Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
ISN'T SHE A HONEY?
A MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER AND
HER LOVES.
Three Times Married. Twice Divorced,
and Figured in a Scandal with
Newsboy.
ANOTHER SENSATION.

CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 19.-Another social
sensation to which Miss Gertrude Whitney
Potter, the daughter of S. w. Potter, the
millionaire president of the Illinois steel
company, is party, was developed this
afternoon. At the residence of her
house shortly after noon she was
married to Julius Clark Daniels of New
York city. The groom is twenty-three
years of age. and is the son of
George II. Daniels, general pas
senger and ticket agent of the
New York Central railroad. The bride is
twenty years of age. The ceremony was
the contracting parties being present. The
bride and groom left for the East this
afternoon. Miss Potter, it will be
remembered, is the young woman whose
clandestine marriage with young F. Lee
Rust, a son of William Rust, the million
;lire lumberman of Eauclaire, con-
tracted at Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, on
in the circuit court in this city one day this
week. The grounds on which the commit
ment was decreed was that young Rust was
a minor, that the ceremony was performed
without the consent of his parents and
that the contracting parties had never
lived together as husband and wife. The
lady gave her consent to the entering of the
the family this afternoon adds a heretofore
unknown feature to thu affair. II says:
Decent Der 81, 1889, julius Clark Daniels Sc
cured from the county clerk of Cook county
q license TO himself under the name of
julius Clark and to Gertrude Whit
ing Potter under the name OF
Gertrude White to marry Acting
under that license, julius Clark
Daniels and Gertrude Whiting Potter were
on the 2lst day of January, 1880, united in
marriage by Rev. r. A. John. pastor of St.
Paul's church in the city OF Chicago. The
parties continued thereafter to live at
their respective homes. Subsequently
Miss Potter submitted to legal
counsel the question of the validity of her
believed that such marriage was invalid.
She then informed Mr.. F. Lee
Rust of the ceremony performed
on the lst day of January between herself
and Daniels and of the advice which she
had received. Thereupon, both parties be-
lieving that they had right to do so, the
ceremony of marriage was performed at
Lake Geneva, Wis, on the 9TH day OF jan
uary, 1891, by Rev. M. Ward. Both
of the ceremonies referred to were secret
and were unknown to the parents of any
of the parties concerned. The ceremony of
June e, 1891, was first made known to
the parents by its publication about a
week ago. AT that time they We're
first informed of the previous ceremony
of marriage. The statement then goes on
to give the details of the suit for and de-
cree for annullment of the marriage with
young Rust substantially as already recited
and continues as follows: mo act
ual necessity existed for decree
of court annulling the marriage,
which was in fact void, but the same was
secured for the reason that the interests of
all concerned made it proper under the cir
cumstances stated. September 10, 1891,
Julius Clarke Daniels and Miss Gertrude
Whiting Potter were again united in
marriage, and the ceremony performed by
Rev. Dr. Striker of Chicago at the home of
Miss Potter's parents at the Virginia hotel,
in the presence of the parents and family
of both parties.'' 1t will also be remem-
bered that Miss Potter became prominent
through her iasion with a newsb boy about
two years ago.