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Show FIRST WHITE HOUSE WEDDING On June L IMS. the first wedding wed-ding tn the While House took place when President Orover Cleveland married Misa Francea Folsom of Buffalo, the daughter of his former for-mer law partner. She waa 23 and be 4S. A writer describee the event ss follows: ' Frances did not promise to obey,' but simply to love, honor, comfort and keep. The bride s veil was nearly aix feet long. It was Dot a big wedding. The guests were few. Both Frances and her husband wens opposed to a showy ceremony of international proportions. "Francea and the president spent their honeymoon at Deer Park, Md.. with the field glasses of reporters trained upon them. So closely were j they bounded . . . that the president presi-dent was later moved to refer to the 'colossal impertinence of the press. Frances Cleveland bad five cnil 1 dren, th second of whom waa bora at tha White House In 1IM during tie president's second administration. administra-tion. She was not only the first president s wife to become a mother moth-er there but was also the youngest mistress of the executive mansion. After Cleveland a death she married Thoma J. Preston Jr professor of archeology at Prlnce-tun. |