Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — GEORGE D. HERRON MARRIES. [ARTICLE]

GEORGE D. HERRON MARRIES.

Socialist la United to Mlsa Rand In Rooms of a Friend. Without the exchange of the usual mat rimonial vows, with none of the ritual oi the formulas either of church or state Prof. George D. Herron, leader of th« socialist crusade, and late clergyman of the Congregational Church, took as his wife last Saturday night the young woman for whose love he had already aban doned the mother of his children. Thi unique wedding of Prof. Herron to Misi Carrie Rand took place in the apartpieuts of Dr. Charles B. Patterson, in the Schuyler apartment house in New York, in which establishment Prof. Herron has had rooms since he went to tha city early in the spring. There were no plighted vows of faithfulness, nor was there the customary bestowal of the wedding ring in token ol an indissoluble union. What meager ceremony there was attending the event was performed by Rev. William T. Brown, pastor of the Plymouth Church of Rochester, N. Y., who is in sympathy with many of Prof. Herron’s socialistic views, nnd is a member of the socialistic brotherhood. Dr. Patterson gave* a dinner to tha party after the wedding. No present* were given save of the simplest nature, except the gift of Miss Rand’s mother. This was a 35-acre farm near Metuchen N. J., where Prof. Herron and his wife are to live, and upon which Mr. Herron and those interested In the socialist brotherhood to which he belongs expect to work during the coming summer.