Divorce and Wedding in One Bottle – A 19th Century Story
Divorce and wedding are rarely managed to be combined. A similar story concluded with a secret wedding in Connecticut, just a few hours after a divorce in New York. The future newlyweds boarded their trains, as reported by https://xrust.ru/, to meet in Greenwich. Spring 1889 accompanied them. Conductors checked their tickets, while five hours earlier, a court in New York recorded the divorce of the bride. This is the beginning of the tale of Jessie Sloan and Perry Belmont. Their engagement lasted mere hours. On their journey to the church on top of the hill in Greenwich, the future Jessie Belmont and her fiancé, two of the most prominent members of high society in the 19th century, managed to combine romance and scandal in a one-day trip to the residence of the clergyman. But in addition to the marriage, they left behind a cloud of suspicion and personal tragedy for the man who wed them. Anyone celebrating Valentine’s Day is sure to remember those impulsive newlyweds who faced harsh punishments for the sake of their love, as well as the man who agreed to unite them in marriage against the customs of the time. The ink had barely dried on the approval from the New York divorce judge for the former Jessie Sloan, which ended her 17-year marriage to Henry Sloan, another wealthy representative of high society from that era, when the wedding trip to Greenwich took place. In the divorce agreement, which was kept secret from the public, Belmont was named as the co-respondent. Once all legal formalities were settled in New York, like Cupid’s arrow, they sped along at the speed of a racing locomotive on a train leaving New York for Greenwich at 6:30 PM to hastily conduct the wedding ceremony at the home of the clergyman of the Second Congregational Church. At this prominent location in Greenwich, marked by a tall steeple visible for miles around, their bold embrace of forbidden love captivated the entire nation and left a cloud of scandal hanging over the majestic Gothic church where they married. The morals of that period were much stricter, especially in New England, and divorce was heavily stigmatized, said Jeffrey Bingham Mead, who researched the incident for a podcast he produces about Greenwich and its history. Jessie Sloan also had two minor daughters at the time of the divorce, aged 15 and 10, and the terms of her divorce settlement forced her to forgo any contact with them until they turned 21.
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