Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e-clined the honor. But the President saw in her rosy smile more than she herself knew.That same evening arrangements were perfected for the pleasure trip down the Potomacwhich terminated so fatally. Miss Gardiner and her sister were taken to the White Houseuntil after the funeral of their beloved father, and then returned to New York. A fewweeks later the President repeated his proposal of marriage by letter and was accepted.Then came serenades by proxy, the band from the Navy Yard and ships discoursed sweetmusic beneath the young ladys window in Lafayette Place ; once came a song, writtenby the President, and set to the music of the guitar beginning with : Sweet lady awake, from thy slumbers awake.But not until the day of the wedding on the 26th of June, 1844, did the bride elect againmeet the President in person. At the recent alumni dinner at the famous West Point military school (9th June, 18S7JGeneral Isaac R. Tremble of Baltimore presided, representing the class of 1822. We can
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