West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-10-06
IN CUPID'S COURT.
Gen Morgan's Daughter Married
Another Spanish Prize Captured.
STEvENs-MoRGAN

riei Mt the home Of the brides
cousins, Mr.. aud Mrs. a. l. Girton.
September q. 1898, at 1870 -. M,
IN the beautiful town OF Climber
land. Ohio. Only IA few intimate
friends and relatives were present.
Mise Morgan is half Spanish.
Her father, Enrique Morgan, was
horn and raised in MonongAlis
county, West Virginia, and ut the
close of the civil war. he went TO
Egypt with Gen. LorIing, of the
Confederate army. and joined the
army of the Khediye. But Morgan
was Young aud ambitious, and soon
tirIng of inactivity, he went out
with an engineer corps to survey a
railroad and contracted the small.
pox. After taking everything he
possessed, his Egyptian friends left
him to die on the desert, but he
lived and was too proud to ask
help from the American Consuls
abroad. So he was compelled to
work his way acros Europe, and
finally reached the coast of Spain,
where he took passage for America,
and landed in the Republic Of Co.
lumbia, South America, and at
once joined the army Of that coun-
try, which at that time was having
one revolution after another. Nor.
gan was q private soldier and took
no part politically either way, so
he was promoted froR one degree
TO another till in 1889 he was given
the rank Of Commander-In-Chief
OF the army Of that young and
growing Republic. He was mar
RED IN 1879 TO a young Spanish
lady from Sevills, Kingdom Of
Castillo, Spain. Her father was
Lieutenant Fernandez, stationed at
the garrison in Centa, Africa, one
Of SPANS possessions.
Gen. Morgan met Miss Fer
nandez on board a steamer, and his
marriage was as romantic as his
life as q soldier. Adelina Euri-
quota was their only child, and her
mother died when she was four
years old, and her father died De-
cember 2, 1895, and he appointed
Hon. Luther f. Mckinney, of
Maine, and United States Minister
to the Republic of Columbia during
President Cleveland's a ministra-
ton, as her guardian, and request
ed him to bring her to his native
country to be educated IN English.
SO she arrived in this country with
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinney, February
II, 1897, and soon afterwards en-
tered the State University at Nor
gantown, where she took a years
course. She is a skilled musician
and speaks several languages flu.
emily.
Miss Morgan went to Cumber-
land, Ohio, the first Of last June to
visit her cousin, Mrs. Girton, of
that place, and there met Mr.. Will
liam Stevens, eldest son Of Hon.
and Mrs. Charles q. Stevens, n
of the best and wealthiest families
in Gurnesy county, Ohio. Mr..
Stevens is a typical young Ameri-
can, very honest, thrifty and in
dustrious, aRd some American girl
has lost a great prize on o Of
his capture by the Spanish Seno.
rita. But the "Bo0etas Seuorita,"
with her dark, lustrious eyes, &c
complished more than Blanco's
army aud Admiral Cervera's fleet,
captured : single American.
The young couple went to Co.
lumbus and Cincinnati on q short
wedding trip. On their return,
Mr. and Mrs. G.. b. Stevens will
tender them an elegant reception,
and they will visit friends in this
State, and remain IN Cumberland
till spring, where they will settle
down and 60 TO housekeeping. The
bride has many relatives in Monon.
gala aud Marion counties, this
State.
We wish the young couple a long,
happy and prosperous life, with
just enough clouds to make a glo-
rlous sunset.
Miss May Fairfax Morgan, Of
this place, attended the wedding as
brides maid. and the newly welded
couple will be 10 Kingwood TO
spend Thanksgiving with Hiss
Morgan, cousin Of the bride.
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