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In July his correspondent was again in England, and shortly after her arrival they became engaged to be married. A few weeks later, on the 18th of August, 1874, Richard Claverhouse Jebb was married by special licence in St Mary's Church, Ellesmere, to Caroline Lane, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Reynolds, D. D., of Philadelphia, and widow of General Adam J. Slemmer, Lieut. Col. 4th U.S. Infantry. Dr Reynolds had been ordained in England and had, on the death of his first wife, gone to America, where he became rector of St John's Church, Evansburg, Pennsylvania. He married in 1832 Eleanor Evans, the youngest daughter of Owens Evans, Esq., a large landowner in Montgomery County, and a man of unusual ability and force of character. “Squire” Evans owned jointly with his cousin Oliver Evans (the well-known inventor) the first steam-mill built in America—at Pittsburg, Penn. Moved by patriotism he also built a factory in his village of Evansburg for the manufacture of muskets, when the war with Great Britain began in 1812. He married his first cousin Eleanor Lane.
To Mrs Arthur Jebb.
“Killarney,
August 28th, 1874.
Thank you very much for having ordered the cake for Trinity: I have no doubt it will deserve the epithet of the wizard stream on whose banks it has been made:—
‘The Dee by Britons long-y-gone Cleped the Divine, that doth by Chester tend.’
Well—we have been going through a series of festivities—Headley's, Killarney House, 5 o'clock tea at Beaufort, dinner party at Danesfort, luncheon ditto.
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