Woman Marries Woman, Alexandria Gazette (Article, 1886)
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WOMAN MARRIES WOMAN.-- A dispatch from Grand Rapids, Mich., to the New York World says: "Annie Hindle, who for fifteen years has been a leading impersonator of male characters on the vaudeville stage, has been playing an engagement at Smith's Opera House the past week and has become a prime favorite. At times there has been some talk about Annie Hindle not being a woman, but not much attention had been paid to the supposed 'guy' until all doubts upon the matter were set at rest late Sunday night, when at room 19 Barnard House, Annie Hindle, under the name of Charles Hindle, was quietly married by Rev. K. B. Tuppe to Annie Ryan, of Cleveland, O., who traveled with Hindle in the capacity of maid. The intended marriage was kept very quiet, and not until after the event occurred were his (or her) associates aware of the relations existing between the two. The woman who had for years been dressing with Hindle in the same dressing-room never for a moment supposed that he was anything else than a woman, and even now those who have been associated with him are loath to believe that he (or she) really married the lady named. Hindle says all that he knows about his boyhood is that he was adopted by an elderly woman in England named Annie Hindle, and named Charles Hindle. At five years of age he went on the stage in concert saloons in Hertfordshire, and he continued to wear dresses, and so became a 'woman' and finally a male impersonator. He came to this country in 1869 and soon after became the 'wife' of Charles Vivian, the English comedian, living with him for nearly a year, making a trip to California and back."
