New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-11
GEN. JAMES WEEDS At 50
His Daughter "Harry" Acts as
BEST Man."
MRS. GAFFNEY FOURTH WIFE
Banker and Former Postmaster
General Brings Bride Here to
Attend Reception.

Though past his eiehtieth birthday. Cen
eral Thomas l. James. once postmaster Of
this city. later Postmaster General II the
nation under Garfield and Arthur and now
presider, OF tile Lincoln National Sank,
married his fourth wife YESTERDAY. The
bride. who was Mrs Florence Gsnney. 81
Utica. lacks several years Of bring half
her husband ago.
There was no Younger man at the wsG-
ding than the general himself He was seen
early yesterday morning walking up and
down the veranda ~ his house at High
wood. y. J . rubbing his hands together
and in hIgh spirits. II was with an en-
tirely Youthful spirit. a reflection OF his
own heart he said. later in the day. that
he spoke To- his neiehbors. His gayety in
crea sed. and shortly before noon reached
IT'S climax. when Mrs Gannev drove up ~
Glen Burnie the big stone house all COW
cred with ivy With her was her brother.
A. II. Mcdonnell. ~ Utica; his wife. and
her mother. Mrs Barbara Cook. whose hus-
band was Frederick Cook. former Score
! tary Of State. The general climbed quickly
IN the car. which also carried NJ. F.. Martin
and Charles Nunier of the Lincoln Ma
tional Bank. and tho party was whired
away to Tenafy. whore Recorder Maugham
tied the knot.
Mrs Gafrey wore 4 blue travelling suit,
with green collar and a white panama
hat. trimmed with broad black ribbons
, The general was very proud Of her IS ne
stood beside her His daughter Miss Har-
riet Weed James. stood NJ with her father
as his best man" Harry as her father
calls her. is the child Of his first wife
The ceremony was short one. Ard after
the Recorder had said. BY virtue If the
authority vested In me by the State of New
Jersey ! pronounce Won msn and wife.
he turned away. hut General James yanked
small package from bis pocket
Hon about this ring he asked
The Recorder came hack and saw that
the ring was properly put on. Then they
all motored 10 New York and yesterday
afternoon Mrs Cook had a reception for
the bride and groom AT the Hotel SAVOY.
Later the general took his bride IN At
len'ic City for their HONEYMOON.
General James was born in Utica on
March 20. 1881, and was apprenticed AT m
teen TO Wesley BAILEY. Who published the
aholitonist Liberty Press At FIRST
Tom James had 10 get up at o'clock,
get things in order. go 10 breakfast. then
return to the shop and ink the rollers on
the old Washington hand press all the
morning. And he got 81 30 A week for 1t. !
In five years his apprenticeship expired. |
and he began 70 publish The Madison
County Journal Wing organ AT Hamil- |
ton. beating the Know Nothing movement
there ny his editorials. The general has
never forgotten that he was a printer and
some wears ago he engaged In type set
ting contest with f. Prentice Bailey, once
editor OF The Troy Times" In thirty |
minutes the general had set up almost
line Of type. so Bailey won
General James entered the customs ser |
vice in 1861. In 1872 President Grant APP !
pointed him postmaster Of New York. and |
he held that office until President Garfield |
made him Postmaster General. in ISL |
After the President was killed General |
James became president of the Lincoln |
National Bank.
He is a member Of the Century, Univer-
sity. Union League. ST. David's-he Is very !
proud Of being a Weshman-and Engle- |
wood clubs, and a vrstrNman of the Church /
OF the Atonement at Tenany. one reason
Recorder Vaughan performed the marriage |
ceremony was that Mrs. Gsffney had di- /
vorced James Augustus Gaffney. Of Utica
She vas an intimate friend of the last Mrs !
James. and las with her when she died.
The first wife OF General James was /
7 miIv Ida Freeburn. Of Hamilton Mrs |
James was in tho railway station i'm Wash /
ineton when President GARFIELD was shot |
She ran 10 him. lifted his head and brushed .
his face with her handkerchief.
Thank you, Sister James" he said
She died al the Murray Hill Hotel in 1875. |
her children being Colonel Charles Francis |
James. Mrs. Ella J. Person widow OF |
former New York postmaster, and Miss !
Harriet Weed james. all of whom are now /
living \ year later General James went |
10 Aiken. s. e. and married her sister
Jeanne. the widow of DR. II. r. Barden |
She lived only a few years. When the gen |
eraI was seventy-three years old he mar |
ried an English girl Of thirty, Miss Edith |
Colbourne of Stratford-onAy Avon. She died |
L. Of November at IIlghwood.