Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1880

Jan 7 Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (19) weds Polish musician Antonina Korsak; she dies from complications of childbirth later that year

Apr 14 Philosopher John Muir (41) weds Louisa Strentzel

May 6 British novelist Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (60) weds Scottish banker John Cross (40) at George's, London

May 19 Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (29) weds Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne (40) in San Francisco

Oct 27 Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday