Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] friends of the Richard Griswold family will be interested in the following account of the pretty wedding of Miss Annie E. Thompson, daughter of this village, who was before marriage Miss Carrie Griswold. The bride, Mrs. Tasker, is a highly accomplished girl, having been educated in the best schools in New Jersey and supplementing her studies by recent travels in Europe. She is a great favorite with all who know her. The Asbury Park Journal of February 14 says: "An exceedingly pretty wedding of local interest took place on Tuesday evening at eight o'clock at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Forty-fifth street and Fifth avenue, New York, when Miss Annie Estelle Thompson of Fourth avenue, this city, was united in marriage to Mr. Frank Archibald Tasker, of New York. The bride was given away by her father, Mr. Philemon H. Thompson, and was attired in a beautiful costume of renaissance lace over white silk. The maid of honor, Miss Faith Griswold Thompson, and the bridesmaids, Miss Josephine Reeder, of Baltimore, and Miss Marie Pritchard, of Philadelphia, were handsomely gowned in whit crepe de chene. Little Gretchen Coward, the daughter of Mrs. Emma Pratt Coward of this city, made a charming flower girl. Mr. Fred Lanborn, of New York, was the best man. The ushers were Mr. Alfred Garsia, Mr. Richard Daniels, Mr. Frank Schafer, Mr. James Embree, Mr. Griswold H. Thompson, of New York and Mr. Harold C. Severance, of Asbury Park. About three hundred relatives and near friends witnessed the ceremony, after which a reception was given to the bridal party at the home of Mrs. Edwin Garsia, 255 West Eighty-eighth street. After a rehearsal on Monday evening the groom gave a supper to the bridal party at Sherry's at which toasts were given to the long life and prosperity of the happy pair. Mr. and Mrs. Tasker left for a trip through the South and after their return will make their future home in New York." [Bainbridge Republican, Mar. 6, 1902]
Miss Margaret Rohr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Rohr, of Westport, Conn., and Kermit Nichols, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Nichols, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], were united in marriage Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at the Nichols home, Old Elm Farm, below this village. the Rev. Paul Hulslander, pastor of the Methodist Church officiated. The bride wore a soldier blue velvet corduroy dress with a shoulder corsage of red roses and white chrysanthemums. Present at the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Nichols, Emily Nichols and the Rev. and Mrs. Hulslander. A wedding breakfast was served after the ceremony. The bride is a graduate of Staples High School, Westport Conn., and the bridegroom attended Bainbridge High School and is a graduate of New York State Agricultural and Technical Institute, of Morrisville. Following a motor trip through New York and Connecticut, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols will be at home to their friends at Old Elm Farm the last of October. [The Bainbridge News and Bainbridge Republican, Oct. 9, 1941]
Mr. and Mrs. John Bennett Turner have announced the engagement of their daughter Barbara Kent, to George Skinner Ives, son of United States Senator Irving M. Ives, of Washington, D.C. and Norwich, and the late Mrs. Ives. The wedding will take place in the summer. Miss Turner, an alumna of Abbott Academy in Andover, Mass., is studying at Bennington College. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Bennett Turner, of this place, and through her mother is a descendant of Chancellor James Kent of the Van Cortlandt and Verplanck families of New York. Mr. Ives an alumnus of the Taft school and Dartmouth College, is attending the Cornell University Law School. During the war he served in the Mediterranean and Pacific, in command of an L.S.T. with the rank of Lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. He is a grandson of Mrs. George I. Skinner, of Bainbridge, N.Y. and the late Mr. Skinner. [New York Times, Dec. 28, 1947]
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