01 Mar 1870, Patrick O'Neil m. Anne Bumberry, witnesses: Eugene Handreham & Mary Anne Hardrehan, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
03 May 1870, Charles S. Cleaver m. Ida A. Eddy
CHICAGO PAIR WED 50 YEARS
Trial Marriage Plan is Scored
by Mrs. Charles Cleaver
DENY WEDLOCK IRKSOME
Has the old fashioned "and they lived happily ever afterward" kind of romance takes the count in an age of xxxx? Fannie Hurst, author of conventional love stories in which conventional young men and women sigh and court and marry and live happily ever afterward, has issued a statement pointing our that life is not at all as she has industriously written it to be, that marriage is not a romance when conducted under conventional auspices, but a cordial endurance tenst overgrown with the xxxx of familiarity and contempt.
"I have been secretly married for xxx years but not living with my husband," said the authoress. "We decided that even breakfasts a week opposite each other might prove irksome and we have therefore arranged about two."
"We've been xxxxxx xxxxx opposite each other for fifty years on the average of seven times a week," said Mrs. Charles Cleaver, "and it has never been irksome."
Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary
"Not for a moment," said Mr. Cleaver. The Cleavers yesterday celebrated their golden anniversary in their home at 5427 University avenue. The Cleavers were asked for their opinion concerning Fannie Hurst's matrimonial ideas because they were representative of thousands of couples happily wedded through lon periods of years.
"I noticed the story this morning." said Mr. Cleaver. "It appealed to me as somewhat funny. I suppose it's a part of the new fanfled ideas that are taking hold in the world. Things are only what you make them and if people want to make marriage a sort of formal undomesticated business it's their own lookout.
"As for us, and I suppose thousands of other couples, marriage has meant a pleasant, worthwhile partnership in which we have shared our days for fifty years, and I am conscious of neither familiarity or contempt," Journeying to the divorce court in the county building the reporter interrogated several couples sitting on the benches waiting for the nails of justice to grind their chains apart. There was one young married woman, who had read Miss Hurst's description of her trial marriage, her radical routine, the manner in which she and her husband led their own individual lives and called each other up for dinner appointments as if they were friends.
Others Live Like Vegetables.
"Yes, that's it," said the young women. She gave her name as Mrs. Eva Welch. "But she never wrote about such things for the ma........ I've read her writings and they're all sweet and nice and goody. Of course, she's right. There are some people who maybe can live together as man and wife without losing interest in each other when they have something to xxxx about. I thought different before I got married. I'd always said the kind of stories that Fanny Hurst writes is the magazines and I thought love was a wonderful thing that once felt would last forever and ever. Well, I fell in love and got married and here I am waiting for my case to come up. The announcement made by Miss Hurst that she had been married for ten years came as a surprise to her many friends in Chicago, who, thought intimately acquainted with her during the five years know her only as Fannie Hurst and never suspected her marriage.
Intends to Remain "Miss Hurst."
Although the secret is out. Miss Hurst says she expects to be known to her friends and the world as "Miss" Hurst until she dies. She and her husband Jacques S. Danielson, pianist and composer, were married in Lakewood, N. J. by a magistrate in May, 1915, and have ever since maintained separate apartments and and entirely independent existence. Thus the fact was known to early six friends of both.
"We decided that seven breakfasts a week opposite one another might prove irksome," she said. "Our average was xxx. We decided that invariably being invited to the same social functions might gradually resolve itself in the usual marriage wrangled of dragging on another to places we did not want to go to. We have maintained our separate groups of friends. Child Would Take Paternal Name.
"We also decided that in the event of offspring the child should take the paternal name until reaching the age of discretion, when the decision would be with him or her.
"My husband telephones me for a dinner engagement exactly the same as xxxxx of my other friends. I have the same regard for his plans."
-- Chicago Daily News, 4 May 1920
1870 - SO LONG, SO SHORT A TIME - 1920
Bride and Bridegroom as They Looked Fifty Years Ago and as They Look Today, Celebrating Their Golden Anniversary.
THEIR MARRIAGE COACH A BUGGY 50 YEARS AGO TODAY
Wedding Bells Again for Chicago Pair. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cleaver, as they were and as they are. Below the The Tribune account of their wedding, published May 3, 1870.
Fashionable Wedding
A fashionable wedding took place last evening at the Ninth Presbyterian Church, Miss Ida A. Eddy and Charles S. Cleaver being the happy principals. Extensive preparations were made for making the occasion attractive to all, and, at the hour set for the commencement of the ceremonies, an immense concourse of ladies and gentlemen has assembled. The officiating clergyman, who married the couple, was Rev. Alfred Eddy, father of the bride. The bridal procession marched into the church headed by four bridesmaids and groomsmen. The bridesmaids were Misses Kitty Eddy, Cora Eddy, Myra Cleaver, and Annie Fell; the groomsmen were C. E. Dickenson, W. A. Bond, F. W. Cleaver, and H. B. Goodwin: ushers, J. S. Scoville, James Springer, W. R. Root, and W. H. Cleaver.
The bridal presents were both numerous and magnificent, embracing the set of pearl jewelry from the groom, a gold watch and chain from the groom's father, besides a large number of other presents from friends of both parties. The pair left Chicago last night for Europe, via the Michigan Central Road. (The following appears to be part of an incomplete article) Somewhere in the Colossus of Brick and steel that is Chicago there dwells a soul of the city, the essence of its being --- at once the reason and the inspiration of its progress. What is the soul? Simply the aggregate of qualities possessed by the ordinary, od fearing citizen, content to pursue the even tenor of his normal way. As news is recon coned he is obscure, for he seldom lifts up his voice in the halls of politics, and his constructive life is Sunday; helped the sick and needy; participated in all neighborhood activities that could advance the weal of the community; and Mr. Cleaver has always studied his ballot religiously "to vote for the candidate I consider the best man for the job."
They had taken a honeymoon trip to Europe. Mr. Cleaver's father was...
--Chicago Tribune, 1920
14 Apr 1872, George _______ m. Annie O'Neill, Witnesses: John O'Neill & Catherine _______, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
05 May 1872, John Sullivan m. Ann Rafferty, Witnesses: John Duffy & Mary Riordan, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
02 Jun 1872, James Quinn m. Annie McDermott, Witnesses: Patrick Lynch & Mary McDermott, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
09 Jul 1872, John Jordan m. Maria McDermott, Witnesses: Mr. & Mrs. McDermott, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
29 Aug 1872, John B. Sullivan m. Ida Judson, Witnesses: Daniel Sullivan & Maggie Sullivan, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
26 Sep 1872, Clark-Douglass married, on Thursday, at the Church of the Epinhany, by the Rev. C.P. Dorset, Mr. Howard Clark and Eliz C., second daughter of Thomas Whitehead Douglas, Esq., all of this city.
28 Sep 1872, Curtin-McClellan married, in Evanston, by the Rev. Dr. Chapel, Mr. T. M. Curtin and Miss O. G. McClellan, both of Chicago.
10 Sep 1872, Stevenson-Dill married, in Dromare Presbyterian Church, County Tyrone, Ireland, by the Rev. Dr. Dill, assisted by Rev. P. Hay, Mr. Robert Stevenson of Chicago and Miss Minnie Dill, daughter of the officiating clergyman.
01 Oct 1872, Johnston-Robinson married, at the residence of O. J. Manra_ Esq., by the Rev. Charles Peckins, Mr. J. H. Johnston to Mrs. G. H. Robinson, both of Chicago.
01 Oct 1872, married in this city, at the residence of L. M. Sherwood, By the Rev. Daniel Lord, Mr. Charles F. Whitney of Des Moines, Iowa, to Miss Sharah Curtis of Bridgeport, Conn.
01 Oct 1872, Dougall-Walker married, at the M.E. Church, of Lemont, by the Rev. Samuel Paise, Dr. Wm.. Dougall and Cassie Walker, daughter of Edwin Walker, all of this place.
02 Oct 1872, Harrington-Durant married, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev. Wm. Harrington, of Sycamore, Ill., J. Frank Harrington, of Aurora, Kan., and Rita Durant, of St. Charles.
02 Oct 1872, Hennberry-Young married, at St. Patrick's Church, on last evening, by the Rev. Dr. McMullen, Mr. James Hennberry and Miss Rose A. Young, all of Chicago.
03 Oct 1872, Burt-Fitzgerell married, at St. Patrick's Church, by the Rev. P. J. Conway, Mr. Martin C. Burt of New York and Miss Nellie A. Fitzgerell of Milwaukee.
05 Oct 1872, Smith-Fitch married, in this city, 2nd inst, at Plymouth Congregational Church, by the Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, Mr. Charles M. Smith of Providence, R.I., to Miss Mary C. Fitch of Chicago.
30 Oct 1872, Francis _____ m. Ellen Sullivan, Witnesses: James McGrath & Kate McGrath, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
02 Nov 1872, Michael O'Sullivan m. Jane Cosgrove, Witnesses: Michael Dillon & Anne _____, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
14 Nov 1872, Thomas Nagle m. Bridget O'Neil, Witnesses: John Walsh & Mary Moore, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
18 Nov 1872, Christopher O'Brien m. Anna McClair, Witnesses: James O'Neil & Sarah McCabe, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
19 Nov 1872, Patrick Kellegher m. Mary McCafferty, Witnesses: James Gillooley & Mary McCafferty, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
22 Nov 1872, Patrick Murry m. Delia Tracy, Witnesses: Patrick Lyons & Margaret Shay, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
25 Jan 1873, John Brennan m. Catherine Foughner, Witnesses: Thomas Sullivan & Julia Chapman, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
18 Aug 1873, Jeremiah O'Sullivan m. Annie Duffy, Witnesses: W. H. _____ & Mrs. N. _____., St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
04 Oct 1873, Joseph Drappel (?) m. Miss Catharine Tracy, Witnesses: John McGinnis & Caroline McGinnis, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
01 Jan 1874, Thomas Patrick O'Mally m. Lizzie A. Sullivan, Witnesses: Michael O'Mally & Bridget Sullivan, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
14 Feb 1874, Thomas English married Ellen Connors in Cook County, IL, Vol 086, license #00114972
19 Apr 1874, Andrew Bowen m. Elizabeth Sullivan, Witnesses: John Cullen & Bridget Sullivan, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
04 Jun 1874, John Healy m. Dohanna Fox, Witnesses: E.A. Seger & Margaret O'Neil, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
06 Sep 1874, John O'Neil m. Mary McQuaid, Witnesses: Martin & Hanna McQuaid, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
14 Sep 1874, Alexander White m. Catharine McNeil, Witnesses: Richard Fleming & Margaret Maher, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
17 Sep 1874, John _ McGeary m. Margaret O'Neil, Witnesses: Rich & _____ Reidy, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
21 May 1876, Dennis O'Brien m. Maggie Lyons, Witnesses: Daniel Sullivan & Annie Egan, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
16 Jul 1876, Patrick O'Neil m. Bridget Birmingham, Witnesses: James Murphy & Mary Madden, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
03 Jul 1877, William Mackie m. Rose A. McDermott, Witnesses: James Howe & Maria Jordan, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
15 Jun 1878, Dennis Sullivan m. Mary Monahan, Witnesses: Daniel Sullivan & Eleanor Creeden, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
17 Nov 1878, Daniel Curtin m. Mary Green, Witnesses: James Sullivan & Bridget Green, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
05 Dec 1878, John Connelly m. Ellen McDermott, Witnesses: John McDermott & Mary Bradley, St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash, Chicago, IL
| McHenry | Lake IL |
| Kane |
 |
| DuPage | Lake IN |
| Will |
