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A BRIDE SIX TIMES.
Romantic Career of Girl In New York--A
Famous Beauty.

Rom antio Career of Girl in New York--A
Famous Beauty.
There died at a ranch near Santa
Ana, CAL, the other day middle
aged woman. Mrs. Louise Campbell,
who has been six times a bride and
five times followed the corpse of her
husband TO the grave, says the New
York World. Mrs. Campbell was 50
wears of age and was born in Ian
cingburg, near Albany, N. Y. She
was relative of the old Dutch pa
troon family Aruyns of the upper
Hudson River country.
Her maiden name was Louise Tay-
lor. She was an only child and her
family was among the wealthiest in
that locality. She had a private tutor
and it was the parents intention to
send her abroad for several years of
travel and residence when her school
days should have been finished. AS a
child she was always a beauty, and
before she was Is years old she had
young men admirers by the dozen in
the old town of Lancingburg.
In 1858, when II years old, she Wis
tied an aunt in Brooklyn. There her
beauty yimmediatelyattracted attention.
She fell madly in love with an impe-
cunious young man, just home from
college and at the time teacher in
the Brooklyn public schools. Almond
Rollins was his name. After a few
weeks acquaintance with him she
eloped from her aunt's home and was
married to the school teacher.
The young people went South,
where Rollins got a place as tutor in
seminary in Montgomery, Ala. The
change. in climate affected his health
and he was an invalid for two years.
He resigned his place as tutor and
tried light work on plantation. His
beautiful bride cheerfully accepted
their unfortunate lot and taught mu
sic for the support of herself and hus-
band. She was too proud to write to
her relatives for financial or other aid.
In 1860 Rollins died.
The widow, then 10 years of age, re-
remained in Alabama, supporting her
self by teaching. In May, 1861, she
was married to Clarence Cushman, a
very rich young English merchant of
New Orleans. Pictures of her still
extant and taken at the time of her
second marriage, show that her sad
experience and hard work and priva-
tions had made little if any change in
her wondrous charm of eyes, and her
refined, classical features. The Cush-
mans went to Europe, lived in Munich
for several years, and two children
that died in childhood were born to
them there. In 1864 Mr.. Cushman
lost over two thirds of his property in
the South by the ravages of the war.
In Rome Mr.. Cushman was seized
with the Roman fever and died.
The widow went to London, where
she found that her husband was really
bankrupt. Too proud to inform her
relatives of her distress, she remained
in England and once more became a
teacher. She was governess in an
English family for three years, and
then returned to New York, where she
was a saleswoman in a dry goods
store.
In 1868 she was married in Plain
field, N. j., to Lieut.. Oscar D. Viii
liams U. S. A., and went with him to
live at Fort Sully, N. D. They lived
happily together and Mr.. Williams
became the favorite of all the fort. In
August, 1869, her husband was
drowned while bathing in the Missou-
ri River, and his wife became for the
third time widow.
Her father, who heard of his only
daughters misfortunes, begged of her
to return to her former home and be
forgiven, but she still felt the sting of
his refusal to recognize her first mar
riage and once more began earning
her own living. For two years she
was governess in the family OF a Lou
isville merchant. She married in 1871
the Rev. Edward Lukes at Covington,
KY. The preacher was boon com.
panion years ago of President Cleve.
land at Syracuse, N. Y. Her husband
was sent as missionary to India and
his wife accompanied him. They
made their home successfully in India.
Hong and Honolulu. Mr.. Lukes
died in the Sandwich Islands in 1876
and his wife made her way back to
America with his body.
Mrs. Lukes lived with brother and
sister of her dead husband in Indian
apolis. She then entered private
hospital in Chicago as nurse. STE
was very poor and was again COM
PEELED to work hard for a living.
Among the patients who came to the
hospital was middle-aged man, a
widower, named Hiram E. Dana. In
his days of convalescence he was
waited upon by the beautiful Mrs.
Lukes and he fell desperately in love
with her. The two were married in
Chicago in December, 1880, and visit
ed the fashionable resorts that winter.
They had fine home in Kansas City,
and late removed to st. Paul, Minn.,
where Mr.. Dana added largely by the
real estate boom to his comfortable
fortune. In 1885 his head was injured
by fall on the ice, and his wound de;
veloped brain disease. A few months
later he shot himself at a private asy-
lum near Milwaukee.
Mrs. Dana lived in retirement, and
possessed ample means for several
years. She gave generously to the
foreign missionary cause and to hospi-
tails. She and cousin went to Eu-
rope on a long tour, and while abroad
she had several proposals of marriage
from Americans also travelling. In
Florida, in 1891, she met Albert E..
Campbell, and they found they had a
host of mutual friends of long ago.