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| <tab>He was married in 1840, the year he began his Cornwall law practice, to Marie Christine Waggaman, an American of distinguished family. Her father had been a Whig senator for Louisiana in the U. S. Senate. He is said (Rose) to have “owned a large plantation of negroes.” He was killed in a duel in 1843. Marie Christine’s mother belonged to the old French planter families of Louisiana. Marie Christine’s brother Eugene Waggaman was a colonel in the American Civil War and was one of the officers who surrendered with Lee at Appomattox. Sandfield Macdonald and his wife lived in Cornwall, at their home Ivy Hall, where they were known for their generous and indeed lavish hospitality. In the 1890s, Ivy Hall became the Hotel Dieu Hospital. Marie Christine long survived her husband, to die at Cornwall 3 Sept. 1909. | <tab>He was married in 1840, the year he began his Cornwall law practice, to Marie Christine Waggaman, an American of distinguished family. Her father had been a Whig senator for Louisiana in the U. S. Senate. He is said (Rose) to have “owned a large plantation of negroes.” He was killed in a duel in 1843. Marie Christine’s mother belonged to the old French planter families of Louisiana. Marie Christine’s brother Eugene Waggaman was a colonel in the American Civil War and was one of the officers who surrendered with Lee at Appomattox. Sandfield Macdonald and his wife lived in Cornwall, at their home Ivy Hall, where they were known for their generous and indeed lavish hospitality. In the 1890s, Ivy Hall became the Hotel Dieu Hospital. Marie Christine long survived her husband, to die at Cornwall 3 Sept. 1909. |
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| <tab>For a note on other Glengarrians who became speakers of legislative bodies, see Archibald J. McDonell. | <tab>For a note on other Glengarrians who became speakers of legislative bodies, see [[mcdonell_archibald_j|Archibald J. McDonell]]. |
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