The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-12-29
NOTED BACHELORS.
Men of Mark in Politics, Art and Lit
a-a+ure Who Never Married.

| Men of Mark In Politics, ATT anu ~
erature Who Never Married.
Samuel ]. TiIden was the richest
American who ever entered puDllc me
and remained single to the end Oh hiS
| DAVIS. His persistent celibacy was re-
markable. for, unlike most Others MI
Tilden was born with money, ana thu'
from his youth was considered ellslO4e
by the mammals of many young "olil-
ell.
No republican of half Mr.. Tilden
prominence has gone through life Win
ont marrying, but inciuding DaNld
Bennett Hill, who seems TO be CON
firmed bachelor, denocracy's rolls
show a noteworthy triumvirate Of the
distinguished celibates, James Buchan-
an, the only bat helor president, BENG
the third member thereof. Buchanan
is understood to have refrained from
taking wife because the girl upon
whom he set his youthful affections
was obdurate. He is said to have re-
GREETED the single state to the day ot
his death. MIR. Hill, on the other hand'
is reported to be a bachelor from
choice.
Literature has furnished a long
string of names to t. e list of eminent
bachelors Possibly the best-known UNI
married man of letters to-day is Henry
James, the novelist. lie maintains
stcutiy that the artist, no matter what
the medium Of his expression, should
remain single, on the ground that the
petty cares and carpings of domestic
life tend to wear on deicately adjust
Ell nerves and eXhGusts the mental H.
bre OF genius, whether its possessor be
a painter of pictures, a worker IN
words, a moLeller OF statues, compos-
er Of music, a singer or one who
anluses the people from the stage.
john Greenlcaf Whittier was bach
eor, though not from :he same cause
as the brilliant fiction writer mentioned.
Whittier was a great adniirer of the
married state, we arc told, and in his
boyhooa had a blua-eyed rej-Ch eke1
New England cir for his sWetthe TT.
Together they wejt t. school IS chill
dIen, ana when tlsJ eW to youths
estate he told her the story most girls
like to hear She beard it gladly too,
but he was poor an3 n poet and love
must wait FOR recognition. She prom
iaed, but waiting is weJriso}ne before
recognition came To- the young gentle
vcrse-maEor she fora0 him as a lover
ar@ was marrieI t. some one else
r. word Iitzmcra y, thu transl tor Of
Omar EahyyaE quatrains. Was a
bachelor. and There Was ~ romerca in
Iii. lir. ,,,,-1, ill, the .,,n which e,a-
Gana1 Y-Ii.tfs,'a hat t,efa wac little
ole, which tse,, I,ai T., ,.r,,-.,r, Tho
sriEacy of Cb3r,es lamb was rutl
Of tboq. fer he remained single all
l.s lir, thet ho pirl,t .,9re rnr his sic.
for 1-s-..,:,a Io}n +; ,,ro,7r.,,e n tn
.r,ff-+ ae ,,.I, nc W.T. mi -..-4 ~ ~.
n,asf ,1a,,.,ios, NJ Ven rae ,,a,e,, mar.
fi,- MI, I,rrro,.ol,. nc ,,ot oven ,
v....,,4n bat.r neither b,q anv one owe,
s,In5;ged that a romance caused his
baeh7lcihood.
THE only literary bacb.foi. who is ac-
l,rnlv1edne1 to he . h.fr,. of women IL
tho Enolish poet. Afga.nnn Charles
Sv inI,urne. His sentiment anpears to
be based uDon the fear that a woman
de..rrfntion as a life mariner. and the
co7victfon thot tho clever woman is
the l,aet attractive of her sev
Cuiy one noted Protestant divine has
hecn n bachelor. He was Philin Brooks
who finished life as RishoD of the Ennis
conal Church. and seemingly possessed
every quality desirable in a model hus-
band. The cause of his remaining sim
gla appears never to have been under