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Show HAS MARRIED 4,000 COUPLES Tennessee - Minister Builds Hotel Especially Es-pecially for Eloping Couples. . Bristol, Tenn. Rev. Alfred Harrison Burroughs of Bristol, now in his eightieth year, has married 4,000 couples in the last twenty-three years. "I had no thought of making this a business," said the aged minister. "I was licensed to marry people many years ago, and when the first runaway couple sought me in 1889, I consented to marry them more as a matter of accommodation than anything else. "Some of my friends were presenl and witnessed the marriage. They complimented me and told me that ) ought to make marrying a business. After that I did not decline to offer my services whenever a couple came my way. Month by month the business busi-ness grew until I sometimes married from three to six couples a day." So rapidly did the minister's marrying mar-rying business Increase that he built a hotel designed especially to accommodate accom-modate eloping couples. |