The age-herald., 1900-05-02
WEDDINGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
RomanceS That Have Had Their Continuation in the Historic
 Home of Presidents.

If Miss Mabel Mckinley weds MT. Her manus Bear in the white house this spring hers will be the tenth wedding, so the best authorities assert, that has occurred in the historic mansion.
 The first white house marriage was that of Miss Todd of Philadelphia, who was married In the East room in 1911. She was a relative of Mrs. Madison, and was hand ed forth to a happy married life by the president Their first baby was named James Madison Jackson; and the two Jack sons, father and son, were well known in Washington for sixty years.
 Maria Monroe married Samuel Gouver- neug in the whIte h0uss in 1920 the p.si pressi- dent weeping bitterly at giving his daugh- ter away, though the groom was an esti- mable and prominent man in New York.
 John Quincy Adams, in 1926, saw his son John married to his cousin Helen. This wedding took place In the Blue room and was very merry; 1t was followed by se- ries of brilliant entertainments
 Andrew Jackson consented to have two weddings take place in the white house during his administrations and one we'd ding reception. The last was the most brilliant affair of the three, though it was after the ceremony of marriage had been performed. Andrew Jackson, Jr having married Miss Yorke of Philadelphia brought her home to Washington where a great entertainment was given.
 The wedding of the Jackson administra- tion were those of Miss Mary Lewis, a friend of the family who married a French man from Martinique; and the other was that of Miss Easten of Tennessee, a niece of the president, who married MT. Polk, of the same state.
 Elizabeth Tyler was married in the White House in 1S42; and shortly after the wedding Mrs. Tyler died Just two years later the president brought home from New York lovely bride of twenty and the White House was again the scene of much joy. John c. Calhoun escorted the bride to the supper table and assisted her in cutting the cake, while all Washington was present with its congratulations.
 It was thirty years, according to the written history of the White House be- fore another wedding occurred in the old mansion. But in 1874 Nellie Grant, only and well-beloved daughter of President Grant, was married to Algernon Sartoris. The affair was by far the grandest one ever known. in the White House, and the wagons containing the wedding gifts lit- erally blocked the streets.
 A wedding took place in the White House during the administration of Presi- dent Hayes when quiet, pretty little Miss Platt, niece ofthe president married Gen. eral Hastings, a war friend of the execu- tive. The occasion was made as quiet as possible and there were few invitations outside the immediate family.
 By far the most notable wedding that ever occurred in the White House was that of President Cleveland and Miss Frances Folsom in 1886. The bride, a girl of 21, wed. ded the chief executive, man of 49; and al the officials of Washington were there tt see. The invitations were verbal ones bu sufficient number were spoken to fill tn, house.
 The bride, who had recently returned from Europe, arrived in Washington in tht morning with her mother, and was met by Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland. sister of tho president. She was welded in a gown oi white satin embroidered In orange blossoms To avoid the waiting throng the pair es capped from the White House ground. through an opening at the rear; and witt all speed left Washington for a wedding tour leaving their whereabouts unknown.
 Miss Mckinley is the daughter of Abnel Mckinley, a wealthy New Yorker. She has spent much of the past three years r the white house, and the president has given his consent to have the marriage performed there. It is understood, how. ever; that all will hinge upon the health oi Mrs Mckinley, who has been very feeble of late.
 MT. Baer is student at the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia and is a young man of much promise.