Show WHITE HOUSE WEDDINGS scent Ceremony the Twelfth Held in the executive T Years Since Miss Folsom MansionTwenty Married L President Cl eve i an d president Jeffersons administration as the first that began nnd ended in he White House Ho wns n widower nit whatever success his ndminlstra flon had of a social character was duo the presence of Mrs Madison wlfo C tho Secretary of State and tho reatest social factor of Washington facial life The election of James Madison rought this most popular of Amerl to the highest social an women post Ion in the Republic There wero two weddings In the fchlte House while she was Its mis Vess The first wedding to occur In lie Presidents house wns that of the ldow of a nephew of George Wash hgton Lucy Payne Mrs Madisons oinger sister who was married ate at-e age of 15 In 1792 to George Step be Washington and lived during her fldowhood with the Madlsons in flftshlngton The second White House wedding ok place after the War of 1812 was nded Mrs Madison gave her cous a simpler but still a large wedding he bride was a relative by marriage flss Anna Todd of Philadelphia and he bridegroom was a member of Con ress from Virginia John G Jackson great unble of Stonewall Jackson The third wedding was that of Miss onroe I The fourth marriage celebrated In ie Presidents houso was that of elm Adams the son and private sectary sec-tary of President John Quincy Ad ms He was married to his cousin jlary Hellcn of Philadelphia Andrew Jacksons administration ucceeded that of John Quincy Ad us and It Is recalled as one during hick there were three weddings and I ary1842 Miss Tyler was In her nine teenth year A ear later occurrell tho death of Mw Letitia Tyler > the wife of Presit dent TYler and from September 1842 until limo second marriage of tho Pres Ident in 1844 eight months before his retirement the life of the Executive Mansion was not gay Hut when President Tyler left Washington I early In I the morning of June 25 1844 to bo married In New York > Washington so Y ciety i i looked forward to another gay season His bride was Miss Julia Gar diner a young woman of twenty The bridal reception at tho Execu tlve Mansion In Washington occurred on the Saturday following and was at tended by nearly every official In the city all the foreign Ministers army and navy officers and great throngs of women All Washington In fact was represented at that reception which wns as notable an event as the wedding Itself The wedding of Nellie Grant was the ninth to occur In the White House It was tho first to be cole brated In the east room and Miss Grant was the third daughter of a President to bo married in the Execu tine Mansion The first as has been stated was Miss Marie Monroe the second Miss Elizabeth Tyler Miss Grant was 18 at the time a handsome happy and affectionate girl Both on her own account and on account ac-count of her father and his position there was Immense public Interest In the marriage The bridegroom was Algernon C F Sartorls He wns in his twentysecond year and by birth an Englishman The wedding occurred May 21 1874 The bridal party entered the east had been Kept on tho afternoon ot Dec 30 which fell upon Sunday Tho Rev Dr McCabe who had married them renewed his pastoral blessing In tho same words and heard the same pledges that were uttered twentyfive years before Following the ceremony a christen ing took place tho child n daughter of Mr and Mrs Heron receiving thd name of Lucy Hayes In honor of Mrs Hayes Then Fanny and Scott Russell Hayes two of the Presidents children wero baptized The tenth White House wedding was that of Miss Emily Platt nleco oC President Hayes who was married to1 Gen Russell Hastings on June 19J 1878 The bride had been to tho PresJ Ident and Mrs Hayes as a daughter J and she had lived In their home for many years going to the White House with them from Ohio Gen Hastings had been a companion In arms of the President having been tho Lleuton + ant Colonel of the Third Regiment oC Ohio Volunteers of which Presldentl Hayes was Colonel The ceremony was performed In the Blue room by Bishop Jagger of the Southern Diocese of Ohio In deference defer-ence to the wishes of both the bride and the bridegroom tho wedding wa I I a very quiet affair tho guests belno limited almost exclusively to family friends and relations When next the Blue room was decorated dec-orated for a marriage ceremony time wedding was that of a President the first to bo married In tho Whit House President Cleveland was tht second Chief Magistrate to be married whllo In office Miss Frances Folsom tho bride was 20 and was noted as being graceful r ti f tj i 3 al + t f f w y e J v ° w 11 6 1 r 5 t ay ir Y k n p II n 3 ijyyl f i 2it ° Y aftaGN + a r ta 4 cm mg 4 j I I r t ° + r VE i N t1r3yP SA r SS S4 j41r l s t MM I 5 Jq xkt y ii I W r j fa t jSI1 i 4 1 v S ly t 1g X ds 4 4i 4 J L 7tqj r N l w f i t3i I ty Q e m + ° a f Tn may THE EAST ROOM IN IN THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AT WASHINGTON wedding reception in the White louse The fifth marriage in White House Istory was that of Miss Della Lewis f Nashville Tenn whose father William B Lewis was one of Presl lent Jacksons most intimate person I friends Miss Lewis was married o Mr Alphonso Joseph Yver Pageot native of Martinique who was secretary sec-retary of the French Legation at the ime of his marriage President Jackson was intensely and of his wifes relatives and being i childless widower and having not a Dative In the world of his own gath red about him many young people tong whom wore several of Mrs Jacksons nieces Mary Hasten a Tennessee girl was ° ne of these nieces and when sho was married to Lucien B Polk of Tennessee Tennes-see the President arranged to have the ceremony take place in tho Blue room Another White House marriage that occurred during President Jacksons administration was that of Miss Em Uy Martin a nleco of Mrs Donolson vho became tho bride Lewis of Ran olph a grandson of Jefferson < Andrew Jackson Jr the adopted oo and private secretary of President ackson married soon after the Inau ration MISS Sarah Yorke of Phlla elphla and the wedding reception as held at the White House This as llle first of several wedding recap Ions of the of sons Presidents which nave occurred there The next wedding festivity to take place in the Presidents house was In the administration of President Mar tin Vau Buren Ho gave a very bril lIant wedding reception tq his son laj > Van Huren whose bride was the accomplished Miss Angelica Singleton ° r South Carolina following the ono month adminis tration of President William Henry Harrison Vice President John Tyler tcanie the tenth President The year succeeding his f Incumbency the eighth Wedding to occur In what was now Vied tho Executive Mansion took pc ce The brldo was Elizabeth Ty H who was married to William Wal er of wllllamsburg Va In tto Blue room of the Executive Mansion at v i Wusblnglwa on the 81st day of Janu room through the corridor the bridesmaids brides-maids walking In couples They were the Misses Conkllng Frellnghuysen Drexel Porter Fish Barnes Dent and Sherman The Rev Dr Tiffany led the procession followed by the bridegroom bride-groom who was supported by his best man Lieut Col Fred Grant The bridesmaids preceded tho bride who entered tho room leaning on the arm of her father Mrs Grant and her two younger sons followed On a raised platform facing the large east window and under a bell of white flowers the bridal couple stood The service was that of the Methodist Episcopal church The brides dress was of Ivory white satin covered with a skirt of rose point lace The skirt had a very long sweeping train lined with white silk The edges of tho lace overdress had a fringe of orange blossoms and lily of tho valley sprays The high corsage was cut square In tho neck and filled In with diagonal folds of tulle Point lace matching tho flounces in pattern together with orange blossoms ornamented the bodIce bod-Ice and adorned the sleeves The long veil was of tho thinnest tulle with the faint edge undefined by a horn The bridal chaplet of orange flowers crossed the front of the coiffure coif-fure and was caught at the left side In a cluster The wedding breakfast was served In the State dining room The gifts came from a great number of donors and were valued at upward of 100 000 a great sum In those days The autumn succeeding tho marriage mar-riage of Miss Nellie Grant her brother broth-er Cot Frederick Dent Grant was married In Chicago on Oct 20 to Miss Ida Honore and on Nov 10 the President Presi-dent and Mrs Grant gave the bridal pair a reception at the White House Col and Mrs Grant passed the next three winters In the White House and It was there that their daughter Julia Grant was born In June 1876 This daughter Is now tho Princess Cantacuzeno Countess Speraesky of Russia The first silver wedding to be celebrated cele-brated In tho White House was that of President and Mrs Hayes On Deo In the 31 1877 tnoy met their friends Blue room The actual anniversary and winsome Her engagement to thft President was made In the summer oi 1885 Soon after she went to Europd with her mother and remained there until a few days before her weddlngJ That occurred on the evening of June 2 1886 at 7 oclock In the Blue room To the strains of Mendelssohns Wedding March played by the Ma4 nine Band the bridal couple unattended unattend-ed passed down tho stairway and entered en-tered the Blue room from the western corridor Dr Sunderland met them under the glittering center chandelier and the wedding service followed The brldo wore a gown of Ivory sate In with trimmings of India silk arranged < ar-ranged In Grecian folds over the front of the high corsage and fastened In the folds of satin at the side Orango blossoms and buds and leaves outlined this drapery and adorned the edge oft the skirt A coronet of orange blossoms fastened fast-ened the veil and garnitures of the same blossoms were artistically arranged ar-ranged throughout tho costume lion veil of silk tulle enveloped her and softened the effect of the satin gown It fell over the entire length of thou long court train Gloves reaching to the elbow completed com-pleted the costume No jewelry savo her engagement ring was worn and no flowers were carried The habit of gift making had not reached Its height when President Cleveland vas married and the crowned heads of Europe the American Ameri-can Ministers at foreign courts and countless other people contented themselves with sending telegrams of congratulation The only gift the brldoi exhibited to her friends was a dial mond necklace composed of a slngloj string ot brilliants the gift of thd bridegroom To this gift Mr BIsselh the former law partner of the President Presi-dent added a pendant of diamonds The wedding of Miss Alice Roosevelt Roose-velt and Congressman Nicholas Long worth in the East Room of the Executive Execu-tive Mansion is the twelfth to occur In the White House Twenty years have passed since Miss Frances Folsom became a brldo at the White House and thirtyfour years have been numbered since Gen Grants only daughter was married In the East Room |