The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-18

waySide They, too. visited such
places as Harper's Ferry, w. Va, the
burial place of John Brown, and sew
eral points on the Maryland side of
the Potomac river and Chesapeake
bay.
In addition to being a constant COM
panion OF the president on these mo-
tor rides, Mrs. Gait accompanied him
on walks
The day the engagement was an
nounced the president spent much
time in Mrs. Cats company and that
evening she and her mother were the
presidents guests at dinner at the
White House
Mrs Gait is 80 years old. She was
married to Norman E. Gait in 1896.
She has a sister who also married
into the Gait family.
In the circle of people who have
known Mrs. Gait for many years she
has been regarded as a woman of un-
usual beauty, gifted with natural
charm She is not quite as tall as the
president, has dark hair, and dark
eyes Mrs Cats family has figured
prominently in the history of the Old
Dominion. She is a product of the
South, whose traditions and graces
she imbibed in the Virginia home in
which she was born and grew up. She
came to Washington nineteen years
ago as the bride of Norman Gait. She
is one of nine children, having three
sisters and five brothers. Severa
live in Washington. The family is
closely united. Mrs. Galt's sisters
are Mrs Alexander H. Gait, of Wash
. ington, whose husband is a cousin O.
the late Norman E. Gait: Mrs. Math
.. ew H Maury, of Admission, Ala, anC
. Miss Bertha Boiling Her brother
. are John Randolph Boiling. Richard
: Wilmer Boiling and Julian R. Boiling
: of Washington: Rolfe E. Boiling, man
. ager of the Commercial bank of Pan
!, anna, and Dr. William E. Boiling, o
= Louisville, Ky.
: Mrs Gait was educated at Marthi
!, Washington college, Abingdon, Va
, and Fowells college at Richmond
ly after the announcement of the Ell
: gagement to the president she wa
. his companion on the golf links.
President Wilson will be SO year
al 4nr Tho
. dents marriage is the third which ha
occurred in his family since he BIZ
2 came president. First, there was tn
: marriage of the presidents younges
. daughter, Jessie, to Francis B. Sayrft
. of Williamstown, Mass, second, tina
> of Miss Eleanor to Secretary of tn
: Treasury William Biggs McAdoo.
? The presidents family is not quit
p so large as that of Mrs. Gait. He ha
: one brother, Joseph R. Wilson, {
? Baltimore, and a sister, Mrs. Ann
: Howe, of Philadelphia, his thre
: daughters and several cousins.
2 The marriage of the President wi
be the third wedding ceremony for
q President OF the United States viii
2 in office. President John Tyler We
8 the first to marry while in office. Tt
z death of the first Mrs. Tyler occurre
about year after he became Pres
9 dent. Two years later he marie
2 Miss Julia Gardiner, of New Yor
: who presided in the White Hou:
c during the last winter of his admin
= tration. The wedding took place
9 the Church of the Ascension, Ne
z York, in June 1874, and was a gre
= surprise to the people Of the countr
g Miss Gardiner belonged to an o
z Knickerbocker family and visitt
= Washington with her father a numb
9 of times. They were among the par
q abroad the Princeton at the time
& the explosion of one Of the gu