The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-30
MRS. CLEVELAND
 TO MARRY AGAIN
EX-PRESIDENTS WIDOW AN. NOUNCES HEIR ENGAGEMENT TO PROF. THOMAS JOSEPH
 PRESTON.
TEACHER AT WELLS COLLEGE
Where Frances Folsom Was Graduat- ed in 1885 to Become a White
 House Bride the Next Year.

The announcement of the engage ment of Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleve- land, the widow of Grover Cleveland. President of the United States to Prof Thomas J. Preston of Wells College was made last night by President Hib- ben of Princeton University. The date for the wedding has not yet been set, and will be announced later
 Prof. Preston is a graduate of Prince ton and a professor of archaeology. He did not complete his university career until after the age of 40, hay his youth because or Illness. He then took very high honors in scholarship.
 It was from Wells College that Mrs. Cleveland was graduated in 1885, a, girl of twenty-one. and 1t was there, in her undergraduate days, that she was looked upon with such high favor ernor of New York From the Exacu- tive Mansion in Albany great boxes of flowers used to be sent to Wells College, and before graduation came everybody knew that MT. Cleveland was paying his suit to the daughter of his old partner in Buffalo.
 at the White House, and the whole world took sentimental interest and curiosity in the young girl who had become the first bride of the White House. Daughters, nieces. and other relatives of Presidents have been mar ried there before, but this was the inst time in the history Of the United States that a President was married there
 During their tenancy of the White House, five children came to the Cleve- lands, Ruth, Marian, Richard, Frances and Esther Ruth is dead and the other children are all growing up now Only the other day, rumor who is to come out next month, would then announce her engagement to the son of Dean Andrew West of Prince kL-fn 4o1
 This was not the first of the mar riage rumors that have been circulat- ing about the, Cleveland home in Princeton of 1ate- years Only 8 year ago it was reported In more than one quarter. that Mrs. Cleveland would marry again.
 49. and, though it seems many years ago that she was presiding over the social life of Washington as the first lady or the land, she does not look the years which the biography books ascribe her. Her hair is very dark, and, gowned prettily in black and white, body gazed at Princeton's most recent large social Junction. when President H1bbens inaugural drew great throngs to the college town.
 GNq>s. Cleveland was hostess that day to Chief Justice White of the Su- prenne Court, and could be seen later Nassau Hall, her parasol tiptnted, and every neck craning for better view of her.
 At the luncheon attended by thou sands, she sat in the gallery, and Pres- ident Taft seized the occasion to pay her every compliment. He told of the innumerable portraits of Presidents ladies which lined the walls of the White House, only to wind up with the declaration that the walls were yet to hold a. picture of Mrs. Cleve- land.
 He told the alumni of Princeton that he rather thought the gift should come from them and this suggestion was received with upr oarious enthusiasm, so closely has Mrs. Cleveland affili- ated herself with the university of which her husband was an active Trus- tee after his retirement from the Pres idency.