Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-12-18
OUR PRESIDENT TO
Be MARRIED TONIGHT
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one Of the many forms the presidents
courtship took. During the months
of October and November and even
the early part of December, the presi.
dent and his tiancee left Washington
carly on Saturday mornings and spent
the day on a long ride. These trips
sometimes were OF 200 or more miles
in length and very often the presi.
dent and Mrs. Gait had luncheon on
the 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
he Potomac River and Chesapeake
bay.
In addition to being a constant
companion of the president on these
motor rides Mrs. Gait accompanied
him OH walks.
The day the engagement was an
nounced the president spent much
time in Mrs. Calls company and
that evening she and her mother were
the presidents guests at dinner at the
white house.
Mrs. Gait is thirty-eight 1881 years
old. She was married TO Norman L.
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 I'M
usual beauty, gifted with a natural
charm. She is not quite as tall as the
president, has dark hair, and dark
eyes. Mrs. Galt's 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 & as
the bride of Norman Gait. She Is
one of nine children, having three sist-
ers and five brothers. Several live
in Washington. The family connec-
ton is closely united. Mrs. Galt's
sisters are Mrs. Alexander II. Gait, OF
Washington, whose husband Is a cou-
sin of the late Norman Z. Calf; Mrs.
"IolhC" IL. +hdulS " VI HIllSlOug AID
and Miss Bertha Boiling. Her broth.
ers are John Randolph Boiling, Rich
ard Wilmer Boiling and Julian II. Boil
ing of Washington; Rolfe E.. Boiling,
manager of the Commercial Bank OF
Panama, and DR.. William Il. Boiling OF
Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. Gait was educated at Martha
Washington college, Abingdon, Va,
and Fowell's College at Richmond.
She Is a golf enthusiast and frequent
ly after the announcement of the en-.
gagement to the president she was
his companion on the golf links.
President Wilson will be 50 years
old ten days from today. The presi-
dents marriage Is the third which has
occurred in his family since he be.
came president. First, there was the
marriage of the presidents youngest
daughter, Jessie, to Francis d. Sayre,
of Williamstown, Mass, second, that
of Miss Eleanor to Secretary of the
Treasury William Biggs McAdoo.
The presidents family is not quite
so large as hat of Mrs. Gait. He
has one brother, Joseph II. Wilson, of
Baltimore, and a sister, Mrs. Anne
Howe, of Philadelphia, his three
daughters and several cousins.
The marriage of the president will
be the third wedding ceremony for a
president of the United States while
In office. President John Tyler was
the first to marry while in office. The
death Of the first Mrs. Tyler occurred
about a year after he became presi-
dent. Two years later he married
Miss Julia Gardiner, of New York, who
president in the white house during
the last winter of his administration.
The wedding took place in the church
OF the ascension, New York, in June,
1874, and was a great surprise to the
people of the country. Miss Gardiner
belonged to an old Nickerbocker fam
ly and visited Washington with her
father a number of times. They were
among the party aboard the Prince.
ton at the time of the explosion of
one of the guns which resulted fatal
ly for Mrs. Gardiner. The president
and several members OF the cabinet
were in the party.
The next presidential marriage was
that of Grover Cleveland in June, 1886,
married the lovely Frances Folsom,
daughter of his former law partner,
and many years his Junior. Their mar.
riage took place at the white house,
the ceremony being performed in the
blue room In the presence Of the
cabinet and a few relatives and init
mate friends of the president and
bride. Mr.. Cleveland was a bachelor
and his marriage was received
throughout the country with enthusi-
asm.