Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — MATRIMONIAL EXPERIENCES OF A FORMER CITIZEN. [ARTICLE]

MATRIMONIAL EXPERIENCES OF A FORMER CITIZEN.

Thirty-eight years ago, Daniel W. Dumond became a resident of Walker township, Jasper county, bringing a wife and two children, a son and daughter, from Lowell, Ind. The wife was formerly a Miss Dickson, and of a well-to-do family. Hard times seem to have created stormy times for Dan, and after a few years of unpleasant family relations he disappeared, leaving hie entire family. Perhaps fifteen years or more elapsed before he was heard of. He had then secured a divorce from wife No. 1 and had married a lady of southern birth who claimed to be an authoress of considerable means. At this time Dan became £ Christian preacher and traveled a great deal and made his home in various states from Ohio to California. After about ten or twelve years of married life, wife No. 2 died. Dan then went over into Canada where he took up a homestead and secured a widow of considerable wealth for wife No. 3. This wife died about 18 months ago, and Dan, having already sold his homestead for $3,200, came back to the States. , During the early fall he visited his Bon Henry at Lowell, Ind., and while there he succeeded in winning for the second time the heart of wife No. 1, and now she has become wife No. 4. He has become a citizen ot the U. 8. again and with his son Henry has gone oyer into Montana, where they have filed on homesteads and the son being a carpenter, are there now building a new home in a new country for a new wife.