Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
.PH|LA. WOMAN ONE
OF MANS 8 WIVES
WiIheImlna c. Jaggard Credited
With Being One Of Charles
Wilson's Spouses
"RELIGIOUS WOOING" TOLD
for the home

"RELIGIOUS W00ING" TOLD
A young woman in this city-Wil-
helnina G. Jaggard-is credited with
being one of the eight wives Of Charles
Hugh Wilson, Of Barnesville, Mo-,
known as "the most married man In the
world" Wilson will be brought to New
York to answer bigamy charges.
"Religious Wooer"
He has come to be known as the re
ligious wooer," because of always Sc
lecting his wife from church circles
and courtship by means of frequent
quotations from the scriptures.
The man who married Wilhelmina
Jaggard was known as J. Henry Davis
and said he lived at the Central branch
of the Y. NJ. G. A., 1421 Arch street.
There it was said today that Davis
might have had room for a time in
the Y. NJ. G. A. building, but that he
was not remembered now.
Records of the Marriage License Bu
reau show that Davis took out IL
cense on August 2S, 1915, and was
married on the same day to Mrs. Jag
gard by the Rev. NJ. F. Dunstrey, of
st. Luke's Reformed Church.
When he got the license Davis said
he was salesman, born in Missouri
on April IL, 1875, and that he had
never been married before. His par
ents, Henry Davis and Eva Brainerd
Davis, he said, were dead.
Born Fourth Of July
Mrs. Jaggard. when the license was
obtained, said she was born on July 4,
1884, and that she lived in Myrtlewood
street near Master. She was a widow,
= her husband having died on September
2, 1914. little less than a year be-
fore. She was doing housework at the
time the marriage license was taken
4 out.
When Mrs. Jaggard married Davis
she was living at the home of Mrs. Hen =
rietta Bakof, who said today that Mrs.
Jaggard was deserted soon after she
became Daviss wife.
Davis, Mrs. Bakof said, took Mrs.
Jaggard 10 ElttsDurgh ana llVed Win
her until Thanksgiving Day, 1915, when
he sent her back to Philadelphia, ex =
planning that he would follow and take
her to New York to live. But he did
I. not reappear at the house, and Mrs.
Jaggard, as she was still called, found
a position as saleswoman in store.
a In February, 1915, Mrs. Jaggard
learned, according to Mrs. Bakof, that
DAVIS was IN fhiiadeipnia' ana nad MIN
arresteu Oh charge OF oeserton ana
nonsupport. 30 FAR as Mrs. Bakoi
KNOWS Ine case was never Drought to
ral. DaVls iett fhllaaelphla Without
aahs t4e woman he Ha,f.eu WIN MIN
fs; 'assalu conIinueu 70 poaro WIN
4 us Ao1 " tTr time' Lnen moved
sSs swaS. Is Ms SaAoI uoeS S,t,D Iot Ano" where
Wilson is a son of a Canadian min =
lister. He was born in Barnesville,
Mo-. forty eight years ago.
n. Names OF the young women he has
\ married, with the dates and places
Wilson gives as follows:
Elizabeth May stanton, Davenport,
Ia, January 22, 1s0o.
Mary l.. Bailey, Lynchburg, Va,
July 10, lSoo.
Ethel Q. Moore, Huntsville, Ala,
March 70, 1909.
Louise +. Davis, Detroit, August 70,
1913.
Frances Davis, Pittsburgh, October
"a, 1914.
Katherine Morrison, Mount Vernon.
N. Y, July z, 1915.
Wilhelmina Q. Jaggard, Philadel-
phia, August %, 1915.
Fay Zaff,N New York city, November
13, 1915.
Every woman Wilson married, how
ever, did not become Mrs. Wilson.
Among his aliases, some of which he
married under, are Carl Wilson Hughes,
Edwin G. Moore, James Henry Davis
and w. c. Hughson.
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All MS wives are living and more