Chatham Gleaner, Oct. 1, 1850.
The Honorable Harris Chisholm and Mrs. Chisholm will be at home to their friends on the afternoon of Sunday, the seventh, to receive congratulations and good wishes upon the occasion of their silver wedding anniversary. Our Honorable Member wishes to thank constituents for returning him to office in the Legislative Assembly for a second term.
The family will also be celebrating a reunion of their happy circle as the Reverend Mr. Levi Chisholm, their second son, is now at home, having recently graduated from his seminary studies in Edinburgh. Eldest son, Mr. Angus, is the able manager of Cunard’s local operation, while Miss Belinda and Miss Morag will be attending Mount Allison Academy next year. Mrs. Chisholm reports that a recent parlor concert to raise funds for a public library was a great financial success.
Readers of mature years may recollect that the happy couple were wed on the very eve of the Great Miramichi Fire, a conflagration not soon forgotten in our region. Despite such an inauspicious beginning to their union, they persevered through numerous hardships in those early years, to see their deep affection and mutual constancy amply fulfilled.
“Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering barque,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken…”
Sonnet CXVI