The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-25
ARE MARRIED
SIXTY YEARS
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver United
Six Decades.
ARE HALE AND HEARTY
Mr.. Oliver Was in Hotel That
Lafayette Stopped at

Sixty years ago at Z O'Clock last evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram oliver. Of 312 North
Emporia avenue, were married at Water
ford. Pennsylvania. Mr.. Oliver remained
al Meadvine, Pennsylvania. until he had a
good days work done and then after rav-
cling twenty-five good miles he was on
hand for the ceremony, which tookplace
at the brides home and was performed by
a United Presbyterian clergyman. Today
they will celebrate it with q dinner at
the home Of mis- son, the function being
postponed from yesterday on account OF
the absence Of one of the family.
would be hard 10 find a more ideal
couple in the state of Kansas than Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver looked TO be to a reporter
for the Eagle when he called at their
comfortable home yesterday afternoon
Mr.. Oliver at 81 looks twenty years
younger, and his robust health and clear
mind and active faculties are convincing
proof that he has profted physically by
the fact that he has never tasted drop
Of liquor or used tobacco in any form
during his long life. His complexion Is
clear and his step IS light. Barring a
slight deafness in one ear, he shows no
signs of the advanced age he has reach
ed
Mrs. oliver is seventy-nine and, like her
husband. looks twenty years younger.
Judging from her present appearance,
Mr.. Oliver must have been happy man
sixty years ago when she was undoubted-
~ as petty an eighteen-year-old girl as
there was in Pennsylvania. She enjoys
all her faculties and it takes great
stretch of the imagination to think she
is as aged as she actually is. She is a
charming little woman.
Mr.. divers father was with Perry at
the battle Of Lake Erie and during his
absence a son was born unto him, boy
two years older than the Wichita gentle
man. This boy was named Perry II.
Oliver. after the great fighter whose
name was Oliver T. Perry. Mr.. Oliver
was as familiar with the scenes Of Per
rvs exploits as a Wichita boy is familiar
with the environments of this city.
When Lafayette was on his visit to
this country he stopped at a hotel in
which Mr.. Oliver was 4 bell boy. MI
Oliver remembers the great Frenchman
as distinctly today as when he saw him
three-quarters of a century ago. Latay-
ere STAYED at the hotel some days and
Mr.. Oliver attended him. This is quite
distinction. the like of which few men
# any now living, can boast Of. For seven
wears Mr.. Oliver lived in that hotel.
When he reached manhood he learned the
bricltlayer's trade and he says that many
II the houses he built nearly seventy
wears ago are stin standing solidly. He
superintended the building Of the fine
brick home of his son Albert after com
ing 10 this city, twenty years ago. Mr.
Oliver has survived all his brothers and
sisters by twenty-five years and bids
fair to add ten or fifteen more years on
ton of that. He raised a large family,
all of whom live bat two, one twin
brother of A. VS., dying young. and
another-a fine type Of young manhod-
diving shortly after coming home from the
war. James. now clerk Of the police de-
nartment. is his Oldest son, being fifty
nine.
Mr. oliver Is very interesting gentle
man. and his numerous friends hope that
ten wears from yesterday he and Mrs.
oliver will be found in good health cele-
brating the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF
their wedding.
Wright wrongs no man. wright's old