The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-25
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

Whitney-Almeric Hugh Paget Has Won
the Heart of the Former Secretary's
MISUNDERSTANDING Ripened Into Love
While Touring the Nile-Though Mem
Der of the Famous English Family the
Young Man Has Lived in New York for
Years.
New York, July PA dispatch from
Newport says: The engagement is an
nounced of Miss Pauline Whitney,
daughter of ex-Secretary Whitney, to
Mr.. Almeric II. Paget of st. Paul, MINI,
a member OF the famous English fam
lily Of Paget. This has been made known
to the friends of the two families. EX-
Secretary Whitney is away, but his per-
sonal representative, Colonel G. B. M,
Harvey, was seen at his Office at No. 80
Liberty street this afternoon and com
tirmed the report.
mo formal announcement of the en-
gagement has yet been made" Colonel
Harvey said, "and the publication is
consequently premature, but since it is
out l do not think Mr.. Whitney would
care to have any mystery about it. The
report is correct. Miss Whitney and
Mr.. Paget have been acquainted for
several years. Last fall Mr.. Paget hap
pened to cross the ocean on the same
steamer with Mr.. Whitney and his
daughter, and subsequently became a
member of their party on the trip up the
Nile. They became engaged before re-
| turning to this country"
Miss Pauline Whitney is the older
/ n ,orof 90 n Sha
| is about twenty years old, attractive,
accomplished and a great favorite of all
who know her. She has not figured
prominently in social life because of her
mothers death, in February, 1898 Last
summer she suffered from a severe at
| tack of diphtheria, from which she
| might not have recovered but for the
assiduous care of her father, who re-
manned with her continuously until she
was able to return to America Her
health, however, was not fully regained
and it was with this object in view that
Mr.. Whitney planned the trip up the
Nile, upon which they fell In with Mr..
Paget, and from which they returned
but a few weeks ago.
| Almeric Hugh Paget is a younger son
of the famous English family whose
name he bears. He was born about
thirty years ago and came to this coun-
try to seek his fortune when only six
teen years old. During the first few
years of his life in this country he work
ed on a ranch in the far west, but as
soon as he had acquired sufficient expe-
rience to warrant the step he removed
| to st. Paul and struck out for himself
| in the real estate business. He had no
| financial backing worth mentioning In
| this venture, but he had already abb
sorbed the spirit of the mighty west,
and his energy and perseverance soon
enabled him to amass an Independent
| fortune. His success attracted atten-
tom abroad and he became, and is to-
day, manager for a large English COM
pany whose investments are in the
west.
| In appearance, thought and action
Mr.. Paget is a thorough going Ameri-
can Like the great majority of his
business associates and personal friends
| in Minnesota, he made his own way
from boyhood out of the great west
and naturally thinks there is no coun-
| try and no section of that country
4 10 compare Will lllciL WilASAl Hos ~ oNlA
ed his efforts with success. Mr.. Paget
4 it little known in New York, but is
| highly esteemed by the few who have
1 met him here, as well as by the many
1 who know him in st. Paul and Chicago,
as a straightforward, hard working,
manly fellow, whose self reliance is due
wholly to self achievement.
There are few families in England
more distinguished or influential than
1 that to which Almeric Hugh Paget be-
llongs, and of which the Marquis of
Anglesey is the head. It's founder was
knighted by King Henry VIII. and re-
ceived the title of Lord Paget and the
! Order of the Garter for his valuable
services rendered as secretary of state.
In every reign since that time the Paget
name has figured prominently in his
(, tory. In the middle of the last CEN
tury the Pagets became extinct, as far
as male issue was concerned. But the
son of Lady Bayley, who was heiress of
all the estates of the house, and a Paget
by birtfI was permitted by act of par
| liament to assume the name and arms
Of his mothers family, and was sum-
moned to the house of lords by favor
of the king, as ninth Lord Paget. The
son Of this ninth Lord Paget received
| the title of Earl of Uxbridge, and his
grandson was promoted to the Mar
quisate Of Anglesey for his splendid
services in the Peninsula campaign
and other wars against the First Ma
pc leon Lord Anglesey commanded the
cavalry at the battle of Waterloo and
lost his leg in the conflict. He was
i subsequently on two separate occasions
| ord lieutenant of Ireland, and died leav-
ing very large family. His first wife
was a daughter of Lord Jersey, and his
second was the daughter of the first Earl
4 of Cadogan. This lady was the mother
of Lord Alfred Paget, and consequently
the grandmother of Almeric Hugh
Paget
i Lord Alfred Paget, Almeric Paget's
father, was a general in the army and
chief equerry to the queen. He held a
conspicuous position in the court Of st.
James because of his intimate associa-
ton with the late prince consort and
the high regard in which he was held
by the queen. He was the father of
fourteen children. The eldest, Colonel
| Arthur Paget, was a page of honor to
Queen Victoria for fiveNyears, and sub
sequently received the commission
which he now holds as colonel of the