an actress,
and she was playing LAS You
Like It. when Gen. Butler saw her
and fell in love with her. He married her
and she made him an excellent wife. She
was the mother of his two sons and one
daughter, and was highly esteemed by all.
the was especially fond of flowers and she
pinned rose on her husbands coat every
| morning as he came down to breakfast.
Since her death, Gen. Butler has, l am
told, kept up the custom. and this is the
reason why he is seldom seen without his
bouttonniere.
CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY. March IL.
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