Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — LINCOLN’S GRANDDAUGHTER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LINCOLN’S GRANDDAUGHTER

I Is a Happy Bride, but Papa Will Not Forgive Her. Miss Jessie Lincoln, daughter of Col. Robert Lincoln, and granddaughter of the immortal “Abe,” is a happy bride, but mingled with her happiness is much sorrow. She is a bright and handsome young woman and a favorite in Chicago society. A few days ago she married without her father's knowledge, a youth named Warren Beckwith. The young husband is a fine-looking fellow, with some means and a liking for athletics. But he has never been thrown on his own resources and therefore has not as yet displayed any business ability. Papa Lincoln was furious when bis daughter returned home

ami told of her marriage. He sternly refused to give her his blessing and the bride left home and is now living with her husband at Mount Pleasant, lowa. She is deeply in love with Mr. Beckwith and will remain with him. while hoping that her father’s heart will relent. But the colonel shows no sign of forgiving her. Commissioner General Powderly of the immigration bureau has received a telegram from Inspector Baldwin in Mississippi stating that he had secured the arrest 6f nineteen others of the party of Austrian stove cutters, recently brought to this country under eon tract.

MRS. JESSIE LINCOLN BECKWITH.