New-York tribune., 1897-12-23
MRS. MARY T. BAYARD MARRIED.
MEG" OF THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH"
Welded IN BROOKLYN TO DIR
JAMrEsON OF LATRORE PENN

Thousands Of newspaper readers In Pittsburg,
Philadelphia and Washington will be surprised To-
day to learn Of the marriage yesterday afternoon
In Brooklyn Of Mrs Mary Temple Bayard. better
known to the newspaper world as Meg" OF THE
Pittsburg Dispatch" TO Dr. William Armstrong
Jameson of Latrobe Penn. a suburb OF Pittsburg.
Mrs Bayard came to Brooklyn TO be married be-
cause she wanted to turn the tables on number
of people In Pittsburg who thought they knew all
about what she doing or intended to do. Dr.
Jameson did not object to taking part OF his
honeymoon trip before the knot was tied. and so
thew came on together 10 the home Of the sister OF
Meg" Mrs William Gardner Osgoodby. Of Eliza
beth and from the latter place they journeyeo
yesterday afternoon TO Brooklyn. where tney ~eie
married by the Rev Dr. F. c. lsiehartr AT tne
home OF the pastor, No nj Clermont-aVe' VI.
Islehart ,s pastor Of the Simpson Methodist
church and an ACQUAINTANCE OF the bride. The
couple were accompanied to Brooklyn by Mr. ana
Mrs William Gardner Osgoodby. ana oy MISS We
vada Temple Osgoodby. the brides niece in'
bridegroom was accompanied by Edgar D. oi
shing Of Latrobe. wealthy nanulactuie'' "
Jamieson owns n beautiful home OF her own HI
Iatrobe as doe, the doctor who is tho leading
phvsctan OF the town They Will speno some
time In New-York and. after a somewhat eN.v"
trip. will return to Latrcbe, where they VIII Dc
gin housekeeping
Mrs Jameson or Meg" as she Is faniharS
called by the people OF Ptttsburg. Is regarded az
oro ., the brightest newspaper writers OF the day.
Her father was the late General Justus + Iefnp'e'
a man throughout his life prominent IN 'he po'''''
Of Pennsylvania. -,
Mrs Bayard married before shc wac .'~
teen years old was mother at seventeen anu
widow at twenty four. and at that age sne reo'
tered college 10 resume the studies INTERRUPTED oS
her early marriage In her last year at Wayhes-
burg College singularly enough IN the io"cs' oa''
WAS her little son. Temple. who was oeginh'hs ms
nrst year Mother and tramped on TO schooi
together day after day. and presented mover pio'
ure In vacation time accompanied by her hoy
she travelled about good deal. and TO these MUS
jaunts Is to be attributed her hrst Introduction 10
newspaperdom. One OF ner letters. telling o. MON
treal and Quebe, when Mrs. Bayard had her niue
with her. for her production enthus,aSr Ser
newspaper work which she did. "
The name OF Mary Temple Bayard led 10 ner pc
r Bayard who is a relative. and she dropped hes s
real name and wrote under the nom De plume ,r, Ul I
Meg" She was regularly on the stan o, IN" dhe
Philadelphia Times" and The Pittsburs pspah.cn pphse
papers coming home TO find her son In a hospua'
where he had n undergo DANGEROUS operau9l
For fourteen months she lived at the hospital 90
ing Newspaper work and then her boy died. Last
summer she went abroad the spec ial representa-
tive OF the order OF Fcresicrs. whose suptetne
lodges held sessions In London. Glasgow and Be,-
fast. She accompanied the American squad OF ON
this trip. , -.
The doctor has been her suItor for some time; but
a 5 she had fortune OF her own and earned pleuy
OF money with her pen. she was disinclined TO be-
ardent wooer however. and the words by the Rev.
Mr. Iglehart that made them man and VIE yes
and began new one in the life OF woman who
numbers her friends by tho thousand.