The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-12-21
SOCIETY CHAT.

Mrs Louise lIillard Patterson has taken
apartments for this season at the Buckingham
Mrs. Patterson should not be confounded with
other persons of the same name who have
visited Washington. She is one of nine living
children of the late O. b. IIillard, who was one
of the coal kings of Willlesbarre, Pa, and the
eldest daughter of his second wife, Hannah, the
beautiful and accomplished daughter of Col. j.
j. Dennis and granddaughter of Judge Jesse
Fell, who for thirty y-three years was associate
Judge Of Luzerue County, Pa. which position
he flied with dignity and credit to the Time OF
his death. Mrs Patterson's half brothers and
sisters married into her mothers family, thus
making her doubly related to many of the
oldest and most distinguished families of
Wilkesbarre, a town noted for its conser-
vatism and adherance to family traditions.
Mr.. Illard was seriously injured while cross
ing the railroad track of the Baltimore Coal
Company, and for period of four years at his
beautiful home, "Pine Grove" was nursed by
his wife through his terrible sufTerings. After
his death Mrs. Hllard, completely broken
down, was carried to Philadelphia and placed
in the care of DIR. Washington l.. Atlee, of
that CITY, She never fully recovered her health,
and the climate of Wilkesbarre proving too Sc
we're, she removed with her three daughters to
Baltimore, where she purchased the beautiful
house 1921 North Charles street, between
Eager and Chase. 1t was there she met and
later became the third wife of Logan w. Maui
pin, man of peculiar and erratic disposition.
He was divorced from his second wife, but
there was neither legal separation or divorce
from his third wife, Mr.. Mqupin died at his
rooms, in Baltimore, surrounded with every
comfort, and in the presence of his nephews
and nieces, resident in that city, and by such
of his immediate family as arrived in time.
The following year his widow moved to Wash
ington, hoping to find relief from inflamma-
tory rheumatism, and in December left for
Paris to visit her daughter, Mrs. Louise
Patterson, at that time living at 36
Avenue d'Jena, where her little
daughter, Louise, was born. The next
summer they returned to this country, where
Mrs Mauphin died, November &C. 1884. She
was a tender loving mother, sympathetic and
kind to all about her and beloved by all who
knew her. In business relations she was scru-
pulously exact. At the time of Mrs. Patter-
sons marriage, in 1880, her sister, Mrs. Owen,
was i'll with puerperal fever, in her new house,
Just built for her by her mother, Mrs. Maupin,
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 1t was
thus found necessary either to postpone the
marriage or have it performed in the country.
To the former plan the groom elect objected so
strongly that after many consultations it was
decided to furnish the new house FOR the occa-
sion from the Baltimore home, and the wedding
took place from the country, proving a mem
orab]y brilliant affair.
The Sixth Precinct police scored brilliant
success in their first grand ball, given at National
Rifles Hall on Friday night for the benefit Of
the "gymnasium.n The popularity of these
faithful guardians of the National Capital was
fully attested by the large number in attendance.
Inc DlSJflCC commissioners NeSSTS DOuSlaSS,
Robert and Ross) looked in upon the merry
scene. Lieut.. John f. Kelly, Sergeant William
T. Falvey, Sergeant Michael Byrnes, and Ser
geant Brosnan, with Officers Michael IIagan,
Acton, Kemble, Costello, Jamison, Kenney,
Mansfield, Jordan, and Mooney were all out in
handsome new uniforms. Lieut.. Kelly and his
charming daughter led the opening march,
which participated in by members of the
Police Department of the District, each man
with his best girl on his arm. The first dance
(Lanciers) was assigned to the Commissioners