Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-17

tent, Il was arranged that the eight
bridesmaids should an pe gins rams
ing from IS to u years old, WINE INC
eight grOomsmen should be or the sa'is
age as the groom.
Jessie Benton, then IA, was one OF me
bridesmaids, and she was escorted ~
the altar by james Buchanan, lately
returned to the United states as minls-
ter TO Russia and thea q senator OIL the
United stutes. ON tnis occasion MISS
Benton wore her first long gown, ana
the beautiful young bride was given
away by Henry Clay IL was a curious
coincidence chat Miss Benton'5 escofl
on this occasion should have been the
man who in 1856 WAS the successful
candidate for president OF the United
states against her husband, Gen. Ere
mont.
During her girhood her father, SEN
ator Benton, was often at the White
House In conference with President
Jackson, "Old Hickory" The llttle girl
was q great favorlte with the presi-
dent. and frequently her father took
her With him on his visits 70 the exc
cutlve mansion.
President Jackson was accustomed,
when he sat down TO talk with Senator
Benton TO call the child to his side and
carelessly pat her long curls with his
hand. Sometimes as he warmed with
his talk his long fingers would uncOn.
sciol9ly take a tighter grip IN the little
girls hair. and occasionally by way or
emphasis, he would give the girls curls
u painful pull
In order not to interrupt the debate
little Miss Benton had learned to exer-
else Spartan courage on snch ooeas-
ions, and her father recognizing her
fortitude. praised her courage highly.
10 the day Of her death the memory
Of these White House interviews was
a source Of mingled horror and amuse-
meit 10 Mrs, Fremont.
when the Civil war broke out Gen.
Fremont. though still smarting under
his defeat for the presidency, quickly
took his place In the armies OF the
Union. Mrs Fremont was at the time
living at ST. Louis, where much OF her
glilhoOd had been spent and where she
was surrounded by Old time friends,
hut as the wife Of a Union general
she was left practically alone by the
slave holding aristocracy and the
sympathlzers of st. Louis,
and fer months she suffered greatly.
When her husband took the field Mrs.
Fremonts hair was a warm and sunny
brown When, a few months later, she
left 81 Louis for good 1t had turned
to a snowy white.
For the first eight years OF her mar
rled life Mrs Fremont lived most OF
the tine IN her fathers home at Wash
lngton, Finally In 1919, she started to
join her husband on the Pacific coast,
going by way Of the isthmus Of Pam
ANA, She landed safely In the city Of
Panama, but after a few days there
she was stricken with fever and for
nearly two months lay critically III.
In 1850 Mrs. Fremont purchased a
tract Of land for 81 900 on Black Point,
San francisco On this land she erect
ed house and other buildings at a to-
tai cost OF $4,000. In 1863 the secretary
Of war ordered Gen. Wright, then In
Of the department Of the
Pacific to seize Black Point and erect
4 battery upon 1t, lie did so, taking
possession Of Mrs. Fremont's property
as wei as that or other residents.
After the war repeated attempts
we're made to get the government to
pay for the property thus seized, but
hey were all IN vain. and but for the
pension allowed her by Congress and
he pretty home given her by the worn-
IN OF California. which stet N and
her husband saved 10 -. ~
States, Mrs. Fremont might have sst
'ered keenly from the pans : W.
,rty.
Lieut.. Commander John c. Fremont,
y, 8, NJ, and Capt Francis p. Fremont,
y, S. A.. sons Of Jessie Benton Free
mont, and the formers son, who is al |
20 IN the navy and who made his mark |
n the Spanlsh-American war, survive, |
ogether with the daughter who has
or so many years made the care Of her |
mother the one object OF her life.-Chi- |
ago Tribune.