This tidbit about my great-great-grandpa’s brother, Valentine Scheiber, is one of my all-time favorites. It’s from the Milwaukee Sentinel, 17 November 1881:
A day or two ago, Squire McWhorter was called upon to perform a marriage ceremony with which a little romance is connected. The contracting parties were Mr. Valentine Scheiber, an old “typo” well-known to the fraternity in Milwaukee, now foreman of Culver, Page & Hoyne’s printing establishment in Chicago, and Miss Mary Triplett, also of Chicago. Miss Triplett had been induced by her parents and friends to consent to an engagement with a rich old bachelor in Chicago, but it seems that her devotion to Mr. Scheiber was of a different nature, as she arrived here with the latter gentleman and Squire McWhorter tied the knot which made them man and wife. A late dinner was served at the residence of Mr. Fred Scheiber, of the law firm of Cotzhausen, Sylvester & Scheiber, of Poplar street, who is a brother of the groom, and then the couple left for Chicago to the surprise of the parents of the bride and, no doubt, the old bachelor.
I guess this is how it was done before eloping to Vegas was invented.
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That’s great, though I must confess I had to read it three times before I actually figured out exactly what went down.
What awesome names… Valentine Scheiber, Squire McWhorter, Mary Triplett.