Friday, October 3, 2014

Marriages (October 3)

Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY]:  Jack Frost wields his icy scepter regally thus far.  Thermometer hovers lovingly about zero, as if loth to leave.  Notwithstanding, Hymen has ventured among us again.  H. Truesdell, of the firm of Truesdell & Brown, led Miss Ruby Chamberlain to the hymenial altar on the 18th of December.  The bride received many beautiful presents, besides many hundred dollars in greenbacks, a style of engraving which is universally popular.  At the same time, Truman Ford, Station Agent at this place, was untied to Miss Libbie Stowell, daughter of Jacob Stowell, Esq.  By this time, the rage for weddings became so universal that a wooden wedding was celebrated at the house of Albert Day.  It was a pleasant surprise to the happy couple who had been five years married.  The presents ranged form a pounding barrel to an elegant center table, with intermediate grades.  The officiating minister, Rev. S.W. Weiss, gave the happy couple some very excellent advice, and after enjoying a very pleasant evening, the company separated, with the impression that among the nice things to be enjoyed was a surprise wooden wedding.  [Bainbridge Republican, Jan. 4, 1873]

Last evening at 6:30 Julien C. Scott was married to Miss Anna Simonds at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Hartman, on South Main street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  Rev. A.H. Grant, rector of St. Peter's church, this village, performed the ceremony.  The wedding was a quiet one, only the immediate friends and relatives being present.  Mr. and Mrs. Scott left last evening for Buffalo where they will remain two weeks.  The groom is a bright and promising young lawyer of this village, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Scott.  He was formerly a student with and a partner of W.B. Matterson while he had his law office in this village.  The bride is one of our most estimable young ladies, being thoroughly a business woman and possessing unusual merit.  She is highly esteemed.  [June 5, 1901]

On Wednesday evening, Mar. 14th, 1906, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Emma Newton, Pearl street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], occurred the marriage of her daughter, Miss Prudence Lorene to Leo L. Nichols, of North Afton [Chenango Co., NY].  The ceremony was performed by the Rev Robert l. Clark, of Candor, N.Y., brother-in-law of the bride, only the immediate friends of the families being present.  Both parties are very estimable young people and the best wishes of their many friends follow them.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Curley, of West Newton, Mass., announce the engagement of their daughter, Barbra Ann, to Clinton H. Kingsbury, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kingsbury, of Hancock [Delaware Co., NY].  Clinton, who enlisted in Newport, R.I., about four years ago, is now electrician's mate, first class, on the U.S.S. Mizar.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 1, 1943]

One of the community's prettiest June weddings was that of Miss Rita Fluney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fluney, and Robert B. MacArthur, of Quaker Hill, Davenport [Delaware Co. NY], son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacArthur, who were married Saturday, June 12, at Sacred Heart Rectory in Stamford.  the Rev. Father John J. Carroll officiated.    [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 1, 1943]

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Poole, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], announce the engagement of their daughter, Pauline Jeannette, to Philip Currier Comings, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Comings, of Coventry [Chenango Co.,  NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 1, 1943]

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