Marriages (July 7)

Mr. & Mrs. George Baldwin

Utica Saturday Globe, February 1915

50th Wedding Anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. George H. Baldwin

Front:  Mrs. Baldwin, Miss Mary Louisa Baldwin, Mr. Baldwin

Rear:  Mrs. William A. Baldwin, William Baldwin, Miss Ruth Baldwin, Albert K. Byrd, Mrs. Albert K. Byrd

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mr. and Mrs. George H. Baldwin observed the 50th anniversary of their marriage Monday.  The celebration of their golden wedding began on Sunday with a family dinner at their home at 42 Hayes street.  Those present, besides the venerable couple were:  Mr. and Mrs. Albert K. Byrd, of New York; Mr. and Mrs. William A. Baldwin and two daughters, Ruth and Mary Louisa, of this city.  Monday about 50 friends called to pay their respects and left many gifts of flowers, cut glass, gold and silver articles.  Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin were assisted in receiving by their daughter.  Mrs. Byrd, their son, William A. Baldwin, and Mr. Byrd and Mrs. Baldwin.  No formal invitations were issued and the reception was thoroughly enjoyable.  George H. Baldwin and Lucia A. Merchant were both born in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] and grew to manhood and womanhood in that village.  Mr. Baldwin enlisted in the Eighty-ninth New York Volunteers in October, 1861, and after serving three years was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of service with the rank of first lieutenant. After his return to civilian life he entered the mercantile business at Guilford Center, was later appointed postmaster under President Grant and also served his town as auditor for two years, town clerk four years and supervisor six years.  Lieut. and Mrs. Baldwin were married in Christ Episcopal Church in Guilford, February 22, 1865, and made their home at Guilford Center and Guilford until their removal to Norwich in 1883.  Mr. Baldwin was engaged in the grocery business here from 1880 to 1886.  He has served as under sheriff, excise commissioner and justice of the peace.  Their children are Catherine B. Byrd, wife of Albert H. Byrd, of New York, and William A. Baldwin, assistant postmaster of Norwich. The grandchildren are Ruth, Catherine and Mary Louisa Baldwin.  Of the wedding party of 50 years ago there are nine survivors, among them James B. Alcott, of Guilford, a comrade of Mr. Baldwin, and a guest at the reception Monday.

 

Benedict - Fulton

Utica Saturday Globe,  June 1914

A beautiful spring wedding was held June 18 at the Shattuck homestead, south of this city, when Miss Ruth Fulton, of Pasadena, Cal., became the wife of Dr. Stanley R. Benedict, of New York. The ceremony was performed under the large trees on the front lawn, with only the members of the immediate families present.  Dr. Charles A. Fulton, of Boston, uncle of the bride, officiated. The wedding march was played by little Jean Ellis, of Buffalo, a cousin of the bride.  Mrs. Benedict is the daughter of Mrs. Beatrice Shattuck Fulton, of Pasadena, formerly of Norwich, and granddaughter of the late J.S. Shattuck. The groom is the son of Prof. W.R. Benedict, and is a professor of chemistry in the Cornell Medical College, of New York.  Dr. and Mrs. Benedict will spend the summer in New Hampshire and in the fall will reside in or near New York.

 

Mr. & Mrs. Albert Seymour

Bainbridge Republican, November 22, 1917

Coventry [Chenango Co., NY]:  A pleasant surprise was given Mr. and Mrs. Albert Seymour Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1917 it being the 50th anniversary of their marriage. Between 60 and 70 relatives and friends went to their home and informed them they had come to help them celebrate the (not very common event), their 50th wedding anniversary.  Mr. and Mrs. Seymour though much surprised received them all cordially, and were made very happy by the efforts of their friends. A delicious chicken pie dinner was served with all the good things that go with it.  A very happy day was passed and a further evidence of the respect and esteem in which Mr. and Mrs. Seymour are held.  In behalf of the friends Rev. G.A. Joscelyn presented them with a purse of gold with appropriate remarks. The day was perfect and the wish of friends was that their declining years the remainder of life's pathway might be as the beautiful autumn day which they had just enjoyed.

 

Elliot Danforth to Wed

Chenango Union, December 2, 1897

A New York dispatch of Monday says:  The announcement of the engagement of former State Treasurer Elliot Danforth, Chairman of the State Democratic Committee, to Miss. Mary B. Roat, of Riverhead, L.I., is made.  Mrs. Roat has been a teacher in the public schools at River head for a number of years.  She confirmed the report of the engagements.  She said that a date for the wedding had not been fixed yet. Elliot Danforth is a native of Middleburgh, Schoharie county, N.Y.  He is 47 years old.  He was elected State Treasurer by a handsome majority in 1889 and re-elected in 1891.

 

Chenango Union, December 16, 1897

Elliot Danforth said to a N.Y. World reporter a few days ago in regard to his engagement with Miss Roat that he was very much embarrassed by the rumor connecting his name with that of Miss Roat. The young lady, he said, is a personal friend of my family, as her parents were before her.  Our engagement has never bene announced and publication now is unfair to her and highly embarrassing to me although I hold her in the highest esteem, as I have for years--Bainbridge Republican.

 

[Note:  At the time of these news items, Elliott Danforth was a widower, his wife (Ida Prince) having passed away in 1895.  He died 7 January 1907 (Age 55y) in Manhattan]