The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-03

Martin Van Buren, and Hannah
Hoes were boy and girl lovers at tina
village school of Kinderhook, md
neither OF them ever had u thought OF
any othor He was married at tho
age OF twenty-five, and they lived in
IDEAL domesticity for twelve yc,rs
Atter his w!fc's death Mr.. Van Buron
hnishcd the journey OF life alone
Wiiliain H. Harrison and John TYLER
ooth married young, the former nj
twenty-five and the latter a year old
or. Both made love matches, which
| resulted IN ideal domestic harmony
ana happiness. Mrs. Harrison wna
Anna Symmes. Of North Bend, Ohio. n
| young woman of great personnl nj
Effectiveness, as her portraits show
Mrs Tyler. who was Letitia Christian
OF Cedar Grove. Va. when she became
the bride of the man who succeeded
President Harrison did much to disneI
the gloom of that unfortunate admin
lstration, although she died In the
white House before 1t was ended. In
Tess than two years afterward, Mr.
Harrison married Miss Julia Gardiner
young and accomplished New York.
woman.
7 ~ the age of twenty-nine James K
folk welded Miss Sarah chjldrass
win whom he had been In love for
several years. It was an idea, 49,
~N' tt'oS the hon
ors and prosperity that came TO than
mithout cloud to mar their domea.
Tic HE Zachary Taylor aftor a nov.
MOOD and youth passed amid ali tha
nardships and limitations OF the fron-
ger secured lieutenacy in the army
anu az the ago OF twenty-four went
70 New Orleans to Join the troon.
There he mot Miss Margaret sm,th
cna rmins young girl belonging TO ono
OF the old Maryland families thai ma
settled In Louisiana. After q cont
snip or two years the fair Maruaret
consented TO share the fortunes OF tha
young soldier '"e
While he was still struggling
young lawyer. ut the age OF twen,S.
six. Mildred Fillmore met the %s,',h
ter of Unitarian minister ~
church festival. and lost his han,
without further ceremony .AbigpiI
Powers-that was the attractive
!ouhs "omans nane--was equally In
crested in tho young attorney, but
ner father objected TO the lovers theo-
iosicai views. Fillmore's devotion 10
ADiseli made change OF creed maj
ter OF easy arrangement So he no
/ came Unitarian, and so rcmained
until his death. although his second
"lle' VINO was Mrs. Caroline Mcintosh.
/ a rich widow. was an Episcopalian
| while FRANKLIN Pierce was studen.
at Bo"doin College he fell In loye
win Jane Means Appleton, daughter
OF the president OF that ins,ltution
me young man was not yet twenty
J ana the girl was two years HIS iuninr
, SO pr. Appleton refused his consent 10
, an enlargement An engagement was
made. however, nut II was len veara
before the lovers were married Al
Z thht time Pierce was in Congress and
was rapidly forging his way 10 the
front James buchanan, the only per-
I sistent celibate who ever sa, in the
! presidential chair, was the hero of a
! romance in his early days when hn :
| was about twcnty-threc the young wo-
! man TO whom he was hetrothcd died OF
tnberculosis. and he never sought to
| MI the place In his heart that had been
| made vacant by her passing.
! or her lovers grief, tho passion of
sorrow that took possession of him
and refused TO be dislodged. il seeing
almost like sacriligc TO write. There
is something inexpress!bly pathetic In
/ that agonizcd moan OF his loyal heart:
~ can never he satisfied TO have tho
! snows. rains and storms beat upon her
gravel" But time dulled the sting of
| his first great sorrow, and In 1871 ne
4 married the bright and estimable wo-
! man who made his home the dearest
place on earth to him-Ailss Mary
Todd. of Lexington, Ky
| How Andrew johnson. hoy OF nine
! teen, Il graduate OF the University of
1 Harry knocks, but so lliterate that he
could not write love letters 10 hia
inamorata, won and married pretty
and reiineu Eliza McCordle Is food for
romance. Desp4te all predictions to
/ the contrary. 1t proved to be an ad-
mirable partnership, covering a period
! OF half a century and dissolved only
! by --.s Johnson's death.
1 I,oyf J.nisokf NJ ., SnI.Jto-
The love episode of General Grant
! and Miss Julia Dent is tcnderly ro-
! mantle excerpt from the great soldiers
record. At his graduation Grant waa
! assigned to duty mt Jefferson Barracks,
I ST. Louis. One of his classmates at
1 West Point named Dent lived at White
/ Haven, few miles distant, and whom
Lieutenant Grant went out to visit
/ him he met his friends eldest sister,
! then home from school on q short va
/ cation. Although 1t was case of
| love at first sight, the shy young SOL
| der did not find the courage to speak
until he was ordered into camp Mt Fort
! Jessup. Louisiana, Then lie mounted
/ his horse and set off Mt tremendous
speed for White Haven, fording a
I swollen river at his great personal risk
7 and arriving ut his destination much
| the worse for wear. Fortunately for
him. the girl had discovered the real
) man behind the silence and shyncss.
and she accepted him despite his be-
draggicd and -uncavalicr-lilte appear
ance. The engagement was long
| one, but it stood the test of separation
and adverse fortunes
| Rutherford B. Hayes, at the ago OF
thirty, bnarried Lucy w. Webb, to
whom he had been engaged from boy
! hood, when he was a student Mt Ken
| yon College and she pupil at a Gin
cinnati boarding school. James ~
Garfield married I.ucretia Rudolph
after he became President of Hiram
College. They had been goods and
lovers In their early youth at Chester
academy. Chester A. Arthur welded
Ellen Hcrndon when he was twenty
three, and she died before he reached