June 20
Today in the History of Love. American businessman Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck & Co., married Anna Lydia Meckstroth, in Racine, Wisconsin. Some records give the date as June 23.
Quotation of the Day. Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). “I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for the glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.”
Word of the Day. Mail-Order Bride. A woman who seeks or accepts an offer of marriage after only a long-distance correspondence. See Chris Enss, Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier. Guilford, CT: TwoDot Press, 2005.