Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-30
SOME COURTsHIPS.
First Meetings of Well-Known Men
With Their Future Wives.

Marriage has always been one of the
worlds greatest themes. The great
thing, wise philosopher said, is to
get the right girl There is no stereo-
typed way of getting her. Just as men
have found different ways of propos-
ing, so there have been endless ways in
which men have met their fates.
Horace Greeley and Mary Young
Cheney were married the first day
they met They had correspondent for
some time. common friend, who was
something of matchmaker, having
brought this about. She was all his
fancy painted her, but she was much
disappointed in his appearance, so much
SO that when he appeared before her,
having proposed and been accepted by
letter, she frankly told him that, al
though she married him, she was not
in love with him. Their married life
was long and happy, and the loss of
his wife was a blow which Greeley
did not long survive.
The second time that Bismarck met
Fraulein Johanna Puttkamer he
kissed her in the presence of num-
Der of guests. The immediate effect
of this behavior was the prompt an
nouncement of the betrothal, which
was soon followed by the marriage.
Fraulein Puttkamer was a brides
maid for friend the first time Bis
marck saw her. These two young
people, as Rosalino says, mo sooner
met than they looked, no sooner look
ed than they loved
The first marriage of Jefferson
Davis was of a romantic character.
Failing desperately in love with Sallie
Taylor, daughter of Col. Zachary Tay-
Tor, who did not approve of the attach
ment, the young people took matters
in their own hands and eloped. Six
teen years passed before "Old Zach
would speak to his son-inIaw, and
then it was because he and his regi-
ment had covered themselves with
glory at the battle of Buena Vista.
The first time Mary Todd met
Lincoln she said to her sister: That
man will be president one of these
days He will make a husband to be
proud Of" About that time Lincoln's
chances of becoming president seemed
as remote as possible, and Mary's sis
ter laughed the idea to scorn. A few
months afterward Mary Todd was
married to ugly Abe,'' and in Ii years
| the prediction was fulfilled. AS a child
the future Mrs. Lincoln had prophesied
that she would become the wife of a
president of the United States.
With Henry NJ Stanley, the explorer,
F! it was ''love my daughter, love me-
Mrs. Tenant persistently refused to
consent to her daughter marrying
Dolly is all that have left and can
not, shall not, part with her." But to
entreaties she finally yielded, she
said. Il want your daughter for my
wife," Stanley said, 'give her to me
and do you at the same time become
my mother, father, brother and sister.
'She is yours" replied mamma, "and
SO am L." That, in brief, is the story
of Stanley's wooing, and Mrs. Ten
| 1duC uS ILLS dSo Ill Gpd1 duly 1uu Inu1S-
solubly as her daughter is, and Mr.
Stanley is said to be a model husband
and tractable son.
1t was through his novel, The Sca1r
Hunters, that Captain Mayne ReiG
won bride. He was 80 years ole
when he met damsel of 13, with
whom he at once fell in love. The
child took no notice of him, but he
gave her the story to read-as effective
manner of counting in this nine
teenth century as ever was Othello's
!, in an earlier one. Two years later the
| young lady was at a public meeting
where Captain Reid spoke on behal1
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