Marriages (November 21)

Martin - Cumming

 

North Sanford [Broome Co., NY] was startled a few days since by the intelligence that Mr Chas. S. Martin had coolly and deliberately committed premeditated matrimony.  The victim was Miss Caroline Cumming.  [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 10, 1877

 

Mr. & Mrs. Wallace May Married 62 Years

On Thursday March 22, 1866, Wallace May and Edna Scott of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] were married in Afton by Rev. R.G. Brown and moved onto the Scott farm on Guilford St. where they have resided ever since, it being Mrs. May's birthplace and where she has always resided.  Mr. and Mrs. May are to be congratulated on their long life together and have hosts of friends where ever they are known.  Wallace visits Bainbridge nearly every day and is always a welcome guest.  The Republican extends congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. May and hope for them many more anniversaries.  [1928]

 

Jacobs - Seaman

 

In a quiet wedding at the home of her mother, Mrs. Cora Seaman, at 2 Bruce street, Walton [Delaware Co., NY], Miss Hazel Seaman, vice-principal of the Oxford Academy, was married to U.S. Marshal, Jesse Jacobs, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].  The ceremony took place at high noon, Saturday, June 27, with the Rev. H. DeCosta Finley as the officiating clergyman.  The bride wore an afternoon dress of airplane blue, and wore an orchid, and dark blue accessories.  For traveling she changed to a suit of navy blue bengaline.  The bride's mother wore dark blue shadow lace, and a gardenia corsage.  After a lunch at Mrs. Peck's tea room in Walton, the couple left immediately for a few days in New York.  They returned to the Jacobs home here Tuesday.  Out of town guests at the wedding were the bride's brother William Seaman, with Mrs. Seaman and son, Bryce, of Newtonville, Massachusetts, and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Russell of Hamden.  Mrs. Jacobs was born in Walton and was graduated from the Walton High school.  She attended Mt. Holyoke college, from which she received her B.A. Degree.  She later receiver her MA. from Columbia University.  With the exception of three years teaching in Utica.  She has spent her entire teaching career in Oxford Academy, resigning as vice-principal this June, after twenty-three years of devoted service.  Mr. Jacobs has had an active political career.  He was supervisor from Oxford from 1903 to 1909, and served from 1906 until 1913 as chairman of the Democratic County Committee.  From 1915 to 1923 he was village postmaster, when he again resumed chairmanship of the County Committee.  In 1932 he was appointed a Commissioner of the State commission of Correction by Governor Roosevelt, which position he held until his appointment to his present position of U.S. Marshal in 1935.

 

Marriage Notices - 1877

 

Bainbridge Republican, , February 24, 1877

MOON - SHAW:  In Bainbridge, Feb. 22, 1877, by Rev. G.D. Horton, Mr. James D. Moon, of West Coventry, to Miss Mary E. Shaw of Coventryville.

 

GRANNIS - DOOLITTLE:  In Bainbridge, Feb. 19, 1877, by Rev. GD. Horton, Allen Grannis of Wells Bridge, to Miss Alice Doolittle of Bainbridge.

 

Bainbridge Republican, April 12, 1877

SAGE - PARKER:  At the home of the bride, in Coventry, April 8, 1877, by Rev. N.S. Reynolds, Mr. Ransom E. Sage to Miss Nancy A. Parker, both of Coventry.

 

WHITMAN - SPENCER:  At the Congregational Church, Sidney Plains, March 22, 1877, by Rev. E.G. Cheeseman, Mr. Fredd T. Whitman of Afton, to Miss Josie E. Spencer, of Bainbridge.

 

PRATT - STOCKWELL:  In Brattleboro, Vt., Mar. 28, 1877, by Rev. M.H. Harris, Darns F. Pratt to Miss Clara Stockwell, both of Brattleboro.  Miss Stockwell is a daughter of R.M. Stockwell of this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]

 

Bainbridge Republican, May 3, 1877

BARTHOLOMEW - MARBLE:  In Sidney Plains, April 31, 1877 [sic] by C.T. Alverson, Esq., Chauncey Bartholomew, of Sidney Plains, and Mrs. Conrad Marble of Masonville.