Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — ANOTHER FOREIGN ALLIANCE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ANOTHER FOREIGN ALLIANCE.

The Daughter of Ex-Secretary Whitney and a Scion of the House of Paget. The elder daughter of Mr. William C. Whitney, Miss Pauline Whitney, is engaged to marry Almeric Hugh Paget, who belongs to the famous English family of Pagets, and whose home i 3 in St. Paul, Minn., where he has a great deal of money. Miss Pauline Whitney has never devoted much time to society. Her mother’s death and her own ill health have prevented. She is about 20 years old, has a fine dark face and great charm of manner, and is one oi the most attractive young women whom New York society has known. Much ancestral glory surrounds the family of Paget. The founder of the family was knighted by Henry VIII., who gave him the title of Lord Paget and the Order of the Garter for services as Secretary of State.

From that time to this the name of Paget has been a great one. In the middip of the last century there was no male heir and the name might have become extinct had not an act of Parliament permitted a son of Lady Bayley, who was heiress to the estates and a Paget by birth, to assume the name and arms of his mother’s family. He was summoned to the House of Lords as the ninth Lord Paget. Those who know the Whitneys are sure that the distinction of family or the family estate, consisting of 60,000 acres, or the fine country seats of Baudesert and Plas-Newydd had but little influence with them. They think much more of the young man’s personality and achievements. In the first place he is a remarkably fine looking man. He Is tall, slender and active. He has a black mustache and the most charming manners. Men particularly admire him. When he was old enough to understand things, he came to the conclusion that the family estate was not big enough to go around so large fa family and that a younger son hadn’t much opportunity in England. Almeric Paget was only 16 when ho came to this country, He went to St. Paul and engaged in the real estate business. Now there was a time when anybody could make money in real estate In St. Paul. Blit the men who kept the money they made in the boom are so few as to be greatly distinguished. Mr. Paget was one ol the exceptions, This proves him to be a man of rare ability and judgment. He discovered that his English connections were of value. He went to London and interested rich people in the making of investments. He handled the money so well and obtained such large returns for it that he was made the representative of a large English company. He is only 30 years old, and his own efforts have made him a comfortably rich man. He is an adopted American of the very best kind and intends to continue to live in this country.

MISS WHITNEY.