Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-09
WHITE HOUSE
ONENS FAVOR
JESSIE WILSON
Happiness Has Attended Fourteen
Others Welded in Executive
Mansion.

WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-Happiness
surely is in store for Jessie Wilson,
the fifteenth White House bride, as
such is the unbroken tradition of the
matches which have graced the Pres
idential mansion. When the Chief
Executives youngest daughter be-
comes Mrs. Francis B. Sayre in the
east room November 25, the softly
waited strains of the famous Marine
Band should call to her mind the
vision of a long line of blushing,
comely predecessors.
Indeed the White House breathes
an air Of romance and love-making
Of sweethearts' signs, and the whis-
pering of sweet and precious vows.
Only one President of the long line
has shown the hardihood to resist
this seductive atmosphere-Janies
Buchanan, who entered as a bachelor
and came out unscathed. Two other
observation-disclosures and Tyler
entered bachelors and emerged bene i.
diets.
Four Belong ain Spirit"
OF the fourteen previous White
House brides four have been mar
ried elsewhere, but these are included
because they came Immediately tC
the mansion on their honeymoon and
because they are linked in the minds
Of the American people with the home
of Presidents.
The first White House Of hewn
stone, burned by the British, itself
saw a marriage. Mrs. Madison per
suaded Miss Todd, of Philadelphia,
demure but beautiful Quakeress. TO
be married in the Presidential man
sion to John G. Jackson, great-uncle
of "Stonewall," Then the first lady
of the land set out to show what a
White House wedding should be. Her
lavishness almost shocked the Quaker
bride, 1t is related.
The first wedding in the present
White House was that of Miss Maria
Monroe, youngest daughter of Presi-
dent Monroe, and Lawrence Gouver-
neur, of New York City, March Q,
1920.
Six years later John Adams was
the first son of a President to be
married in the executive mansion. He
took for his bride Helen Jackson, Of
Ma ssa chusetts.
President Adams liked the society
of young persons, and there were two
White House weddings during his
tenancy. He invited Miss Lewis, Of
Nashville, to be married there to
Monsieur Paqueol, later Minister from
France. Later the same doors
opened for the wedding of the Presi-
dents niece, Miss Easton, Of Tennes-
see. and Mr.. Polk. Sarah Yorke, %
Philadelphia, became the bride of An
drew Jackson. Jr., in Philadelphia in
1895, but Mrs. Jackson later pre-
sided over the household of the Chief
Magistrate, and is in spirit truly one
of the White House brides.
Presidents Son WEEDS.
Another graceful mistress was
brought to the White House when
Abram VanBuren son of the. Presi-
dent, married Miss Angelica Single
ton in South Carolina. Elizabeth Ty-
Ter, youngest daughter of President
Tyler, became the bride Of her CouS-
in, Mr. Waller Representative from
Virginia, in the White House in 1912.
Two years later his first wife be-
inc dead, President Tyler married
Miss Gardiner a strikingly handsome
young woman in New York, ana
forthwith brought her to Washington.
White House romance cast its spell
with great intensity on Nellie Grant.
The Presidents daughter was cross
ing the ocean at the age OF II when
she fell in love with Algernon Sar-
toris, just attained his majority For
eighteen months the President frown-
ed on the match. Then he consent
ed, and later, in 1874, he gave the
bride away in the east room.
In the same year Colonel Fred
Grant brought his bride. who was a
Miss Honore, to the White House
from Chicago. She proved a well
come addition to Washington society
Mrs. Hayes, wife of the President,
had a favorite niece, Emily Pratt.
When her engagement to General
Russell Hastings was announced. Mrs.
Hayes opened her home and the
couple We're married in the blue room
beneath great bell Of 1900 buds and
blossoms.
The pearl OF the White House we'd
dings came next. This was the mar
riage of a President, Grover Cleve-
land, to Miss Folsom, of Buffalo, in
the executive mansion, June 2, 1886.
The most recent White House we'd
ding was that Of Alice Roosevelt and
Nicholas Longworth, in 1905.