The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-27

MISS WHITNEY is ENGAGED.
Daughter of the Former Secretary
of the Navy TO Marry Mr. AImcric
Hugh Pnget.

Hugh Paget.
From the New York Herald.
1t was announced yesterday that Miss
Pauline Whitney was engaged to be mar
ried to Mr.. Almeric Hugh Paget, of st.
Paul, MINI. Miss Pauline is the older
daughter of Mr. William C. Whitney. for
merly Secretary of the Navy, and Mr..
Paget is a younger member of the famous
English family of that name.
Mr.. Whitney is away on a yachting
cruise at the present time, but his per-
sonal representative. Col. G. B. NJ. Harvey
whom 1 saw, confirmed the story of the
engagement.
Miss Whitney and Mr.. Paget have been
acquainted for several years. Mr.. Paget
happened to cross the ocean on the same
steamer with Mr.. Whitney and his daugh-
ter last fall, and subsequently became a
member of their party on a trip up the
Nile They became engaged before return
ing to this country. Miss Whitney is
about 70 years old, attractive, accom-
plished and a great favorite of all who
know her. She has not figured promi-
nently in social life because of her moth
er's death, in February, 1898.
Mr.. Paget was born about 80 years ago
and came to this country to seek his for
tune when only 16 years old. During the
first few years of his life in this country
he worked on a ranch in the far west,
but as soon as he had acquired sufficient
experience to warrant the step he re-
moved TO ST. Paul and struck out for
himself in the real estate business. He
had no financial backing worth mention
ing in this venture, but his energy and per-
severance soon enabled him to amass an
Independent fortune. His success attract
ed attention abroad, and he became and
is to-day manager for a large English
company whose investments are in the
west
In appearance, thought and action Mr.
Paget is a thoroughgoing American. Like
the great majority of his business asso-
ciates and personal friends in Minnesota,
he thinks there is no country and no sec
ton of that country to compare with that
which has crowned his efforts with sue
cess. MIR. Paget is little known in New
York, but is highly esteemed by the few
who have met him here, as well as by the
many who know him in st. Paul and Chi
cage, as a straightforward, hard-working
manly fellow, whose self-relance is due
wholly to acknowledgements.
There are few families in England more
distinguished or influential than that to
which Almere Hugh Paget belongs. and of
which the Marquis of Anglesey is the head.
Among the families allied by marriage
to that of the Pagets are those of Lord
Combermere, the Earl of Winchelsea. the
Duke Of Argyll, Lord Sidney, Lord Wind
scr, Lord Bagot, Lord Conyngham, Lord
STAFFORD, Lord Templemore, the Duke of
Richmond and Sir Edward Colebrooke,
who is married to a sister of Mr.. Almeric
Paget. The Colebrookes are an old Kent
ish family, the founder of which repre-
scented Great Britain in Switzerland near
ly two centuries ago.
St. Paul. Mimi, July q, 1S95.-Almeric
II. Paget, who is to wed Miss Pauline
Whitney, is one of the best known and
most prominent of the young society
men of St. Paul. Although connected
with the noble house of Paget, he is not
ably quiet and unassuming. He is a lead
er in all kinds of legitimate sport and his
influence in the Minnesota Boat Club. of
which he has for years been a leading
member, has been on the side of clean,
manly sport and he has done much to
maintain tho enthusiasm of the club
When / saw Mr.. Paget in regard to the
engagement he said: The engagement was
known only TO a few friends and / did
not intend that IT should be announced
here first. The date for the marriage has
not been fixed"