Ohio History Journal

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MRS

MRS. JULIA B. FORAKER

 

A REVIEW OF HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY

 

By C. B. GALBREATH

In his Notes of a Busy Life, Senator J. B. Foraker

pays the following tribute to his wife:

But among all the pleasing memories that attach to Delaware

one remains to be mentioned that outranks all others, considered

either separately or collectively. It was there I met, courted and

became engaged to Miss Julia Bundy, daughter of Hon. H. S.

Bundy, of Jackson County, Ohio, at that time, and for a number

of terms, the Representative of his district in Congress. She was

a student at the Ohio Wesleyan Female College and was grad-

uated from that institution in the class of 1868. Our marriage

followed October 4, 1870, and through all the years that have

since followed she has been my faithful, efficient helpmeet, shar-

ing alike my joys and sorrows, my triumphs and defeats. No

man was ever blessed with a better wife. When that is said all

is said, for it includes and is intended to include all that is em-

braced in the entire range of the rights, privileges, responsibilities

and duties of wife, mother and companion in an American family.

Mrs. Foraker was the daughter of Hezekiah S.

Bundy who served in the State House of Representa-

tives and Senate of Ohio and in the National House of

Representatives from 1865-1867, 1873-1875 and from

1893-1895.

In her remarkable book which has been character-

ized as "one of the wittiest volumes of social and po-

litical reminiscences that have been published in many

years," the reader, whether or not he personally knew

any or many of the eminent characters who make their

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