The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
Whom Do Great Men Marry?
S. L. Mills in Wedlock.

Women, of course But they show the
same diversity of tastes that is seen in the
lower ranks, and upon the whole make worse
mistakes. They, however, show the same
sense in choosing wives that they show in
managing other peoples affairs, whether it
be good or bad
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
married his nurse. She was altogether be-
meath him in social life and intellectual
capacity, and, besides this, was So years old,
while he was but %. He would not take
mo" for an answer, and they were married
and lived happily together until her death,
which occurred two years afterward.
Peter the Great, OF Russia, married a
peasant girl She made an excellent wife
and sagacious empress.
Humboldt married a poor girl because he
loved her. Of course, they were happy.
Shakespeare loved and wed a farmers
daughter. She was faithful to her vows, but
we could hardly say the same of the great
bard himself. Like most of the great poets,
he showed too little discrimination in be-
slowing his affections on the other sex.
Byron married Miss Millbank to get mon
ey with which to pay his detbs. 1t turned
out bad job.
Robert Burns married a farm girl with
whom he fell in love while they worked to-
gether in the ployfield. He, too, was irreg-
ular in his life habits, and committed the
most serious mistakes in conducting his do
nestle affairs.
Milton married the daughter of country
squire, but lived with her only short time
He was an austere, eXacting literary recluse
while she was a rosy, romping country lass
that could not endure the restraint imposed
upon her, and SO they separated. Suisse
quently, however, she returned, and they
lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
cousins, and about the only example in the
long line of English monarchs wherein the
marital vows were sacredly observed and sim
cere affection existed
Washington married a widow with two
children. 1t is enough to say of her that
she was worthy of him, and that they lived
as married folks should-in perfect har-
mony.
John Adams married the daughter of
Presbyterian clergyman. Her father OBJ
jected on account of John being lawyer;
he had bad opinion of the morals of the
! legal profession.
/ Thomas Jefferson married Mrs Martha
] Shelton, childless widow, but she brought
him a large fortune in real estate. After
/ the ceremony she mounted the horse behind
him and they rode home together 1t was
late in the evening and they found the fire
out, but the great statesman hustled around
and built it, while she seized the broom and
soon put things in order. 1t is needless to
say that they were happy, though Jefferson
died poor man, on account of his extreme
liberality and hospitality.
Benjamin Franklin married girl who
stood in her fathers door and laughed at
him as he wandered through the streets of
Philadelphia with rolls of bread under his
arms and his pockets filled with dirty
clothes She had occasion to be happy when
| she found herself the wife of such a great
and good man.
1t is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married lady whose husband was
still living. She was an uneducated but
tached to the old warrior and statesman,
who, with all his roughness and sternness,
was a tender and faithful husband.
John c.. Calhoun married his cousin, and
their children were neither diseased nor
idiotic, but they did not evince the talent of
the great Estates rights" advocate
Edward Lytton Bulwer, the English
statesman and novelist, married girl much
his inferior in position and got shrew for
a wife
Gen. Sam Houston lived happily with a
squaw wife.
Edward Forrest, the great tragedian, mar
ried beautiful actress, from whom he was
divorced.
Gen. John C. Fremont married the daugh-
ter Of ThOs. H. Benton, against the latter's
wish, which obliged him to elope with her
on a stormy night. The union proved a
happy one, in spite of the squally beginning,
Horace Greedy married a schoolmistress.
jefferson Davis, for his first wife, won the
hand of Zachry Taylors- daughter.
Gen. Grant married a Miss Dent, of St.
Louis. She apparently had more sense than
show, and was fit for a presidents wife.