Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-17
SHE'LL WE'D AN EARL.
Mrs. Colgate Of New York 10 Marry
Earl Of STAFFORD.
HER FORTUNE Is $4,000, ooo
He IL Wealthy T0o-While She Has
shOne In Society, He Has Hus-
banded His Large
Estates.

London, Oct. 17.-It IL announced that
the Earl Of STAFFORD and Mrs. Samuel
]. Colgate of New York are engaged to
marry.
Mrs. Colgate is a young and hand
some widow with fortune.
The Earl of Stanford is at least 60
years of age and a widower. However,
he Is very wealthy, and this differen-
tiates the projected union from many
others between rich American women
and English aristocrats.
While Mrs. Colgate has shone in Lon
don society the earl Is seldom seen
there, for he devotes himself to the
management of his estates.
The Earl Of STAFFORD has won a
charming wife indeed. Mrs. Samuel j.
Colgate is noted for her beauty. She Is
blond, with regular features and a
lovely complexion, tall and with a fine
figure. Her fortune Is estimated at
$10.000.000, bequeathed by her late hus-
band, who inherited much from his ia
Their and added to 1t. II cleanliness Is
next to godliness, the world owes much
to the Colgates.
An Accomplished Woman.
Samuel ]. Colgate died in 1893, leaving
one daughter Miss Adele s. Colgate.
now about 20 years of age. His widow
was a Miss Cora Smith, daughter Of
Judge Smith of New Orleans. She is
highly educated. naturally talented,
distinguished. She has a fine soprano
voice and is good pianist, an admira-
BILE hostess, clever, hospitable, gracious.
Tn tho Qnrinc NJ look fo1co1v
rumored that she was engaged to mar
ry Count Adelbert Won Sierstorpif,
whose brother. Count Johannes, mar
ried Miss Knowlton Of Brooklyn, an
intimate friend of Mrs. Colgate.
Mrs. Colgate's brothers are equally
we'll known in New York society. Sgd
ney 3. Smith married Miss Taller, a
sister Of Suffern Taller. Their sister,
Miss Ada P. Smith, married Alfred
Kessler. The wedding was celebrated
with great festivity at the country
home of the Smith family at Baslston
Spa. The guests came from far and
near, and after the wedding breakfast
there was cross country hunt.
Presented Mt Court.
Mrs. Colgate has a handsome resi-
dence Mt West Sixteenth street and an
establishment on the Hudson in Dutch
ess county. She was presented at court
at a drawing room by ambassador and
Mrs. Bayard in May, 1885,
Mrs. Colgates affianced, Henry Will
liam Charles Byng, is the fourth earl of
STAFFORD, succeeding to the title on the
death Of his father last March. The
earl, who enjoys the subsidiary titles of
Viscount Enfield OF Enfield and Baron
Stanford of Harmondsworth, was born
In 1881. He has been equerry in ordi-
nary to her majesty, lieutenant colonel
Of the Coldstream guards and honorary
colonel Of the Seventh battalion of the
Kings Royal Rifle corps. In 1868 he
married the Countess Henrietta, eldest
daughter of Count Christian DANES
klein Samsoe and niece of the first mar
quis of Aylesbury.
BY his first marriage the Earl OF
Strafford had four children. His two
sons died before reaching their twenty
fifth year. One daughter has been maid
of honor in ordinary to the queen; the
other married Viscount somerton. He
has large estates. His family seat is
Workman park, Barnet; his town house.
St. James square, s. w. The new
American countess ny TlsHI VIII CA
plot her husbands very swagger and
martial crest. thus heraldically de-
scribed: "Out Of a mural crown an arm
endowed, grasping the colors OF the
Thirty-frst regiment, and pendent
from the wrist by reband the gold
cross presented by royal command fol
Lord Strafford's valiant achievements
and on an escroel the word Mon
gerre.'"
This crest has descended from the
first Earl of Stanford, who was the
great-grandson of the first Viscount
Torrington and one Of the most dis
tinguished commanders in the PENN
sula war. The earl's family name Is
Byng. so if some miracle should wipe
out all titles the day after her wedding
Mrs. Colgate will be simply Mrs. Byng.