On Christmas Day in 1871, at the age of 24, Edison married his
16-year old employee Mary Stilwell, after meeting her just two months
earlier. By February, Edison was exasperated at his wife's inability to
invent that he wrote in his diary "Mrs Mary Edison My wife Dearly Beloved Cannot invent worth a Damn!!" and "My Wife Popsy Wopsy Can't Invent." Mary gave birth to three children, the first two Edison nicknamed "Dot" and "Dash."
Two
years after Mary died, Edison met and married 20-year-old Mina Miller.
The story of how the two met is quite interesting: After Mary's death,
Edison regularly went to Boston and stayed with his friends Mr. and Mrs.
Gilliard. The Gilliards made sure that some eligible young lady was
"visiting" at the same time. Edison, who was half-deaf, bug-eyed,
plagued with halitosis and bad dandruff, would stick his face very close
to the girl's in order to hear her words. This naturally creeped them
all out!
One day, the Gilliards introduced Edison to Mina Miller, to whom Edison was immediately smitten:
Edison
found his own version of paradise in Fort Myers, then a small village,
and apparently decided that he must do three things: build a winter home
in Florida, marry Mina, and bring her to his tropical Eden. Once back
in New York, Edison--normally a workaholic--was obsessed with his new
love. He wrote in his diary at this time: "Saw a lady who looked like
Mina. Got thinking about Mina and came near being run over by a
streetcar. If Mina interferes much more will have to take out an
accident policy."
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