Married May 21, 1874 White House, Washington DC
Algernon Charles 'Algy' Satoris and Nellie Grant May 21, 1874 wedding
It was perhaps the greatest American social event of the 19th century. Finally, a White House wedding was bursting forth in full glory. The walls and staircases and chandeliers were covered in a mass of lilies, tuberoses and spirea. Florida orange blossoms had been crated up and sent north.
The bride, Nellie Grant, was the 18-year-old daughter of an American icon, a war hero and the sitting president. One historian described her as “probably the most attractive of all the young women who have ever lived in the White House.” The groom, Algernon Sartoris, was a 23 year old member of the English “minor gentry.” They had met on a cruise across the Atlantic, courting in the moonlight and stealing “away to the darkened decks for kisses,” while Nellie’s chaperones lay moaning in their cabins with sea sickness. To the public it was an irresistible, romantic story. Algy was serving as a British officer newly assigned to the British delegation in Washington, DC thus reason for the voyage. Nellie and Algy conducted their courtship by correspondence, exchanging letters through the spring of the following year after they met. By the summer of 1873, it became apparent their relationship was quite serious and they set a wedding date.
One newspaper carried a 12 page pictorial insert of the wedding, its presses running non-stop, unable to keep up with the insatiable public demand.
May 21, 1874, “as the resplendent marine band played Mendelssohn’s Wedding March,” President Ulysses S. Grant escorted his daughter into the East Room. Nellie was radiant, wearing a white satin gown “trimmed in rare Brussels point lace” and reportedly worth $2,000. dollars. The president “looked steadfastly at the floor” and wept. His new son-in-law would be taking Nellie to a life in England, moving into a cottage on the Sartoris family estate. They had 4 children before they separated, then while Agry was living in a Europe hotel in 1893, he died of pneumonia at age 42. They had homes in Canada, Wisconsin and Washington, DC.
After Algy’s death, Nellie remained in England until the autumn of 1894, when she returned to America with her children and took up residence in Washington, DC. 18 years after Algy’s death, Nellie married Frank Hatch Jones July 4, 1912 – her 57th birthday. The couple moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Nellie suffered a disabling stroke 3 months after the wedding, paralzyed and remained an invalid for the last 10 years of her life before her death 1922. She outlived all of her children except daughter Vivien May.
Hatch was a lawyer, Yale University graduate, Member and Chairman of the Sangamon County Democratic Committee, President of the State League of Democratic Clubs of Illinois and Secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association.
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Contributor: Junior Ramsey (47063838)
Algernon Charles 'Algy' Satoris and Nellie Grant May 21, 1874 wedding
It was perhaps the greatest American social event of the 19th century. Finally, a White House wedding was bursting forth in full glory. The walls and staircases and chandeliers were covered in a mass of lilies, tuberoses and spirea. Florida orange blossoms had been crated up and sent north.
The bride, Nellie Grant, was the 18-year-old daughter of an American icon, a war hero and the sitting president. One historian described her as “probably the most attractive of all the young women who have ever lived in the White House.” The groom, Algernon Sartoris, was a 23 year old member of the English “minor gentry.” They had met on a cruise across the Atlantic, courting in the moonlight and stealing “away to the darkened decks for kisses,” while Nellie’s chaperones lay moaning in their cabins with sea sickness. To the public it was an irresistible, romantic story. Algy was serving as a British officer newly assigned to the British delegation in Washington, DC thus reason for the voyage. Nellie and Algy conducted their courtship by correspondence, exchanging letters through the spring of the following year after they met. By the summer of 1873, it became apparent their relationship was quite serious and they set a wedding date.
One newspaper carried a 12 page pictorial insert of the wedding, its presses running non-stop, unable to keep up with the insatiable public demand.
May 21, 1874, “as the resplendent marine band played Mendelssohn’s Wedding March,” President Ulysses S. Grant escorted his daughter into the East Room. Nellie was radiant, wearing a white satin gown “trimmed in rare Brussels point lace” and reportedly worth $2,000. dollars. The president “looked steadfastly at the floor” and wept. His new son-in-law would be taking Nellie to a life in England, moving into a cottage on the Sartoris family estate. They had 4 children before they separated, then while Agry was living in a Europe hotel in 1893, he died of pneumonia at age 42. They had homes in Canada, Wisconsin and Washington, DC.
After Algy’s death, Nellie remained in England until the autumn of 1894, when she returned to America with her children and took up residence in Washington, DC. 18 years after Algy’s death, Nellie married Frank Hatch Jones July 4, 1912 – her 57th birthday. The couple moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Nellie suffered a disabling stroke 3 months after the wedding, paralzyed and remained an invalid for the last 10 years of her life before her death 1922. She outlived all of her children except daughter Vivien May.
Hatch was a lawyer, Yale University graduate, Member and Chairman of the Sangamon County Democratic Committee, President of the State League of Democratic Clubs of Illinois and Secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association.
whole story: http://www.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Children-Americas-Families/dp/074344633X
Contributor: Junior Ramsey (47063838)
Married May 21, 1874 White House, Washington DC
Algernon Charles 'Algy' Satoris and Nellie Grant May 21, 1874 wedding
It was perhaps the greatest American social event of the 19th century. Finally, a White House wedding was bursting forth in full glory. The walls and staircases and chandeliers were covered in a mass of lilies, tuberoses and spirea. Florida orange blossoms had been crated up and sent north.
The bride, Nellie Grant, was the 18-year-old daughter of an American icon, a war hero and the sitting president. One historian described her as “probably the most attractive of all the young women who have ever lived in the White House.” The groom, Algernon Sartoris, was a 23 year old member of the English “minor gentry.” They had met on a cruise across the Atlantic, courting in the moonlight and stealing “away to the darkened decks for kisses,” while Nellie’s chaperones lay moaning in their cabins with sea sickness. To the public it was an irresistible, romantic story. Algy was serving as a British officer newly assigned to the British delegation in Washington, DC thus reason for the voyage. Nellie and Algy conducted their courtship by correspondence, exchanging letters through the spring of the following year after they met. By the summer of 1873, it became apparent their relationship was quite serious and they set a wedding date.
One newspaper carried a 12 page pictorial insert of the wedding, its presses running non-stop, unable to keep up with the insatiable public demand.
May 21, 1874, “as the resplendent marine band played Mendelssohn’s Wedding March,” President Ulysses S. Grant escorted his daughter into the East Room. Nellie was radiant, wearing a white satin gown “trimmed in rare Brussels point lace” and reportedly worth $2,000. dollars. The president “looked steadfastly at the floor” and wept. His new son-in-law would be taking Nellie to a life in England, moving into a cottage on the Sartoris family estate. They had 4 children before they separated, then while Agry was living in a Europe hotel in 1893, he died of pneumonia at age 42. They had homes in Canada, Wisconsin and Washington, DC.
After Algy’s death, Nellie remained in England until the autumn of 1894, when she returned to America with her children and took up residence in Washington, DC. 18 years after Algy’s death, Nellie married Frank Hatch Jones July 4, 1912 – her 57th birthday. The couple moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Nellie suffered a disabling stroke 3 months after the wedding, paralzyed and remained an invalid for the last 10 years of her life before her death 1922. She outlived all of her children except daughter Vivien May.
Hatch was a lawyer, Yale University graduate, Member and Chairman of the Sangamon County Democratic Committee, President of the State League of Democratic Clubs of Illinois and Secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association.
whole story: http://www.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Children-Americas-Families/dp/074344633X
Contributor: Junior Ramsey (47063838)
Algernon Charles 'Algy' Satoris and Nellie Grant May 21, 1874 wedding
It was perhaps the greatest American social event of the 19th century. Finally, a White House wedding was bursting forth in full glory. The walls and staircases and chandeliers were covered in a mass of lilies, tuberoses and spirea. Florida orange blossoms had been crated up and sent north.
The bride, Nellie Grant, was the 18-year-old daughter of an American icon, a war hero and the sitting president. One historian described her as “probably the most attractive of all the young women who have ever lived in the White House.” The groom, Algernon Sartoris, was a 23 year old member of the English “minor gentry.” They had met on a cruise across the Atlantic, courting in the moonlight and stealing “away to the darkened decks for kisses,” while Nellie’s chaperones lay moaning in their cabins with sea sickness. To the public it was an irresistible, romantic story. Algy was serving as a British officer newly assigned to the British delegation in Washington, DC thus reason for the voyage. Nellie and Algy conducted their courtship by correspondence, exchanging letters through the spring of the following year after they met. By the summer of 1873, it became apparent their relationship was quite serious and they set a wedding date.
One newspaper carried a 12 page pictorial insert of the wedding, its presses running non-stop, unable to keep up with the insatiable public demand.
May 21, 1874, “as the resplendent marine band played Mendelssohn’s Wedding March,” President Ulysses S. Grant escorted his daughter into the East Room. Nellie was radiant, wearing a white satin gown “trimmed in rare Brussels point lace” and reportedly worth $2,000. dollars. The president “looked steadfastly at the floor” and wept. His new son-in-law would be taking Nellie to a life in England, moving into a cottage on the Sartoris family estate. They had 4 children before they separated, then while Agry was living in a Europe hotel in 1893, he died of pneumonia at age 42. They had homes in Canada, Wisconsin and Washington, DC.
After Algy’s death, Nellie remained in England until the autumn of 1894, when she returned to America with her children and took up residence in Washington, DC. 18 years after Algy’s death, Nellie married Frank Hatch Jones July 4, 1912 – her 57th birthday. The couple moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Nellie suffered a disabling stroke 3 months after the wedding, paralzyed and remained an invalid for the last 10 years of her life before her death 1922. She outlived all of her children except daughter Vivien May.
Hatch was a lawyer, Yale University graduate, Member and Chairman of the Sangamon County Democratic Committee, President of the State League of Democratic Clubs of Illinois and Secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association.
whole story: http://www.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Children-Americas-Families/dp/074344633X
Contributor: Junior Ramsey (47063838)
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