The Republican journal., 1908-11-12
A Happy Half Century.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent Celebrate Golden An
niversary in Novel Way.

| EVdHSCOu, ILL.,, muck, OCt. ~, 1915.
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Sargent or
September 18th completed fifty years Of
their married life together. To mark
the event in way differing somewhat
from the conventional golden wedding
Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent have this week
sent out to relatives and friends the
country over, beautiful portraits of them
selves with the simple but very express
sive legend, Fifty years together.''
From their pictures it may easily be
seen that the half century of married
life has been for them full of happiness.
Their looks belle their years, for thew
certainly seem to both have found the
fountain of perpetual youth Both are
robust and hearty, their hearts as young
as ever, and they enter with greatest
zest into all forms of rational amusement,
taking their parts skillfully and we'll
Mr.. Sargent is a somewhat noted golf
er, and has to his credit many perform
ances at Glen View, on the links of the
Country Club at Belleair, Florida, Bon
Air, Augusta, Georgia, and elsewhere.
With equal skill he joins in cowboy pool
of an afternoon at the Evanston Club
with others of his ''old young" associ-
dleS, WIZ IeCIedte IleIe HdDlIudlly III
the afternoon.
A SON OF MAINE.
Mr.. Sargent was born in Sedgwick,
Me-, March 20, 1880, being of a family
whose members took an important part
in the early histories and who date from
pre-revolutionary times. Mrs. Sargent
is of the same stock and pages could be
written of the early colonial history of
both families.
They have just returned from a very
pleasant summer trip in Europe, and
when Mr.. Sargent landed from the La
Savoie at pier AZ in the East river on
September 10Th, he was reminded Of the
fact that just fifty years before on Sep
TENDER 10Th, he had landed at pier in the
East river, coming from Boston on their
honeymoon trip on what was then a pa
latial Sound" steamer, and the occasion
was great deal more momentous to him
then than when he landed the other day
from the immense $4,000 ton ocean liner.
Mr.. Sargent was reared on farm, OBJ.
tanned the common school education OF
the day, and at Is years went to work
for his brother as a clerk in Sargentville,
Me. He remained there few years and
was the first postmaster of that town.
Going to Boston he clerked there few
years, returning to Maine, formed a part
nership with his brother, removed to Bos-
ton and formed a copartnership in the
ship-chandler business, under the name
of Durham & Sargent, and later removed
to New York and continued the same
business under the name of Thayer 4
Sargent. They remained there until 1870
and were such loyal Republicans that
their store was known as the black Re-
publican store, and Mr.. Sargent has
never changed his political beliefs from
that day till this.
MADE SUCCESS IN WEST.
Coming west in 1870 he was interested
and later, in Des MONIES, Iowa, was con-
nected with another manufacturing con-
Germ. In 1876 he came to Chicago, their
company being the first in the United
States to manufacture brake shoe for
railway cars, and he was at the head
of it. Reorganized in 1877, and in 1893
formed as a new corporation with Mr..
Sargent as it's president, they had
career of uninterrupted prosperity. Their
factories were repeatedly enlarged and
a large plant which was established at
Chicago Heights was finally sold to the
American Brake Shoe and Foundry Com
pany.
While Mr. Sargent has retired from
active business, he is large stockholder
in several of the corporations growing
out of the business which he founded,
and his sons, William D. and George H.,
have been intimately connected with the
management of these large corporations.
His son, George H. Sargent, has recently
come on from New York and formed the
Sargent Holingshead company, manu-
featuring certain railway supplies, and
William D. Sargent is still in New York
and prominently connected with these
same corporations.
A COLONIAL FAMILY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent We're married in
Winterport, Me-, September Is, 1858,
Mrs Sargent being Helen Maria Dur
ham, who was born in Freedom, Me-,
February Is, 1884, the Durhams being
family of distinguished descent, who
traced directly back to the Mayflower.
Besides the two sons, William D., who is
living in New York with his family, and
George H., who, with his family, is now
living in Evanston at his fathers home,
their daughter, Annie Cushing, is married
to Henry K. Gilbert, and now living in
Chicago.
The Sargents came to Evanston In 1877
and very shortly after built the home
which they now occupy, at the corner OF
Grove street and Hinman avenue. Mrs.
Sargent is broad in her sympathies and
in her charities, interested in all the
work of the Methodist church, with which
they are both connected, and both she
and her husband in their home are young
as the youngest of their children, bright,
active, cheerful and content, leading
themselves sunshiny life and rejecting
the sunshine upon all with whom they
come in contact.
Their many friends are offering them
congratulations, and that their hopes OF
many more anniversaries may easily be
realized is indicated by the fact that OF
the family of eleven, Of which Mr.. Sar-
gent was the youngest, brothers are now
living and hearty at the age of 90, 81 and
81, sister at 81, and two who have pass
ed away lived beyond the age of 80.
Pleasant, sure, easy, safe little liver Pills
are DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Sold by r.
H. Moody.