Beaufort County NcArchives Marriages.....Harris, Corland - Campion, Minnie 1896
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Charlotte Observer - Apr 17
Love At Last Found A Way

Miss Minnie Campion Married - She Escaped from Home Again and Met Her Lover in 
New York State and They Were Wed

The New York Herald of April 12th contains the following, dated Newburg, NY, 
April 11th, which will be read with interest here:

"News of the recent romantic marriage of Miss Minnie Campion, of Washington, 
NC, to Corland R. Harris, a young man of Matteawan, NY, came out tonight. The 
bride is the only daughter of a wealthy lumber dealer at Washington. Mr. 
Harris manages a minstrel troupe part of the time. Last spring, while Harris 
was advance agent for a circus company, he met Miss Campion in a western New 
York town, where she was visiting relatives. She was a pretty young girl of 
nineteen, and it was a case of love at first sight.

"When Mr. Harris left town he carried the picture of the Southern beauty with 
him. Soon afterward Miss Campion returned to her home in Washington. In the 
meantime the couple corresponded. Mr. Campion intercepted one of Harris' 
letters one day last January, and there followed a stormy scene between him 
and his daughter. Miss Campion the same day hastily left her home, and two 
days later appeared at Matteawan, where she was welcomed by her lover. The 
couple intended to get married at once. Mr. Campion, however, reached 
Matteawan on a train the same day, before the ceremony could be performed. He 
met Harris at the Commercial Hotel, and after an angry interview with him left 
in triumph for his Southern home, taking his daughter with him.

"Harris received a telegram last Tuesday evening from his affianced, dated 
Cold Spring, NY. She said she had again escaped from her father and would meet 
him at that village. Harris and another young man drove to Cold Spring the 
same evening. The following day the former was married to Miss Campion, the 
ceremony being performed by a justice of the peace at Cold Spring. The couple 
are spending a few days of their honeymoon in Matteawan. Miss Campion was 
accompanied North by Miss Kate Quinn. Harris had written to his bride's 
father, and the couple are looking for forgiveness from him by mail or wire."

The bride, as will be remembered, is a niece of Mrs. Swinson, of North College 
street, this city. The Observer wrote the first chapter in her love story the 
particulars of which will be easily recalled; how she left home (Mrs. 
Swinson's) one night several months ago to go to prayer meeting and the next 
thing heard of her she was in New York with her lover; how her father went on 
to New York, found his wayward daughter and brought her back to the Old North 
State. She was not a "tar heel," it seems, for she did not stick. The story is 
concluded above.

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