The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-27
Big Men Aided by Their Wives
Noteworthy Cases of Mrs John A. Logan and Nine Faleres

mediately. Within a year after mar
riage he was elected TO the State Legis-
latUre. and. in 1853. a year before the
election of Lincoln. which precipitated
the civil war. to the lower house Of
Congress. It is not true, as Logan's de-
tractors used TO say, that he owed all his
success 10 his wife, for he had got fairly
started on the upward ladder before their
marriage. but. young as she was, she
was undoubtedly of much help to him IN
his first two political campaigns
Logan enlisted IN the Northern army
with the breaking out of the war, fought
bravely and was desperately wounded. but
survived, rose to be major general, and as
soon as the fighting WAS over re-entered
Congress.
Mrs Logan had played her part of a
soldiers wife well all through the war;
she now began to do her share again in
politics. With her own hands she made
out hundreds of back pay and pension
claims for her husbands constituents,
often got the evidence required for them
and did everything needful, all without a
penny Of expense to the applicants. At
the same time she lived the society life
of the Capital as it then existed, was
her own housekeeper, and not infrequent-
~, working at the dead Of night. helped
her husband get together the data for his
addresses. both in and out of Congress.
No doubt she helped him write many
and she criticised every one Of them
She helped him get into the Senate; she
helped him IN his struggle for the Vice
Presidential nomination, though she
thought he should have been the Presi-
DENTAL and she was happy tn his promi-
nence. Then came his death, which at
Er-e p, Ill
It was not long, however before she
was working as hard for the advance
meut Of her son. John A. Logan, jr., as
she had for his fathers. After two years
az West Point he had dropped out, but
when the Spanish war came on he en-
listed, was given the rank of captain
and served as an aide de camp in Cuba.
Later she helped him get an appointment
as an officer of the line and he went 10
the Philippines. where he was killed in
1899. This second bereavement was al
most a harder blow than the first. but
she is unusually active for a woman Of
her years to-day
Although Mrs LOgan's activities be-
fore her first bereavement was all in be-
half of her husband. they We're not all
centered on her son In the years immedi-
ately following. She became editor OF a
monthly periodical. which. by reason Of
her great popularity with the Grand
Army. reached "a circulation Of nearly half
a million, each issue containing an in
stallment of her "reminiscences and cur
rent letter on Washington events.
In 1899 she paid a long visit to Europe
where. through American diplomatic rep
resentatives, she met Victoria. Bismarck
Gladstone. and the Shah of Persia. who
was visiting England Her comments
upon this Oriental potentate were naive
and refreshing; indeed. her comments
generally were highly original and de-
cidedy entertaining In 1893 she made
another extended foreign stay. In 1894
when Clara Barton gave up the American
leadership Of the Red Cross. Mrs. Logan
took the place for the time being.
Calumet Place, where Mrs Logan lives
with her daughter-in-Iaw, young Jack
Logans widow. is practically museum
filled with mcmcntOs Of Gen. Logan. his
military and political campaigns and his
friends.
Mrs Logan has rarely worn anything
but black since her husbands death, and
she always wears an open-faced locket or
brooch. displaying the generals portrait
at her throat
Nine. WHddinEtOn Famous.
Nine. Mary King Waddingtou. now
resident of New York. "a part of the time
is undoubtedly the best known in high
places in foreign lands OF all living Amer
lean women who have been exceptionally
helpful 10 their husbads. Nine. King
was an American girl when she met and
was wooed by VI. Washington, and she
was much more fortunate than some
married life of the WaddingtOns was most
ideal
Nine Washington belongs to an il
lustri0us American family Rufus King.
who was Minister 10 England from 1896
10 1903 ana again In 1885, was an an
ccstor. The second Gen. Rufus King a
writer as well as a soldier, was her father.
Writing runs in her family. The first
Rufus King helped Alexander Hamilton
write the famous "Camillus letters and
Gen Charles King, brother of Nine. Wad-
dingtOn, is one of the famous n0yelists Of
to-day. Nine. Waddington's own book.
Letters of a Diplomats Wife, publish
ed two or three years ago by the Scrib-
ners. is the product of a skilled pen and
the result of keen but not unkiudiy OBJ
servation
Miss Mary King went 70 England soon
after the close Of the civil war. She met
NJ. Washington i'm England, and they
We're married In 1874 He died in 1884,, af-
ter a remarkable public career. during
ten years OF which he heldNhe high place
Of French ambassador TO Great Britain.
He was relieved of that post some
months before his death, Notwithstanding
his undoubted great services TO the
French republic, because he was SO
English"
There was more truth than fancy in
that Washington was intensely loyal to
his own country. but he was of English
blood on both sides, and his Christian
Hames-Willidm Henry-as well as his
family name, were English. His grand
father was "a Nottinghamshire man who
established himself in France as cot
ton manufacturer more than hundred
years ago.
His wife was English and his son. faith
or of William Henry. married an English
woman named Pendrell. perhaps q de
scendant Of the Pendrell who gave shell
ter to Charles the Second. William Hen
ry was educated at the Great English
public school at Rugby and at Cambridge
University. where he was q famous ath-
lete. as well as a student of distinction.
Thus both by blood and education lac
was English, He spoke the language like
m Englishman, and it was rs much used
at his home in France as the French
perhaps more.
But In spite Of all this. the Wadding-
tons We're thoroughly FTeach In senti-
ment. and this made himan unusually val
liable representative 81 the British court.
for he was naturally perfectly familiar
with the English point Of view The
French understood this, and n0twith-
standing the whispered reason given for
mis- final retirement he was retained IN
the post FOR ten years, an unusually long
time for u French ambassador 10 remain
at any one post.
Although n. WaddinstOn had been mar
ried before he took his American wife. il
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