Salt Lake Herald | 1891-02-15 | Page 5 | Local News

Mr James S Richardson who it is now I said will marry Miss Winnie Davis I daughter of the confederacy is known allover over the south He is called the Cotton King because of his enormous plantation holdings in Mississippi and Louisiana His father who got rich by loaning money on plantations and after acquiring them under mortgage died a few years ago leaving three or four children of whom James is the oldest James became quite well known some years ago because of his attentions at-tentions to Mary Anderson when that celebrated cele-brated actress was at the height of her fame He followed her from city to city was present at all her performances and va unremitting in his devotion to her I was at one time aid that Mary was about I to yield to his solicitations for her hand and heart but that Mr Navarro came along and settled that matter against Mr Richardson and all his cotton