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ALBEE-COTTER
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.
[Monday, Mar. 23, 1925, Time Magazine]

BASUALDO-HUGHES
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. 2, 1925, Time Magazine]

BLIVEN-MILLER
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.
[Saturday, Mar. 17, 1923, Time Magazine]

CHAPMAN-JAMES
Olivia James, of Beacon Hill, Boston, Mass., to Chanler Armstrong Chapman, of Manhattan, son of John Jay Chapman (see Page 20); at Boston.
[Monday, Dec. 15, 1924, Time Magazine]

HAGEN-STRAUS
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, May 5, 1923, Time Magazine]

HARDING-CHOATE
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, Dec. 15, 1924, Time Magazine]

HOLT-KEENE
Elliot Holt, 30, son of Publisher Henry Holt, to Miss Elizabeth B. Keene, 22, Greenwich Village Follies dancer; in Manhattan.
[Apr. 6, 1925, Time Magazine]

KRESGE-MERCER
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, May 5, 1924, Time Magazine]

LA FARGE-HOAR
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.
[Saturday Jun 4, 1923, Time Magazine]

LAMENT-MINER
Thomas S. Lament, 24, eldest son of Thomas W. Lamont, New York banker, to Miss Elinor B. Miner of Rochester.
Saturday, Apr. 21, 1923, Time Magazine]

LEE-MELLON
Mrs. Nora McMullen Mellon, former wife of Andrew W. Mellon, to Harvey Arthur Lee, in New York.
[Saturday, Mar. 17, 1923, Time Magazine]

LITTELL-DAMROSCH
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.
Monday, Nov. 17, 1924, Time Magazine

POTTER-SALTONSTALL
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, Mar. 17, 1923, Time Magazine]

SCHURMAN-CUSHMAN
Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr., a son of the American Minister to China and former President of Cornell, to Mary Allerton Cushman, in Manhattan. [
Saturday, Apr. 21, 1923, Time Magazine]

SEWALL-VAN RENSSELAER
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, Nov. 17, 1924, Time Magazine

SIKI-WERNER
Battling Siki, 23, famed Senegalese pugilist, to Miss Lillian Werner, 30, octoroon, of Memphis, Tenn.; in Manhattan
[Monday, Aug. 4, 1924, Time Magazine]

VANDERBILT-DAVIES
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, Nov. 12, 1923, Time Magazine]

VANDERBILT-MORGAN
Reginald Vanderbilt, brother of Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Gloria Morgan, daughter of the American Minister to Holland, in New York.
[Saturday, Mar. 10, 1923, Time Magazine]

WHITNEY-NORTON
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, of Manhattan, and Miss Marie Norton, in Paris.
[Saturday, Mar. 10, 1923, Time Magazine]




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