Divorce and wedding in one bottle — history from the 19th century

Divorce and the Wedding occasionally manage to combine. A similar story ended with a secret wedding in Connecticut, just a few hours after the divorce in New York.

Future newlyweds got into their trains, writes Xrust to meet in Greenwich. They were accompanied by the spring of 1889. The guides checked their tickets, and five hours earlier, the court in New York recorded the divorce of the bride. This is the beginning of the story about Jesse Sloon and Perry Belmont. Their engagement was measured for hours.

On his journey to the church on the top of the hill in Greenwich, the future Jesse Belmont and her groom, the two most outstanding members of the 19th century high society, managed to combine romance and scandal on a one -day trip to the priest’s residence. But in addition to marriage, they left behind a cloud of suspicion and a personal tragedy for the person who married them.

Everyone who celebrates Valentine's Day will probably remember those impulsive newlyweds who, for the sake of their love, were severely punished, as well as a man who agreed to combine them in marriage contrary to the customs of that time.

Cherniles barely managed to dry out on the approval of New York The judge of the divorce of the former Jesse Sloon, who laid the end of her 17-year marriage with Henry Slown, another rich representative of the highest society of that era, the wedding trip to Greenwich took place. In an agreement on a divorce, which was classified from the public, Belmont was called a co-stand.

After all the legal formalities were settled in New York, as if Kupidon’s arrow flew at the speed of a racing locomotive on a train that went at 6:30 pm from New York to Greenwich to hastily hold a wedding ceremony in the house of the Second Congregationalist Church.