Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-08-29

score, 10 being the luckiest of numbers in the
Wilson family.
1t is interesting to consider the fact that three
of the round dozen of White House brides, includ-
ing the first one, Lucy Payne, and the last one,
Alice Roosevelt. married congressman. Also that
two, Della Lewis and Nellie Grant, became the
wives of foreigners. Only one president MT.
Cleveland, was married in the White House, al
though another, Mr.. Tyler, took to himself a
spouse during his term of Office.
In earlier days White House weddings were
always celebrated in the circular room, the state
department, oval in shape, which is now called
the blue room. But of late years Washington
society has expanded to such an extent, numer-
ically speaking, that, with perhaps 1000 guests
to be invited, the east room is none too large for
the staging Of SO important a spectacle as a mar
riage in the White House.
At the wedding Of Alice Roosevelt, which oc-
CURED Feb. II, 1906. the east room was almost
uncomfortably crowded.
The bridal pair we're wed on a raised platform
before an extemporiZed altar. The ceremony was
performed by the Ri. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee,
bishop of Washington, and breakfast for sixty
persons was served in the state dining room, a
buffet lunch for the other guests being furnished
in the green room.
Nick Longworth, at that time a member Of con-
gress from Cincinnati, is exceedingly popular. He
can do amusing things with the piano, is a first
class baseball player and has other accomplish
ments. At the date Of his marriage he was
nearly forty. Though not rich, he will eventually
inherit a considerable fortune from his mother.
His wife has spent most of her time since her
marriage in Washington, where she is a leader
of the young married women's set. She has no
children.
There was a gap of nearly twenty years be-
tween the Roosevelt wedding and that of Frances
Folsom, who was married in the White House
June 2, 1886, to President Cleveland. She was
only twenty years old at the time and was the
daughter of Mr.. Cleveland's former law partner.
On this occasion the ceremony was semi-priyate
and the blue room was plenty big enough for the
bridal party and a small number of invited
guests.
When her husband died, five years ago. Mrs.
Cleveland was left very well off. In addition,
congress voted her the customary $4,000 a year
as the pension Of a presidents widow. A few
months ago she was married to Thomas j.
Preston.
When Rutherford B.. Hayes was colonel of the
Third Ohio Volunteers the lieutenant-colonel of
the regiment was Russell Hastings. Whence 1t
came about that Colonel Hastings, in later years.
made the acquaintance of Emily Plat, a niece Of
President Hayes. Miss Platt was a member Of
the White House family through the Hayes ad-
ministration, being regarded almost as a daugh-
ter. When she became engaged to Colonel Hast
fngs It was arranged that she should be married
in the White House, and the ceremony was per-
formed there on June 10, 1878, at Z o'clock in the
evening. 1t was wholly a family affair.
Four years earlier took place the wedding Of
Nellie Grant, the third daughter Of. president to
be married in the White House. On this occasion
the spectacle was staged in the east room, then
used for the purpose for the first time. The date
was May Fl, 1874, and the bridegroom was Alger-
non Charles Frederick Sartoris, an Englie1man.
Ellen Wrenshall Grant was a handsome girl
of eighteen, with brown hair and eyes, rosy
cheeks and a plump figure. Sartoris, who was the
son of a member of parliament and was said to
have an income of 10000 a year, met her for the
first time on a steamer coming back from Europe.
The wooing was rapid, but General Grant disap-
proved of the match and did not give his consent
for more than a year.
There are plenty of people living today who