Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1879 — The Love of a Coachman. [ARTICLE]

The Love of a Coachman.

The secret marriage of Miss Olivia, the youngest daughter of Mr. William R. Townsend, the well-known publisher of No. 189 Broadway, with her father’s coachman, follows so closely upon the marriage of the daughter of ex-Gov. Hubbard, of Connecticut, to the family coachman, that it excites considerable comment in society circles in this city and Nyack, the home of the Townsend family. The Nyack coachman’s bride is much older than her husband, Weeks plain “ Jim ” Weeks, as he is called by his acquaintances in Nyack—being 21, while the lady is on the shady side of 37. She is a brunette, dresses elegantly, is a graduate of one of the most prominent Eastern female seminaries, and was a favorite in the fashionable circles of this city and Brooklyn, in which she mingled prior to the removal of her parents to Nyack. Weeks is said to be the sole support of a widowed mother. The romantic statement that he “ has seen better days ” excites smiles among those who know him. He is said to have received a common-school education, and has for several years past earned a livelihood in various laborious avocations in and around the village, but has always borne an excellent reputation. He is described as a plain but rather prepossessing-looking man—one whom his acquaintances would never dream of playing the part of lover to the heiress of a fortune. Mr. Townsend is one of the oldest publishers in this city, and, although he has made and lost two or three fortunes, is still a very wealthy man.— New York Graphic.