The Saint Paul globe., 1897-07-11
MARRIED IN SECRET
MARK EARLY AND MISS NELLIE
REARDON, - UNITED SOME
WEEKS AGO.
vi> o.
FACTS JUST LEAKING OUT.
THE ASSEMBIYMAN HAS UP TO THIS
TIME BEEN KEPT IN THE
raf DARK.
CEE:EsIONY PERFORMED IN CITY.
bridegroom Says Every Legality
Was Observed, but That They
Preferred Secret Marriage.

On a lonely farm near GraceVille,
Mimi, a young bride is expectantly
awaiting the summons which will re-
call her to this city to be reunited to
her youthful husband. The bride is
sixteen-year-old Nellie Reardon, that
was, the daughter of Assemblyman
Timothy Reardon, and the groom,
Mark Early, the twenty-three-year-old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Early,
living at 1877 East Fourteenth street.
The young couple were secretly mar
ried two months ago, and the fact that
Mr.. Reardon has not yet learned Of the
union is responsible for the Danish
ment of the girl bride. Miss Reardon
has been pupil at st. Joseph's acad-
emy for several years, while her hus.
band is engaged in the Davidson block,
at Fourth and Jackson streets. Upon
the felicity with which Assemblymar
Reardon receives the information that
he has acquired a son-in-law will, in q
measure, depend the return Of Mrs.
Early to her husband. Mr.. Early ap-
preciates the fact that there may be
something of a domestic storm, but Is
happy in the knowledge that Nellie
Reardon is his wife, and is conf orting
himself with the thought that the
course Of true love seldom runs
smoothly, while hoping for the ira
ditional bless you, my children"
which will eventually dissipate the
present difficulty which keeps himself
and wife apart
The young people, who decided to
hniT. ~, t,-i,,
without seeking parental assent on
either side Of the house, have known
each other for about three years. AS
semblyman Reardon has lived with his
family at 179 Fourteenth street for :.
number of years, and, when the Early
family moved into the next house but
one blow. on the same side Of the
street. it was but natural that the
younger members Of the families
should becpme, acquainted Nellie
who, by the way, Is the eldest daughter
by Mr. ReardOn's second wife, and
Mark Early soon became friends. AS
they grew older this friendship grew
into a closer bond, and when the
young people realized that they were
in love with each other, they plighted
their troth. Nellie was at this time
pupil at st. Joseph's academy, where
she was perfecting herself in higher
studies and music. She continued her
pursuit of knowledge and accomplish
ment, however, as complacentlY as be-
fore, mentioning to no one, not even
her mother. that she was contemplat-
ing matrimony. Miss Reardon fire.
quently visited the. Early family, and
in this way she and Mark Early found
ample opportunity to vow eternal con-
stancy without arousing the suspicion
of the young girls parents. Just why
the couple preferred to keep their own
counsel is perhaps better, understood
by them than by outsiders, who, how
ever, intimate that the youth of his
daughter would have opposed Assem-
blyman Reardon to her marriage.
About the middle of May the engaged
couple decided to get married. Parents
were left as completely out of the ar
rangements for the marriage as they
were in regard to the engagement.
Mr.. Early sought the clerk of the
courts office, where a marriage Ii
cense was procured, apparently with
out difficulty regarding the prospec-
tive brides age. Then the young peo-
pie visited a Catholic clergyman and
were made man and wife. The secret
was closely guarded for nearly two
months, Mr.. and Mrs. Early being
enabled to see each other through the
Wife's visits to her husbands sisters
but the news Of the marriage recently
came to the ears or the girls mother,
who was much surprised. Mrs. Rear
don learned that, instead of going to
st. Joseph's academy one day last
spring, her daughter had been led to
the altar by Mark Early. Just how to
break the news to Assemblyman Rear
don was problem which Immediately
presented itself, and 1t was decided
that young Earlys bride should be
sent on visit to her uncle near Grace
vile. During her absence Mr.. Reardon
was to be informed of the marriage,
but she has been gone several days
and Mr.. Early stated last evening that
his fatherin-la;w had not yet been let
into the secret. The young man said
he did not care to discuss his marriage
with Miss Reardon. 1t was a fact,
however, he said, that they had been
united in wedlock, though, for rea-
sons of their. own, the marriage had
been kept secret. Every legality had
been observed the husband declared,
the securing of license and the per-
formance Of the marriage ceremony
by Catholic priest of this city, both
Of the contracting parties being men,
bers of the Catholic church Miss
Reardon and himself had been en-
gagged for some time, Mr.. Early said,
and finally decided to be wed, had
simply consulted their own wishes
with regard to their future happiness,
nithn11t oSIyipO consent Of onxy