The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-11
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Schwartz, Representing One
Third of Three Hundred Years of Mar
ried Life, Are Guests Here
TRIO OF HALFCENTURY HUSBANDS
East Troy Family Of Which Ex- Congressman Randall
is a Member, is Believed to Have Established
a Matrimonial Record.

hundred and fifty years is long
time to be married but this is record
of three brothers living in East Troy,
Wisconsin, one of whom, Paul
. Schwartz, is now the guest of his neph=
ew, Ex-Congressman G. E. Randall, at
the Randall home, $40 Prairie avenue.
On a page in the family Bible, yellow
with years and ragged with re-reading,
the unique marriage history of the
Schwartz brothers is recorded as fol-
lows:
John A. Schwartz Born April S,
1910; married April %, 1868 to Eliza
beth Wilmer.
Paul Schwartz-Born March 10, 1912;
married April II, 1869, to Addie Bunk
err.
Joseph w. Schwartz Born September
IS, 1S4S; married September IL, 1870,
to Catherine Noblet.
And beneath the magic space reserv-
cd for Marriages" on the haunting
lines awaiting "Deaths'N can be found
neither the name Of John nor Paul nor
Joseph, Elizabeth, Addie, nor Gather
ne The trio of half-century-husba
have survived the ordeal by matrimony
and have celebrated, each at the proper
time within the past three years, their
golden wedding-days
''It merely shows" Mr.. Schwartz com
mented this morning, "that good wives
and long lives is rhyme worth mem
orizing."
Wedding at Elkhcrn.
The guests at the Randall home be-
came Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Schwartz at
the Elkhorn home of the brides uncle,
Hiram Bunker, in the spring that Gem
eral Grant was inaugurated president
of the United States.
"That campaign was not very excit-
ing but the one before it was unforget-
table In it cast my first vote; it
was for Abraham Lincoln against Gem
eral Mcclellan. | have voted at every
presidential election since that time
and always for the Republican candi-
date. I guess I might reasonably be
called standpatter. Fifty-seven years
with the Grand Old Party ought to en-
title me to some such distinction as
that"
incidentally, the veterans loyalty to
his party has not been without it's com
pensations For six years he was
mayor of East Troy and for several
years thereafter town-clerk. Suisse
ouently he was made secretary of the
Farmers Insurance Company, in which
position he has served most creditably
for more than twenty-seven years.
His brothers, both of whom live
within two blocks Of him at East Troy,
have also been prominent in Walworth
county politics, social and fraternal
life,
The Mesdames Schwartz, following
he leads of their husbands, all voted
HE Republican ticket in the last cam
paign,
prohibition Promotes Progress"
After matrimony and politics, prohi-
bition comes hext in the affections of
he ffty-year Benedict,
"The eighteenth amendment" ne said
today, thoughtfully as if he were re-
Viewing the history of many years,
has done more to promote progress in
East Troy and Walworth county than
anya one thing that I can remember.
An6 I'm not a red-hot prohibitionist
either. I've never been fanatic on
The question even though I've never
drunk a drop Of the stuff myself. I've
merely seen the changes brought about
by the dry laws and, knowing the wis
dom and common sense of the Ameri-
oan people, I'm ready to prophesy that
booze has gone for good Just as slavery
vent and other evils that folks have
felt so sure couldn't be legislated out
Of life"
He added too, that prohibition would
"do much to make more golden we'd
ding-days" such as he and his brothers
have recently celebrated.
When asked about the hardships of
nioneer life, Mr., Schwartz admitted
hat it had its difficulties and its dan
~ers, that there had been much in it
that he would like to forget He told