Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25

| KEoKUK, iowa. June lS.-Gen. John NJ.
| Schotield, commander-in-chiefo of the United
States army, was married to Miss Georgia
Kilbourne at st. Johns Episcopal church
! to-day by Rev McIlwaine
| Immediately after the ceremony we'd
ding breakfast was partaken Of at the home
| of Mrs. George F. Kilbourne.
| From 1870 to 2:30 this afternoon those
| holding invitations were received at the
| family residence.
Promptly at 2:30 Company A, Second
regiment, ]. n. G. and Curtis Camp Sons
| of Veterans. preceded by band. escorted
| Gen. Schofield to the Hotel keokuk, where
public reception was had. The general
expressed desire to meet his own COM
rades in this city, many of whom Were in
his brigade during the war, The reception
was given under the auspices of Terrence
Post G, A. R., and everybody was invited.
A pleasant feature of the occasion was a
special invitation to the school children and
young people extended by the general to
come and shake hands with him. From
four to five hundred children, each carrying
small flag, were present in addition to the
veterans and citizens.
Late this afternoon the general and his
bride, together with Lieuts. Andrews and
Bliss, left on a special car for San Fran
cisco and other Western points.
Maj.-Gen. John McAllister Schofeld
whose engagement to marry Miss Georgia
n. Kilbourne of Keokuk, Iowa. was an
nounced, then denied, by the Army and
Navy Journal, and then announced again,
has often been the subject of very contra
dictory reports. The reticence he acquired
as a regular army officer and subordinate
is still his habit as commander-in-chief of
the United States army, and, in love, as III
war, his way is to do things without talk
ing about them. He was born in Chau-
tauqua county, n. Y, September 29, 1881,
graduated from West Point in 1853, and has
risen through all the ranks with phenome-
nal regularity
The bride is twenty-six years old, and
her father, who died two years ago, was
among the oldest and wealthieSt citizens of
Keokuk. Some years ago her sister, but
twenty-five years old. married Gen. Hiram
Barney of New York, when he was seventy
two, and the union is reported as an un-
usually happy one. The romance of the
present situation is that Miss Georgia was
a favorite of Gen. Schofeld's first wife and
a very intimate friend OF his daughter
Mary, acting as bridesmaid when the latter
married Lieut.. Andrews of the regular
army. David Kilbourne, grandfather of
the lady in question, went to Iowa almost
as soon as it was open to white settlement,
and his sons were very prominent in the
era of unsettled land titles and consequent
local feuds and the so-called mormon war;
in 1906.
The daughters have been noted from in
fancy for winning manners, intelligence
and vivacity. Georgia especially has trav
eled great deal and is witty and socially
well equipped She is of petite and grace
full figure, and has fortune in her own
right. The kilbourne mansion in keokuk,
Iowa, is very old and peculiar structure,
and is shown to visitors as one of the land
marks, not to say oddities, of the city.
Gen. Schofield will hold his place as head
of the army till 1895, if so long spared, and
will then be entitled to retire on his rank.