Marriages (April 12)

Schorn - Holmes

Utica Saturday Globe, November 29, 1902

Frank Joseph and Grace May (Holmes) Schorn

At the home of the bride's parents on Franklin street in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] at noon on Thanksgiving day, occurred the marriage of Miss Grace May Holmes to Frank Joseph Schorn, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].  The parlor where the ceremony was celebrated was handsomely decorated for the occasion.  Rev. Egbert Kilpatrick pastor of the Methodist Church in Oxford, officiated, in the presence of a large company of relatives and friends.  The bride was prettily gowned in brown and white and carried white roses and carnations.  The maid of honor was Miss Alta Guile, of Oxford, and the best man Ernest R. Hubbell of Norwich.  There were many beautiful gifts.  After the ceremony a sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner was served.  The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holmes and is a winsome and accomplished young lady, having many friends in Norwich as well as Oxford.  The groom has been a resident of this village for about five years, coming here from Brainard, Minn.  He holds a lucrative position as weaver in the Norwich Silk Mills, and is popular among the other employees and a host of other friends, all of whom join in well wishes.

 

Gilbert - Smith

New York Times, Oct. 14, 1945

Announcement has been made here by Newland F. Smith of Philadelphia of the engagement of his sister, Miss Martha E. Smith, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry of Mount Holyoke College to Frederic D.H. Gilbert, son of the Right Rev. Charles G. Gilbert, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of New York.  The bride-elect is a daughter of the late Prof. and Mrs. Newland F. Smith of Charleston, S.C., where her father was for many years on the faculty of the Citadel.  She is an alumna of Mount Holyoke.  Mr. Gilbert has just received an honorable discharge from  the Army Air Forces, in which he served for more than thirty months in Africa and Italy as a staff sergeant.  An alumnus of Hamilton College and the Harvard Law School, he is with the New York law firm of Burke & Burke.

 

New York Times, June 16, 1946

South Hadley, Mass.:  Miss Martha Elizabeth Smith of this place, daughter of the late Prof. and Mrs. Newland Farnsworth Smith of Charleston, S.C., was married to Frederic Dan Huntington Gilbert, son of the Right Rev. Charles Kendall Gilbert, Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and the late Mrs. Gilbert, by the bridegroom's father here today in the Abbey Memorial Chapel.  The bride, given in marriage by her brother, Newland Farnsworth Smith Jr. of Abington, Pa., had as her only attendant Mrs. William Blakeslee Hall of New Haven, Conn.  Frederick A. Ballard of Alexandria, Va., was best man.  Mrs. Gilbert was graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.  For five years she has been a member of the faculty of Mount Holyoke.  Her husband, an alumnus of Hamilton College, attended the Harvard Law School and recently resumed law practice with the firm of Burke & Burke in New York, after service overseas with the Army Air Forces. The couple will reside in New York.