The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-09
WEDS NURSE WHO
RESTORED HIS HEAL TIL
Col. Charles A. Morton, Million.
alre, and Miss Anna Helen
Swanson Are Married.

That a young woman nurse Is sweet is
an historical fact established by romance;
that pretty nurse is irresistible needs
no demonstration by melodrama. And
when the pretty nurse is st. Paul girl,
the happy helpless patient Dakota mil
lionaire, and the wedding takes place
within six days, Northwestern muses.
have composed a charming poem on the
following argument
Married, in ST. Paul, March Z, at the
residence of Rev. Alexander McGregor,
7S6 Grand avenue, Miss Anna Helen
Swanson, of st. Paul, and Col. Charles A.
Morton, of Fargo, N. D."
While staying at the Hotel Ryan
week ago Col. Morton was taken i'll. His
physician summoned nurse; she came;
and the colonel improved at once. But
his malady, as he soon discovered to his
great delight, had now become compli-
Gated with cardiac affection, which the
attending physician was quite unable to
control. The attentions of the nurse in
creased the colonels pleasure and his
pain. It was left for the patient himself
to discover a remedy. Monday morning
he dispatched his own prescription to
jewelry store, where 1t was promptly
compounded. The same morning the first
dose was administered In the form OF a
diamond ring, but to the nurse, not her
charge The colonel's graver symptoms
subsidized promptly. :,
Eight hours later second exhibition
Of the same remedy in the presence OF
DR.. Alexander McGregor, pastor OF the
Park Congregational church. brought 20
nurse, wedding ring, husband and a
fortune.
Rated Millionaire.
3 "Col. Morton" says a dispatch from
Fargo, has been one of the most proml-
nenta citizens of Fargo for the last TWEEN
q yfnr1 -ix nYlO
tor in grain and farm lands and is rated
as a millionaire. He served with distinc-
ton in the Civil war. Before coming here
he was for, many years partner 1eT with T.,
Michael Doran, the st. Paul capitalist In
real estate transactions.
"The colonel is sixty-five years old;
This is his third marriage. His FIRST
wife, the daughter of distinguished
Southern family, died year and half
ago."
ed man of medium height, with iron gray
hair, mustache, and Napoleon, and with
something of military manner. His rec
reations are literary; his library Is one
of the best in North Dakota.
Miss Swanson is tall maiden whose
hair is black whose large eyes are dark
gray and whose form is more Junoesque
than Gibsonian. She is Twenty-Five years
old.
The bride was born on the shores of
the Baltic. In her childhood her father re-
moved to Red Wing, Mimi, where the
family of twelve children is well known.
Miss Helen came to st. Paul in 1892. One
of her sisters had married here the. late
Dr. Uriah Branch, son of the prominent
local pioneer. William Branch Some five
years ago Miss Helen entered the nurses
school at the city hospital and was grad
uated three years later with unusual hon
ors. She has since been in constant de-
mand by doctors with Critical cases"
Miss Swanson has been known among
her associates not only for her profession
al skill, but for her Grecian figure and
her familiarity with the English poets.
panion last night, that Helen knew
Shakespeare backwards"