I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Only the president's son John Tyler III represented the groom's family. The news was then broken to the American people who greeted it with keen interest much publicity and some criticism about the couple's difference in age of 30 years. From 1887 he practiced in Elkhorn West Virginia.