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Engagements
Mellon - Lee / Roebling - O'Brien / Lorenzz - de Ferraris / Claaussen - Juliaan / Vanderbilt - Davies / Stevenson - Hewitt / de Rothschild - Dupont / Eagels - Warren / Kahn - Whelan / McKim - Field

Saturday, Mar. 10, 1923, Time Magazine:

Mrs. Nora McMullen Mellon, 44, divorced wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, to Arthur Lee, 30, until recently proprietor of a small art store in New York. Secretary Mellon divorced Mrs. Mellon in 1910 for desertion.

Mrs. Blanche Estabrook Roebling, of Manhattan, to Colonel Arthur O'Brien, Assistant Secretary of War under Newton D. Baker.

Saturday, Apr. 21, 1923, Time Magazine:

Dr. Albert Lorenz, Jr., 38, son of Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the Austro-Newark surgeon, to Margaret de Ferraris, daughter of Arthur de Ferraris, celebrated portrait painter. Last Christmas Dr. Lorenz was refused a license to marry Baroness Stancovic of Austria shortly after her arrival in New York on the ground that she had no right to remarry.

Sonja Claussen, daughter of Mme. Julia Claussen of the Metropolitan Opera Co., to Eric Harris Julian of Tuscumbia, Ala.

Saturday Jun 4, 1923, Time Magazine:

William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt by his first marriage, and grandson of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Emily O'Neill Davies, of Manhattan.

Gordon Stevenson, the artist, to Miss Candace Hewitt, a granddaughter of the late Abram S. Hewitt, one time Mayor of New York.

Baron James Henri de Rothschild, " handsome, young banker," who has been studying in America, to Mile. Claudia Dupont, French debutante. (A $500,000 breach of promise suit instituted by Mile. Marie Porquet against Baron de Rothschild in the New York Supreme Court has been withdrawn.)

Monday, Nov. 12, 1923, Time Magazine:

Rumored Engaged. Miss Jeanne Eagels, leading lady in Rain, to Whitney Warren, Jr., son of Architect Whitney Warren of Manhattan. Both Miss Eagels and Mr. Warren, Jr., refused to confirm the report. Mr. Warren's father issued an emphatic denial.

Monday, Oct. 20, 1924, Time Magazine:

Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, famed Manhattan banker, to Miss Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, of East Orange, N. J., United Cigar Stores President.

Monday, Nov. 17, 1924, Time Magazine:

Miss Harriet Winthrop McKim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop McKim of Tuxedo Park, to Augustus B. Field Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Field, of Manhattan. Both are direct descendants of Thomas Buchanan, 18th Century merchant, whose great landholdings in New York founded many a proud fortune.

Marriages
Vanderbilt - Whitney / Vanderbilt - Morgan / Mellon - Lee / Miller - Bliven / Potter - Saltonstall / Schurman - Cushman / Lament - Miner / Hagen -Straus / Hoar - La Farge / Kresge - Mercer / Siki - Werner / Damrosch - Littell / Van Rensselear - Sewall / James - Arm / Choate - Harding / Hughes - Basualdo / Albee - Cotter / Holt - Keene

Saturday, Mar. 10, 1923, Time Magazine:

Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, of Manhattan, and Miss Marie Norton, in Paris.

Reginald Vanderbilt, brother of Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Gloria Morgan, daughter of the American Minister to Holland, in New York.

Saturday, Mar. 17, 1923, Time Magazine:

Mrs. Nora McMullen Mellon, former wife of Andrew W. Mellon, to Harvey Arthur Lee, in New York.

Martha Miller, 24, author and sculptress, who accompanied the Carl Akeley expedition to Africa in 1921, and Albert L. Bliven, 25, in New York. They plan a 50,000 mile honeymoon, including lion hunting in the Congo and tiger hunting in India.

William Chapman Potter, President of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, to Rose Lee Saltonstall, at Dedham, Mass. He was divorced in Paris last October by his first wife, Mrs. Caroline Morton Potter, who since then married Harry F. Guggenheim.

Saturday, Apr. 21, 1923, Time Magazine:

Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr., a son of the American Minister to China and former President of Cornell, to Mary Allerton Cushman, in Manhattan.

Thomas S. Lament, 24, eldest son of Thomas W. Lamont, New York banker, to Miss Elinor B. Miner of Rochester.

Saturday, May 5, 1923, Time Magazine:

Walter Charles Hagen, 29, British open golf champion, and twice American champion, to Mrs. Edna Crosby Straus, 32, in Manhattan. Mrs. Hagen's first husband died in 1919. Mr. Hagen was divorced in 1921.

Saturday Jun 4, 1923, Time Magazine:

Miss Louisa Ruth Hoar, step-daughter of Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker of the House of Representatives and granddaughter of the late Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, to Christopher La Farge of New York, grandson of the late John La Farge, artist, and great-grandson of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Among the guests (in Washington) were the President of the United States and Mrs. Harding.

Monday, Nov. 12, 1923, Time Magazine:

William H. Vanderbilt, a son of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons, to Miss Emily O'Neill Davies, in Grace Church, Manhattan. After the ceremony several shop girls and sweatshop workers crowded past the police guard, entered the church, took as souvenirs some of the pale pink chrysanthemums tied in clusters to the pew ends.

Monday, May 5, 1924, Time Magazine:

Sebastian S. Kresge, 56, famed five and ten cent store operator, to Mabel Doris Mercer, daughter of George A. Mercer (onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie) and divorced wife of Percival Harden, publisher of The Club Fellow (a weekly similar to Town Topics—only more blatant); in Manhattan. He was divorced (TIME, March 3) by Anna Harvey Kresge, who charged lack of affection, sulking.

Monday, Aug. 4, 1924, Time Magazine:

Battling Siki, 23, famed Senegalese pugilist, to Miss Lillian Werner, 30, octoroon, of Memphis, Tenn.; in Manhattan

Monday, Nov. 17, 1924, Time Magazine:

Miss Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter Damrosch, famed conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, to Robert Littell, one of the editors of The New Republic; in Manhattan, on her 21st birthday. Granddaughter of James G. Elaine (of Maine), she is niece of Anita McCormick Blaine of Chicago.

Miss Sylvia G. Van Rensselaer, granddaughter of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, of Manhattan, to Harold Ingalls Sewall, of Boston and Porto Rico; in Manhattan. It is claimed that Miss Van Rensselaer, a member of one of the oldest families in the U. S., can trace her descent through nine Colonial Governors from the famed Jack Spratt of nursery rhyme.

Monday, Dec. 15, 1924, Time Magazine:

Olivia James, of Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass., to Chanler Arm strong Chapman, of Manhattan, son of John Jay Chapman (see Page 20); at Boston.

Miss Marion Choate, daughter of Joseph H. Choate, Manhattan financier, to Charles B. Harding, son of J. Horace Harding; in Manhattan. Miss Choate is a grand daughter of the late Joseph H. Choate, famed U. S. Ambassador to England; Mr. Harding a great-grandson of Jay Cooke, Civil War financier.

Monday, Mar. 2, 1925, Time Magazine:

Miss Leonora Hughes, 26, partner of Maurice (Mouvet), famed dancer in cabarets and night clubs* in the U. S. and Europe, to one Carlos Basualdo, Argentine millionaire; in Manhattan. Maurice is said to have sobbed, groaned, wept piteously during the ceremony, was mollified when his ex-partner wept with him, invited him to the wedding breakfast.

Monday, Mar. 23, 1925, Time Magazine:

Reed A. Albee, son of Edward F. Albee, President of B. F. Keith's Theatres Co., to Miss Frances Cotter, buyer for a Manhattan shop. He was divorced by Louise Williams, actress, a month ago.

Apr. 6, 1925, Time Magazine:

Elliot Holt, 30, son of Publisher Henry Holt, to Miss Elizabeth B. Keene, 22, Greenwich Village Follies dancer; in Manhattan.

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