The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-11
How The Bride of Chauncey S%tIlirnan
Won His Heart by FER Devotion to
Him-Has Achieved a Notable
Social Triumph.

the SnlarleSt set Assembled 10 90 iOlot
to the little dark-eyed girl from Maine,
the daughter OF plain Amos l.. Wight,
a jeWeier IN a snlal way in the city or
Augusta. The bride of one OF the rich
est yuung men in America was neither
embarrassed by he experience nor un-
duly elated by the friendship OF the
mighty. She met the wives of the most
powerful American iinancie"s with the
same frank good will she would have
extended to the wives Of kings or peas
ants. She extended to them the same
measure of friendship they offered to
her.
What this simple little woman from
Maine has accomplished could be zone
with the same ease and saYoir talre by
any other American girl under the
same circumstances Mary Estelle
Wight was lucky enough to meet a
golden opportunity. She did not seek
It. Even when the young 'multi-lnll-
icnaire a-dently professed his love she
was calm and sane enough to bid nm
wait a few years. TO make sure that she
was really the one woman in the world
for him.
Son of a Famous Millionaire.
Everybody who is anybody knows
who James Stillman is-the president
of the National City bank, of New
York. that staIwart financial institution
to which men in enViOuS tones refer as
'the Rockefeller bank or the stand
ard Oil bank" TO mention the null
tiple millions of dollars that march and
work under the control Of that bank is
to staggeT the Imagination OF the aver
age citizen. The power this bank eX-
erts in the world of finance, that
mighty and hidden world whose least
throb is heavily felt by every
in the ountr is something that no
one can calculate.
Charles Chauncey Stillman is he son
of he president of that mighty bank,
His bride. upon whom the most fash
IonabIe society of this hemisphere has
uDcouiyocally set the seal OF its APP
nroy;l is the daughter of a poor jew
sIar, re was first a farmer, and hen
finding ii impossible to wiring a living
from the thin soil of Maine, went to
hng,,sfa and opened a store. Yet when
the Young millionaire began TO WOO hsf,
tho 400 MANS daughter babe him WAIT,
49, ~, hida Vic time. as If he were
no bot+a,. than any poor farmer's SON.
trIat i1a n1aIIv won her hand Is due to
his LOYALTY ana worth, not the glamour
~ his ,ms9lth ~. social station.
~ IT. c;,..-ou, e+ory
!, I'hS ING I'|' ~ a...-,
The story sounds llHe the SI4"eIst!G
myth-DfouSAt ~ s'Ne 80 -
, placed IN d severe [AILsi :, =.
, Inc NlSNtS nav thiCS
. whom Mary I>steLe IS tle eiIest' Nj
-e'--
, Ing, tried running a pedaIeI Wa5gI
: about the sparse Name country "h'!e
= and then SeltieQ Gown 70 uToIitS -
jeWeir%. -'i"IH Is" n"lIi,
: education afforded by me P!oAl
: schools of Augusta n 1urtheFed oS
f., the high school course. men sue sHst!
: two years at st. catherine 5 nan,
= local finishing school uhoSf IN
= auspices Of the Episcopal cNurSh' ~
. girl then applied to a Mrs Murray, IN
= milliner OF Augusta, LOT ellpIol 1neli
and instruction in that dlilcult arl. TO
some reason Mrs. Murray re5eclea het
SO Mary Esteile went TO session an
endured a severe course OF training |
various hospitals before she was grad
: uated as i trained nurse. 1t was /
this capacity that she met, SIN year
. ago, the man who Is now proud 10 D
. her husband.
9 Young Stillman was a STUDENT az fa'
g ward. He was not Of the usual rlch-stt
II dent type, a dabbler IN llghter ath'etc'
i, a rooter for the big teams and a srea
y patron Of automopiilty and the easier W
% riety of the drama. He was no athle'
! at all, an earnest c~tlurchman, ph-tal
thropist and Sunday school worker. II
l. taught a class in the Harrison aVent
IF mission in Boston's Sums. 1t chance
J. that this youn man fell sick OF typho'
Sc pneumonia three years ago. HIS lie We
J. for a while ~despatred OF. but the sclent
l. and infinite care of the doctors az
N nurses Of Harvard hospital. an inst.tunc
J. to which his father had largely contri
ic uted, at last started him on the road
IL recovery.
h His convalenscence was long drawn OF
j. He was very weak. 1t was necessai
IN that some one should read to him, ente
re tain him for many hours each dag.
re Mary Estelle Wight CHANGED 70 be 4
IS nurse selected for this employment. S
l. was a rather tall. slender girl of 20 veal
black-haired, brown-eyed most serious
re her devotion to her chosen profession, y
at of a cheerful. kindly. sympathetic natui
al Young ;Stillman fell under its charm
an once. He knew enough not TO alarm {