Marriages (May 25)

McMullen - Van Buren

Utica Saturday Globe, November 1913

Earl T. & Edna May (Van Buren) McMullen

 

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  A very quiet, but pretty wedding was celebrated at the home of the bride on Sheldon street at 5 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon when Miss Edna May Van Buren was united in marriage with Earl T. McMullen. The house was handsomely prepared for the nuptial event.  Rev. A.R. Burke, pastor of the Broad Street M.E. Church, officiated in the presence of the immediate families and a few specially favored friends.  The bride was gowned in white crepe de meteor with trimmings of Chantilly lace. She carried a bouquet of roses.  The bridesmaid, Miss Hazel Van Buren, a sister of the bride, was gowned in lavender voile, trimmed with cluny lace and carried a bouquet of violets.  Harry J. Kirchbaum attended as best man.  After the ceremony refreshments were served. The wedding gifts were numerous and the congratulations most hearty. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Buren and is a young woman highly esteemed among her many acquaintances. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred McMullen and until recently was a bookkeeper in the Chenango National Bank.  He resigned to embark in the news business at Walton, in which palce  Mr. and Mrs. McMullen after a brief wedding journey will take their residence.

 

Chapman - Reed

Chenango Union, June 10, 1897

At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Reed, Hayes street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], at 8:30, Wednesday evening.  Mr. Roswell Curtiss Chapman, son of W.P. Chapman, of this village, and Miss Fannie Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Reed, were united in marriage, by Rev. Edwin Judson Klock, of the Congregational church. The bride was attended by Miss Keene, of Cambridge, Mass., as maid of honor, and by Miss Maynard, of Stamford, N.Y., and Miss Bushnell, of Philadelphia, bride's maids.  W.P. Chapman, Jr., brother of the groom, was best man, and the ushers were F.C. Woodward of New York, a classmate of the groom at Cornell, N.P. Stanton, of Oxford, John O.  Hill Reed, of Norwich, and E. Clark Reed, of Saugerties, N.Y.  Mr. and Mrs. Chapman left on the D.L.&W. train for their wedding trip, and upon their return will reside on West Main street.

 

Bixby - Gosso

Bainbridge Republican, June 14, 1917

Joel J. Bixby of this city [Norwich, Chenango  Co., NY] and Mrs. Lillian Dewey Gosso of Unadilla Otsego Co., NY] were united in marriage at noon Wednesday, June 6, 1917.  Mr. and Mrs. Bixby have started on an extended automobile trip through the states and Canada and upon their return will reside at his home at 60 North Broad street.  The ceremony as performed by Rev. Yale Lyon, rector of St. Matthew's church, Unadilla, and at the home of Dr. and Mrs. S.J. White, Mrs. White being a  sister of the bride.  Only immediate relatives were in attendance.  Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln A. Groat  of Buffalo, Dr. William B. Allen of Binghamton, Rev. Warren N.  Bixby of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. J.C.N. Williams of Albany, being present. The house was very prettily decorated with roses and other flowers and made a delightful setting for the happy wedding  party which after the ceremony enjoyed together a delicious wedding breakfast.  Mrs. Bixby  who is known to a number of Norwich people, was dressed in a becoming gown of grey georgette crepe and carried lilies  of the valley.  The hearty congratulations of a  wide circle  of friends are extended to both Mr. and Mrs. Bixby--Norwich Telegraph.  Joel J. Bixby was a former resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] and his many friends here extend hearty congratulations.

 

Spohn - Thornton

Bainbridge Republican, June 28, 1917

Married in Union Valley, N.Y. [Bainbridge, Chenango Co.,, NY], at the M.E. parsonage, Monday afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock, by the Rev. G.C. VanWoert.  Bernice Marie Spohn and Rexford A. Thornton.  They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Homer A. Hodge, he being a cousin of the bride.  Miss Spohn is well known in Bainbridge, a daughter of Mr. George Spohn, and has been a student in the high school.  For a year past she has held a position in the office at the Endicott-Johnson shoe factory.  After a few days spent in Afton, Bainbridge and Guilford, they will make their home in Buffalo, where Mr. Thornton is employed. The best wishes of many friends go with them.

 

Marriage Notices

Chenango Telegraph, May 4, 1859

 

DOOLITTLE - MILLS:  At Shanghai, China, January 11, 1859 by Rev. Samuel R. Gayley, Rev. Justus Doolittle of Fuh Chau, China to Miss Lucy E. Mills, daughter of Calvin Mills late of Guilford, Chenango Co. [NY]

 

SALISBURY - SCOTT:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], April 20, by Rev. J.D. Cornell, Frank A. Salisbury to Miss Fidelia M. Scott, all of Coventry.

 

THOMPSON - GILBERT:  In Hariem, Illinois, March 2, 1859 by Rev. L. Partridge, Isaac Thompson, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Ellen T. Gilbert of Utica [Oneida Co., NY]

 

Bainbridge Republican, April 5, 1917

 

WHITE - BENNETT:  At the home of Mrs. Mary Sackett, Spring street [Afton, Chenango Co., NY], March 14th, 1917, were married James R. White of Ouaquaga, N.Y., and Miss Martha K. Bennett of Windsor, N.Y., Rev. I.L. Bronson officiating.