The San Francisco call., 1896-06-23
WILL MARRY A
FORMER PUPIL,
A Pretty Romance of the
Public School De-
partment.
CAUGHT HER TEACHER.
The Patience of Vice.Principal
Kingsbury Rewarded
at Last.
WAITED TWO LONG YEARS.
A Wedding to Take Place Tonight
at the Central Methodist Epis.
copal Church.
WAITED TWO LONG YEARS.

A wedding that will take place this
evening at the Central Methodist Episco-
pal Church on Mission street. near Sixth,
will bring to happy termination the
prettiest romance that ever interested the
School Department of San Francisco.
The contracting parties are Willard del.
Kingsbury, vice-principal of the John
SWEET Grammar School, and Miss Clara
Jeanette Stanbridge, former pupil of the
teacher.
Two years ago Mr. Kingsbury, who is
considered remarkably bright tutor, was
vice principal of the Franklin Grammar
School, on Eighth street, between Harri-
son and Bryant, and as is custom
ary with vice-principals, taught the ninth
or highest grade of his school.
Among the young ladies' under his
charge was Miss Stanbridge, pretty girl
of sixteen summers, who showed an apti-
tude for her studies beyond her years, and
won the appreciation of her teacher.
1t was not long before feeling stronger
than friendship and the admiration in
spired by bright mind stirred in the
schoolmasters breast, and though he
sought to stifie it and treat her simply rs
her tutor and as he treated the other girls,
it would not down, but mastered him.
Try as he would to conceal his feelings
the sharp-eyed damsels of his class saw
his slate of mind, and it soon became a
matter of remark among them that Mr..
Kingsbury seemed to be very fond of
Clara Stanbridge. Ere long Mr.. Kings
hury's affection for his fair pupil became
80 strong that he no longer tried to fight
against it, but allowed Cupid to lead him to
the home of his charmer, who lived with
her parents in cozy residence at 81 Gar.
den street.
To Miss Stanbridge's father, who is con-
nected with the Pacific Woodenware and
Cooperage Company, the smitten teacher
confided his affection for the daughter and
asked for her hand. Her parents, how
ever, deemed her too young to undertake
the responsibilities OF marriage and ask ed
him TO wait a couple of years until she
had reached her eighteenth birthday.
Though impatient at delay Mr.. Kings
bury consented to the long wait, consoled
with the thought that he could see and
talk with his charmer each day. Soon his
hopes were shattered, for he was trans
ferred to similar position in the John
SWEET Grammar School on McAllister
street, between Franklin ard Cough, that
he had held in the Franklin School.
The change involved a partial separa-
ton, but there was no way out of it, and
Mr.. Kingsbury went to live out his two
years of exile from his fiancee's presence.
The period expired recently, and for
some weeks preparations for the wedding
have quietly been going on.
The bride will be attended during the
ceremony by a number of her former
schoolmates and pupils of Mr.. Kingsbury.
and after the honeymoon journey tn e
couple will locate in handsome residence
which Mr.. Kingsbury has furnished for
his bride.
Vice Principal Kingsbury is the teacher
who gained no little notice in the School
Department some years ago by his inven-
ton Of a new system of teaching history
geography and other studies.
He converted whole books into verse
and had his pupils commit them to men,
ory, believing that the minds of the young
people under his charge would retain
| names and dates much better by that
method than by those generally in vogue.
Mr.. Kingsbury is still young man, being
about 80 years of age. and has been con.
nected with the San Francisco School De-
partment for some time