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Identifier: magazineofamericv20n1stev (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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ong been ardently attached. She wasin her nineteenth year, a beauty and a belle, a fair brunette with bewitch-ing dark eyes and glossy black hair, of decided talents, with a carefuleducation acquired in the best schools then extant. Immediately afterthe wedding the happy pair started for Ohio, where Mr. Waite was alreadyestablished in business. Mrs. Waite from the first took a prominent placein social affairs in the western community. She was noted for her gene-rosity, independence of character, good sense and refined taste. As timerolled on and Mr. Waites law practice increased, their home in Toledobecame a social centre, and they dispensed the most charming hospitali-ties. No family in the region had a wider circle of admiring friends; andas Mr. Waite grew by the force of his genius into the leadership of theOhio bar, Mrs. Waite became as if by common consent the leader in fash-ion and society. Their children were bright and promising, and were IO CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE
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CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE II given every advantage of eastern as well as western schools. Three sonsand one daughter brought music and sunshine into their dwelling. Theirdomestic life was not unlike a beautiful poem. They collected a library,choice books and periodicals were strewed lavishly through their house, andboth Mr. and Mrs. Waite in their general reading literally kept abreastwith the times. In his frequent business visits to New York Mr. Waite was nearly alwaysaccompanied by his wife. When in Europe as counsel at the Genevaarbitration, both Mrs. Waite and his accomplished daughter, Miss MaryWaite, were with him. When he took up his permanent abode in Wash-ington as chief justice of the nation, it was said, and truly said, that nolady in the land was more admirably qualified by breeding, culture andtravel for distinguished prominence in the great social structure at thecapital than Mrs. Waite, and she has ever since nobly and conscientiouslyperformed, so far as her

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