The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-23
MARCONPS MOTHER.
THE BEAUTIFUL IRISH GIRL WHO
MARRIED AN ITALIAN FOR LOVE.

Has Been a Dominant Force i'm De-
veIoping the Genius of Her Fam
Gus Son, GuglielmO-Mrs. MarcOni
Accompanies the Inventor When
He Visits Lonely Coast stations
and Passes six Months of Every
Year With Him i'm London.
New York. Feb. 21.-When John
Jamison, the famous Dublin whiskey
manufacturer, decided to send mis-
daughter Annie to Italy to continue her
musical studies, he became uncon-
sciously a maker of history, for in the
course of time as the result of his act,
the girl met and married Giuseppe
Marconi and to this Irish-Italian union
there was born a son who is now
known to all the world as one of the
greatest scientists and inventors of
his time
Annie Jamison was beautiful, adj
venturesome girl in her teens. Her
family was well to do and she had
everything in the way of education and
training that money could buy and
Dublin could offer. Her father was
the founder of the house, so far as the
business which still bears his name
was concerned, but her, ancestry -ex-
tended back into the times of Scot
lands greatest era and her forebears
We're people of influence and power.
There is a we'll authenticated story of
one of her great-great- grandmothers
who was famous in her day for her in
telectual ability, and a sort of legend
has come down to the effect that she
prophesied that one of her descendants
would become known and honored
throughout the civilized world.
Whether this latter story was invented
since the prominence of young Marconi
matters little; certain it is that the
young man has cause to be proud of
his Scotch ancestry and particularly of
his mother. For his mother has been
Of more actual, though indirect help
to him than can be told. She it was
who encouraged him in his earliest
Efforts. The boy attended school al
together not more than three or four
Years. 1t fell to the lot of his mother
TO teach him and from her he learned
70 speak the English language, to play
Inc piano and to get a start in the
varied accomplishments which mark
MIN now as a many-sided man.
several romanceS might be written
ABOUT the wooing and winning of Annie
Jdmison, but probably none of them
would be true. Mrs. Marconi prefers
70 hide herself behind her son and to
ne known simply as his mother. OF
her courtship and marriage she will
say little, save that the former was
case of true love and the latter of
Dllrn domestic he r..
ilalN, as has been said, to continue
ner music under better instructors than
sle could have secured at home, and
~ was during her stay in Italy that
sue met dashing young Italian. The
TWO soon discovered that they had a
mutual liking for out door sports: both
,ooe Wen and the young man was not
tong IN coming to the decision that he
oIelerred the Irish girl to any of his
uNh country. In addition there was a
very happy liking for intellectual
pleas ures which they shared. The
soung man was of a good family, in
poSSession of a large estate near Bo-
m%na, the girl returned his affection
ana the inevitable happened.
b. rom the birth of her elder boy
% mas another son-Mrs. Marconi de-
,,O''o her life to his training. She
1 1toH MN with her on her travels about
',ai9 ana he accompanied her on sew
,ai visits TO her own people in Ireland
FAY England Wishing to give him the
i,eassahtages of some training In Eng
an, she remained with him for two
aus IN Bedford, where the boy at
tnued a school and learned his LETT
VT ana numbers. The selection OF
hpper tutors and Instruction for the
NY was made by his mother. simply
'use he was her first thought and
.s, now. When he began 10 show
G 'ht M chemistry and electricity
t"l 20 construct little instruments. she
him getting books and periodi-
IL, mat would guide him in right
Indeed, wherever mothers
E 'ould possibly do anything for her
he had anticipated the desire
thought u was not strange. then.
'uFiiclmo Marconi made such
ni0Rrosa in his studies and bee
inll grown man in experience
'' was still boy ~ 10. Money
Fni freely for him and every
s.t hh'mcnt waa given him in biz
often tue Of parents that the