. . . residing near Youngstown, Ohio, recently sent an order to a business firm at Cleveland for a wife, to be ready for him on a certain day. Such an order took the merchants rather aback; but as the man was a good customer, they set to work to oblige him. A tolerably good looking girl was found, who could speak German and English, and very much wanted a husband. The parties were introduced, approved of one another, immediately got married and went away happy to the husband’s home.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 10, 1862, p. 2
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