Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1911 — A. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, at 60, Marries Nurse Half His Age. [ARTICLE]

A. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, at 60, Marries Nurse Half His Age.

The Van Rensselaers, the stock that founder this city, are a gay lot socially wherever they llve. e Whenever you see their names in print in Eastern Newspapers it is in big\ type. A copy of the New York Evening Mail is before us, and, a dispatch from Pittsburg, Mass., relates the social sensation of that city. It is the marriage of A Cortlandt Van Rensselaer to a trained nurse named Mabel Louise Watts, who nursed the groom through a long period of sickness and won his heart while restoring his health. A Cortlandt Van Rensselaer is a member of the New York Van Rensselaer family, the silk stocking family. He is past 60 years of age and his bride is not quite half that age. He has lived at Stockbridge for a number of years, the dispatch says, and is prominent socially. The marriage took place in the Methodist parsonage at Pittsfield..