Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-30

| tHe I1T0nL Hotel, Dut naQ HotHiiS W
add to Mr.. Grants bare assertion that
the wedding would take place in
month or SO.
Mr.. Grants first wife was Josephine
Chaffee. daughter of Senator Jerome
B. Chaffee Of Colorado. They were
married in 1880. Mrs. Grant died sew
eral years ago.
| While Mr.. Grant declined to give
any information concerning his wed
ding plans or honeymoon trip, 1t Is
limited by friends that Judge Puter-
baugh will perform the wedding cere-
! mony and that the honeymoon trip
may include such a tour of the world
as was taken by the bridegroom's
father. after he retired from the presi-
dency Of the United States.
Mr. Grant came to San Diego twen-
| ty years ago. and ever since has been
prominently identified with the build
construction Of the Grant Hotel, at a
time when mere conservative citizens
predicted nothing but financial ruin.
MIR. Grants wealth is estimated in
the millions, while his bride be is
known to be wealthy woman. For
long time Mr. Grant has paid marked
and the announcement of an engage
ment has been expected among the
| social elect for many months.
when asked concerning his plans
for an early marriage yesterday. Mr..
Grant exhibited that marked diff
dence with which his famous father
! was always credited.
asked point blank if he contem-
plated matrimony Mr.. Grant replied:
i do. You can say that 1 will wed
! Mrs. A. B. Will within a month or
two
In reply to a request for photo
| graphs of himself and his beautiful
| tancee, Mr. Grant replied that they
would be furnished the day of the
wedding.
Anything touching upon the init
mate or minute details Of the proposed
| wedding would not be yielded by MI.
! Grant despite many questions.
..The trousseau Of the bride, and the
wedding plans were left shroudeo IN
complete darkness.
The same paper, on the day following
| in commenting on the engagement
says:
when U. S. Grant and Mrs. America
| r Will are married, some time Pc
tween July Is and 20, descendants Oh
one of the most famous families IN
America, and of Pho Pico, one OF the
most famous Of California's Spanish
governors. will be linked by the event.
every gesture Of Mrs. Will. as she
discussed her approaching nuptials yes
terday. betokened her Spanish ancestry
While her father was an Engiisnman'
| her every feature speaks OF the IAN
| suorous strain of the early California
| hacienda. Her dark brown eyes. SOFT
black hair and clear olive tinted COM
plexion show her ancestry better than
a family tree.
| Immediately after the marriage
which will be performed by Judge
George Puterbaugh, the couple VIII
leave on world tour that will not be
! completed until the San Diego exposl-
| ton opens. sees esfa
| Feminine eyes will not be immedl-
| ateIy gladdened by sight or descrip-
! ton of Mrs. Wills rousseau, as she
| saws she will not purchase 1t until she
arrives in Paris.
when requested to give brief his
tory of her life, Mrs. Will smiled cheer
fully and commenced at the date OF
her birth
81 was born in Santa Barbara she
said. NV father was an Englishman
named Workman, and my mother was
a niece of Pho Pico. I was married to
Edward Clifton Will, wholesale drug
gist of Marshalltown, Iowa, and was
widowed one year later by the death OF
my husband
".when did you meet Mr.. Grant'
she was asked.
Smiling auizzically, Mrs. Will re-
pied: 4 met Mr.. Grant the first time
in Chicago
Tn answer to the question Of when
she baceme engaged to marry Mr. GRAM
Mrs. Will said that it was about two
months ago, but-and here she "impled
prettily-It had been mutually under
stood for some time before that
Mrs. Will has but recently returned
from world trip and talks delightedly
of the prospects of another leisurelS
trip around the world in Mr.. Grants
company.
First we plan to go to Honolulu
and from there to the orient, then te
Australia. From Australia we vii
probably double back to South America
and take a ship from Buenos Ayres te
travels until the opening OF the exposi-
ton. Mr.. Grant wouldn't miss the
opening of the exposition for anything
and 1 know that our honeymoon tril
will be planned with due regard to oul
return here by that time
Mrs. Will confesses to a great ioV'
for life in London but at the same time
insists that Mr. Grant has no intention
of expatriating himself or making
home anywhere but in San Diego.
"Mrs. Will admitted that the worlt
tour planned by her and Mr.. Grant WI
cover in large measure the SAM
. itineracy as that Of Gen. U. s. Grant OF
his triumphal progress around tn
, world after he retired from the presi
! dency.
THAT U. S. Grant and his wife viii
seek the shade Of tree in Nagasak,
Japan, planted by U. g. Grant TN
first, about forty years ago. was ad
mitted by Mrs Will.
Mr. Grant has five children, tn
youngest Of whom is 20. while Mrs
Will has one boy about 10 years old.