Marriages (April 17)

Invitations have been received to the wedding reception of Betsey Grant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon Bromley Horton, and Mr. Fred Eugene Knapp.  The event occurs at 345 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, Thursday evening, January eighteenth.  [Notation:  1900]

 

Dr. W.R. Hitchcock, of New York, and Miss Emily C. Brown, daughter of Charles K. Brown, were married by Rev. A. Coons Tuesday afternoon.  They left for their home in New York.  Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock and daughter, of Oneonta, and a few other relatives were present.  [Notation Jan. 30, 1900]

 

Mr. Don C. Pratt and Miss Mabel Myrick were married at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening at the M.E. parsonage in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] by Rev. Mr. Frisbie, and have commenced housekeeping in the Erwin Gifford house on South Main street.  [Notation:  Feb. 14, 1900]

 

On Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], occurred essentially one of the most fashionable weddings ever witnessed in this place, in the marriage of Miss Mary Catharine Robinson of Unadilla, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Robinson with Mr. Walter S. Knapp, the only son of C.A. Knapp of Sioux City, Iowa.  St. Matthew's church was artistically and beautifully adorned with flowers and palms, and the edifice was filed with guests.  When the organist, Mrs. A.S. Barnes, of Oneonta, ceased playing a quiet little prelude, and the strains of the wedding march swelled through the church the large audience knew the bridal party had arrived.  The movement down the center aisle, of the impressive group was watched with admiration.  Mr. Wm. M. Armstrong, of St. Louis, and Mr. George Lewis of Binghamton, two of the ushers, advanced.  The maid of honor, Miss Mary L. Follett, of Sioux City, with stately grace, preceded the four bridesmaids, Miss Nellie S. Myrick, of Binghamton, Miss Anna Eliza Mulford, of Unadilla, Miss Leila Marsalis, of New York city and miss Ada Lilla Arms, of Binghamton. The other ushers, Mr. Chas. E. Crothamel, of Scranton and Mr. C. Taylor Leatherbury, of New York, were followed by the bride, leaning on her father's arm.  The bride was gowned in white satin, an train, trimmed with real lace and chiffon, She carried no flowers but held a prayer book.  The five pretty young ladies wore gowns, quaint and almost colonial in design, identical in every detail. The material was pink organdie, the trains being of generous length.  Pink bows graced their hair and in their hands, gloved in pink, each carried a bouquet of white chrysanthemums, tied with white ribbons.  The entire Episcopal service was used by the rector of the church, Rev. Dr. Parke.  The benediction was pronounced as the happy pair knelt on a white satin pillow, also made from the same material as the wedding gown.  At the palatial home of Mr. and Mr. Robinson a reception followed, about 75 guests being entertained from 9:30 until 12 o'clock.  The parlors and dining room were fragrant with flowers, the color scheme of the wedding, pink and white, being observed.  The occasion was one of rare pleasure.  The guests enjoyed immensely the inspection of the great number of costly, beautiful and useful gifts.  The gift of the groom to his bride was a star brooch set with diamonds, a most beautiful conceit.  The bride's father presented her with a check of $500, and the groom was similarly remembered by his father.  Each guest at the reception was given a tiny square of wedding cake neatly encased in a white box with the initials K-R delicately wrought in silver on the top.  Mr. and Mrs. Knapp left the same evening for Sioux City.  The bride was one of Unadilla's most popular young ladies.  The groom is a stockholder and actively connected with the wholesale hardware establishment of The Knapp & Spencer Co., of which his father is the head, and which is one of the strongest business concerns in the West.  [Notation:  Oct. 18, 1900]

 

William D. Thomas, of the firm of J.E. Hirt & Co., proprietors of the merchant clothing store in the Thomas block, Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], and Miss Mabel Whitman, of Pruyn Hill, this village, were married in Sidney, Monday, April 2d [1900] by the congregational clergyman, Rev. W.T. Edds.

Spohn - Hamilton:  J. Frederick Spohn and Miss Sigrid Aida Hamilton, both of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], were married in Christ church Binghamton, Saturday last, March 21 [1903], by Rev. Harry Longley.