Weddings & Divorces in History on August 22

1848 Soldier and later US President Ulysses Grant (26) marries Julia Dent

1900 Oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (44) weds Carrie Estelle Betzold in New Mexico Territory

1925 Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson (28) weds teacher Maryon Elspeth Moody (23)

1931 FBI agent Melvin Purvis (27) weds childhood sweetheart Marie Rosanne Willcox at St. John's Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina

1944 Writer Jack Kerouac (22) weds author Edie Kerouac Parker