Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — Winning a Bride. [ARTICLE]

Winning a Bride.

Jaftoes Dunlap, of New Haven. Conn,, applied fo®apposition as farm hand at Deaoap EMridge’s faftn.'at Lansdale. Pa.,.twelve' yeerasiro dud was pm *< work*. EldVitig o ! bad a dafiaiter-L - ,venjjs.pld, who became *\ t i< Dunlap, and after acquaio ta yearS he asked the detUJoo’aconseu I the daughter's bandJn naarriflle. r'i i. deacon qijectrtl because of DaWa'p'*’ penniless'doudition. The ‘girt pWfhised to gain her father’s consent or put an i end to her an'iappy existence. I> - left the farm, declaring that he Would some day return a man of wealth cud influence. Ho went to \yyqn<<iig Territory where he obtained a sitnctlon as driver on a stage li»e, and ?*ie end of five years fie purchased,a half interest in the business. By shrewd financiering aud successful speculations cleared £20,000, which, with .the profits from his business, gives him the title of being one of the wealthiest re*i'■•■•♦h of Wyoming. He is also one of .itit .fieav i, .'ockholders in anew nafiro-t-i enterprise. He returned to Lansdale on Thursday after au absence of ten years, and was married Saturday to Miss Eldridge. The wedding a graniLaflair. The bridal coUple went to Hew H*ven, whence tq Wyoming. The bride has rejected many offers in the past ten years. Sbe s the belle of Lackawanna Valley. Noah Webster once taught singing School in Baltimore.