Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1918 — Clerk Issued First Marriage License in 1918. [ARTICLE]

Clerk Issued First Marriage License in 1918.

Jesse Nichols, clerk of the Jasper circuit court, issued today, Monday, January 7, the first 1918 wedding license to the following parties: John Ira Coe, born Dec. 2, 1889, in Whiteside County, Ills. Present residence, Chicago, HI. Present occupation. Plant Instructor, Montgomery Ward & Co., and Ethel Comfort Perkins, bom in Gardner, 111., October 29, 1881. Present residence, Rensselaer, Ind. Present occupation clerical. First marriage for both parties. Married this Monday afternoon at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Jay W. Stockton in Newton township, this county. It is understood that they will leave for Chicago, their future home on the 6:68 train this evening.