The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-03
GOLDEN WEDDING
Mr.. and Mrs. Ii. ID. Fishers
Fifty Years Of Matrimony.
Friends and Relatives Honor
the Venerable Couple.
KANSAS PHONE E RS
Many CongratuIatory kilograms
Were Received.
What is Transpiring in Topeka
Society Circles.
KANSAS PIONEER s

One OF the happiest golden wedding
anniversaries ever celebrated in kan
sas was that of Rev. DR.. H D and
Mrs. E NJ. Fisher, at their city home
on Fillmore street, in Topeka on Mon
day
This venerable couple have been in
Kansas for more than 40 years, hav-
ing come from P1ttsburg in the terri
toria1 days. three years before the ad-
mission of Kansas to statehood
Their journey was full of hazard and
discomfort, requiring full three weeks
Of time to compass q trip now possible
in a day and a half the distance being
wholly covered by steamboat travel,
down the Ohio to Cairo, up the Mis-
S1sSIppi to the mouth of the Missouri
and up the Big Muddy to Leaven worth,
then the metropolis of the west. boast
ing a population of less than 5000
From noon until nearly midnight,
their friends thronged to their home to
the number OF several thousand to con-
graduate them on their good fortune
in having been able to successfully
withstand the danger and deprivation
of so years together.
Not only was Topeka well represent
ed by friends. both young and old by
members of the Grand Army of the Re
public and various secret associations,
but there were also present many of
the aged couples from AtchiSOn. Wa
megO, CherryvaIe, WestmOreIand. Eff
dughan, and many other points, while
many letters and teIegrams Of cougrat-
ulation were received Among them
were the following
You have golden wedding because
You kept the golden rule.
BISHOP AILLSPAUGH."
Greetings, congratulations, benedic-
ton fifty fold TO you and wife
JOHN H VINCENT"
Among the guests who were present
were the following:
Rev Calvin Holman and wife, Rev.
B. T. Bowman. Rev. DR.. G. s. Dear
born, Rev. John D Knox, wife and
daughter. Rev. John Martin and daugh-
ter, Rev. d D. Cheney and wife, Rev
Dr. Denison and wife. Rev L. L HoI-
land and wife. Rev. Mr. SidweH and
wife, Judge A H Horton and wife
Judge ]. A Johnston and wife, Judge
John Guthrie and wife, Col c K HoI-
Hday and wife Judge J. G. Wood and
wife, P. L Ronebrake and wife, Joab
Mulvane and wife, D. A MuIvane and
wife, John B Bartholomew and wife,
Char plain Whitehead Mr. and Mrs E
NJ Heacock. Mr.. and Mrs. w ". Well
come and daughters. Mr. and Mrs Z.
Houser. Mr.. and Mrs 5. NJ Cope Mr.
and Mrs J. 2. Wight, Mr. and Mrs c
s Baker, DR. c F Menn1nger and
Mr. l. + SweringeF, Mrs L. V Mar
tin, Mrs. Martha Allen Mrs s R Mil
lard, Mrs j. b GatcheIl Mrs Grace
Sharitt and daughter, Judge George
Huron Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. GatcheII,
Mr.. and Mrs NJ Myers. Mr.. and Mrs.
D W. MiIIard. Mr., and Mrs r. e
Eddy, Mr. and Mrs Frank L Wagon
er Mr. and Mrs T. E Stevans, Mr.
and Mrs E B Walker. Mr.. and Mrs.
w NJ. WeIIhouse. Mr.. and Mrs Better.
Mr.. and Mrs C G. CoIburn. Mr. and
Mrs Philip Lux. Prof and Mrs b T.
Eyers- Prof and Mrs. E H Heacock.
Mr.. and Mrs Homer Boughton and
daughters, Mrs. Robert Pugh. Miss
Minnie Pugh. Mrs Deibert Knox and
daughters, Mr. and Mrs Peter He'll,
DR.. A. J. Huntoou, Mrs s E Doane.
Mrs. John Norton, A c. CambpeIl. G.
G. Gage
Out of town guests were Rev. T B.
Gray, wife and daughters. Of Evan
ston; Miss Emma PixIey, Wamego:
Mrs Ida EmbIey, Wamego; Mrs. G. A
Richmond. Wamego. Mrs. Mary H
Chilcott and daughter of Wamego;
Mrs Margaret Atchison- bingham,
Ill. Mrs Annie High bingham. III;
Miss Perry Bundy. WestmoreIand.
DR. and Mrs Fishers three sons. Mr.
J. w Fisher of Atchison, DR. C E
Fisher of Chica go, and H F Fisher of
Kansas. were present and engaged the
feIicItatiOn Of the occa sion with their
aged and hoFabIe parents.
j notable feature Of the family re-