The Washington herald., 1910-07-07

The MARRIAGES. announced OF Miss Porua
Chase Sprague to Mr.. Joseph n. Whitney.
OF this city. The ceremony was perform
ed In Atlantic City on July /. The bride
is a daughter of former Coy. William
Sprague. of Rhode Island. and OF Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague, one OF the most
beautiful and most brilliant women in
the social and political history of this
country.
The bride has been employed In the
Second Auditors Office since the death
of her mother. about eleven years ago.
The bridegroom is many years her senior.
and has been employed in the Treasury
Department for probably forty years. He
! has been widower a few years. and has
paid marked attention to the daughter of
Kate Chase Sprague for a long time. The
marriage does not come as a surprise 10
any Of their friends, although they made
no previous announcement OF H.
This marriage brings TO mind the career
Of Mrs. Sprague, who was known the last
/ few years of her life as Mrs Chase. f."
Her children were also known by that
name for some years before her death.
/ according 10 her expressed wishes. Gov.
Sprague was estranged from his children
for many years after the divorce of the
beautiful Kate Chase but shortly before
her death they became reconciied, espe-
cially the new Mrs. Whitney. who became
very good friends with her father and
his second wife
She visited them frequently at their
splendid place. Canonchet. near Provi-
| dence, r. l., and has spent her vacations
there for many summers. Her father has
/ visited Washington often the last few
years. and spends considerable time with
/ HIS youngest daughter. The oldest daugh-
ter Ethel, who made some name for her
self on the stage as a girl. Is now mar
ried ana lives in New York She never
became reconeiled TO her father.
The second daughter, Kitty, has been an
invalid almost throughout her life These
! three daughters separated at Edgewood,
In the suburbs of this city, after the fu-
neral services Of their mother. They had
lived there for about eight years. their
finances so crippled that they withdrew
almost entirely from intercourse with
| their closest friends.
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was Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. who
was one of their few visitors, and who
had known their mother in her youth
and power as hostess for her distin-
guished father.
| The latter was at various times Chief
Justice. Secretary Of the Treasury un-
der Lincoln. and previously Senator
/ from Ohio and governor Of that State.
1 Mrs. Sprague was known as the most
beautiful woman in this country during
I her girlhood and early married life. She
married Gov. sprague. the youngest
I governor in this country at that time, in
the height Of her career but It was an
unhappy marriage and was followed af-
ter few years by a divorce.
Mrs. SpragIe then took her three
| daughters abroad. where they were edu-
aated at a fashionable school near
/ Foutainebleau. Upon the death OF her
venerable father. to whom she was de-
vOtedly attached. she returned to this
| country and remained here. From him
she inherited the beautiful country home,
Edgewood. northeast Of this city. the
scene OF her last few unhsapy years.
At the time of her death 1t was about
10 be sold to satisfy a mortgage. the
worry over which greatly FASTENED the
! end. EdgewOOd was sold soon after, and
upon it's beautiful site the Orphan Asy-
I lum of St Vincent's now stands.
| Mrs. Whitney. who was known when
she first assumed Office as "Portia
Chase" resumed her fathers name after
| the death of her mother. She is an ex-
cellent French scholar. as well as a mu-
sician and artist The future home of
OIr and Mrs. Whitney will be in this
city.