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cratic interests. He was a stout man, rather like 

 Edmund Yates in appearance, with a dark brown 

 moustache, but no other hirsute appendages. In 

 1886 he married his ward, a sweetly pretty girl of 

 twenty-two, daughter of his whilom friend and 

 business associate, Oscar Folsom of Buffalo. After 

 a honeymoon in the Alleghanies, the President 

 brought his young bride to the White House, and, 

 though she was the youngest woman that had ever 

 occupied that proud position, it was generally con- 

 ceded that as " The first Lady in the Land " she 

 maintained her position with dignity, and a charm 

 of manner that made her universally popular, though 

 she mixed but little in the whirl of fashionable 

 society. Some weeks later Mr. Willie Endicott, 

 son of the Secretary of War and brother to the 

 present Mrs. Chamberlain, took me to tea with her, 

 and I found her most charming and affable. She 

 was greatly amused at my being announced as " Mr. 

 Haycock." It fairly " tickled her to death," as they 

 say across the pond. Mrs. Cleveland was always a 

 very devoted wife to her old husband, who died in 

 New Jersey in 1908. She married a second time, 

 a year or two ago, Professor Thomas Jex Preston of 

 Princetown University. 



