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Show HT mS. GROVER CLEVELAND'S FIANCE ! ' . Prof. Thomas Jess Preston of 'Wells college, whose engagement to Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been an--.iiutnced. Is fifty years of age and -i-frr-mr "of Princeton. After his rn-itric.ulation there, he began his uni-versity uni-versity studies at Columbia, which were interrupted on account of f 11-ness. 11-ness. At that time he gave up the idea of completing his education and went into business in which he has. i the announcement made of the engagement en-gagement by his friend. President .lohn Grier Hibben of Princeton ' "made a rapid, -and notable success, establishing himself at the head of a prosperous manufacturing business in Newark. N. J. Afr securing a substantial sub-stantial fortune, he closed his active business career and went to Paris to -jjiuiv for two years at the Sorbonne." iteTurhing to America. Professor Pres-JJ Pres-JJ ,(;. then over forty years of age, took a special course at Princeton at the same commencement re- I ' !V;' s A reived the degree of I.itt. B. and M. A., a very unique attainment. Then he went abroad again as Fellow of the American School of Classical Study at Rome and later won the Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America. Amer-ica. After taking his degree o; Poctor of Philosophy at Princeton, he was cailed!o the chair of archaeology and the history of art at Wells college. jl,.s Cleveland was graduated from Wells and she has always been inter- .(s; d in the studies of which Professor Preston is the exponent. Mrs. p t'levi land, who was a beautiful girl and young matron, Is still an extremely 1 -.ai"r-ome woman. Simple and gracious, she won 'the hearts of all Amer- t;-sti v:rii:g t'o terms of her husband at the White House. |