Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-04
AARON BGRR'S WEDDING.
THE BRILLIANT PR0FLIGATE WOULD
NOT BE REBUFFED.
After Being Rejected at the Age OF sev
enty-Elght He Brought clergy
men and Won his Bride.

when he was rs years old and Nine. Eliza
Jumel, 60 years old, was the last act III
the tragic life of this brilliant, passionate
man. Vice. President of the United States
and the slayer of Alexander Hamilton.
From the pinnacle of political power he
became for time an outcast and wan
derer upon the face of the earth and the
drop curtain of death fell on September
IA, 1886, and so closed life which ended
q loneliness and neglect in a little village
IN Staten Island.
In spite of the sameness as a rule of all
love affairs and wooings it certainly can
not be said that the incidents leading up
to the marriage of Aaron Burr and Nine.
Jumel were like those of any other court
ship on record. Burr was born in New
ark, n. j., on February 6, 1855. He was
graduated from Princeton and then stud
led law. When the Revolution broke
out he Joined the Continental army as a
private, but was soon promoted for brav-
ery on the battlefield. When indepen-
dence was secured Burr entered politics
and was elected to Congress. He was then
the opponent, in 1900, of Jefferson for
President ard each received the. same
number of votes in the Electoral College,
but Jefferson was chosen by the House of
Representatives and Burr became Vice
President. 1t was soon after his term as
Vice President ended that he entered pol
itics again in New York, quarreled with
Alexander Hamilton and shot him in a
duel. Burr, ostracised by New York So
ciety, conceived the idea of establishing
an empire in the Southwest, and so bought
100000 acres of land in what was then
Louisiana, but he was arrested by Federal
officers and arraigned for treason in Rich
mond Va, in 1907 He was, however, ac-
quilted.
For several years after his trial he wan
dered about Europe, but finally settled in
New York and took up the practice of law
again. He was good lawyer, brilliant
speaker and fascinating man, but was un-
dersized, passionate and dissipated, and SO
made friends and unmade them again.
Madame Jumel was the widow of
Stephen Jumel, who was one of the mer-
chant princes of New York, and she lived
in a handsome house on Washington
Nights where One Hundred and Sixty
second street and st. Nicholas avenue and
Tenth avenue now meet. 1t is said that
while Burr was Vice-President of the
United States he was in love with Madame
Jumel, but they parted and did not meet
for thirty years, and three days after their
meeting again he proposed and was re-
fused. Within the week he proposed
again and was again rejected. Burr told
Nine. Jumel that the next time he called
he would bring a clergyman with him, and
he did.
As far as known there is only one wit
ness of the marriage now living, and this
person is Jacob Fried, of No. 800 East
Eighty-second street. Mr.. Fried, who is a
hale and hearty old man of 81 years, was
born in Bavaria in 1906, and came to this
country in 1882, and at once got a situa-
ton as gardener with Nine. Jumel. What
happened while he was gardener and coach
man for Nine. Jumel is best told in his
own words to a Tribune reporter, who found
HIM sitting on piazza of his coy home
recently:
81 well remember Mr. Burr's first visit
to Nine. Jumel. He drove up from the
city TO see her about some law business
and his gig broke down in Harlem. He
asked Madame, when he reached the
house, to send some one for the gig, and so
l was sent. When | came back he gave
me fifty cents, saying: Jacob, thou art an
with gray hair, and was not at all good
looking, l should say.
"That was his first visit, but afterward
he came often, and within a fortnight he
drove up one evening with clergyman.
None Of us about the house had the least
idea that he was going to marry Nine.
Jumel until we were called in as witnesses.
They were married in the tea-room and
only Mr.. and Mrs. Chase and the servants
were present to see the ceremony. The
French cook, negro boy named George
and signed the marriage contract as wit
nesses, and / guess / am the only person
now living who saw Aaron Burr married.
CATER the ceremony all the servants
went down into the big kitchen and Mad
anne sent down several bottles of wine for
us to make merry with, and we did SO
while drinking her health. Madame told
me afterward that Mr.. Burr had been an
old beau of hers thirty years before.
1.-THE wedding trip of the pair was to
Hartford in travelling carriage and | was
the driver. When we got there Madame
sold some property and gave the money to
Mr.. Burr. After we got back home Mad
anne wanted Mr.. Burr to get her
some new horses and 4 carriage out Of the
money she had given him in Hartford to
keep for her, but he had spent it all and
so there was a quarrel and that was the
start
MADAME had bad temper, and one
time she wanted me to put her Irish maid
out of the house, but did not want to, be-
cause she had three big brothers working
on the place, so Madame took her by the
throat and pitched her out of the room.
But she didn't dare to do anything like
this TO her husband. In fact, she was
afraid of him after they had quarreled and
she would run and hide when she saw him
coming to the house, and once she told me
to take all the chairs and settees in the
parlor and lock them up in some other
room, so that when Mr.. Burr came to see
her he could not sit down and so would not
stay long.
Il left her in about year and went to
work for Peter Lorillard in his tobacco
factory, in Wooster street, in this city.
This was over fifty years ago, and l have
worked for him ever since, until | was
nearly so years old
"The island is much changed since the
time when first knew it in 1882. Then
there was only one road to Harlem and
that was the post road
Mr.. Fried is now living with his married
daughter, but he does not confne himself
to the house, but travels about good DEAL
He is in the possession of all his faculties
and promises to carry to the generations of
the twentieth century the "reminiscences of
Revolutionary days and the times of the
makers of early history.
The sequel to the marriage of Aaron
Burr and Mrs. Jumel was the divorce
Court and misery.-Netp York Tribune.