People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — GEN. HARRISON WEDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN. HARRISON WEDS.

NUPTIALS SOLEMNIZED AT NEW YORK MONDAY. The Marriage of the Ex-President to Mrs. Dlmmick Witnessed by Bat a Score of Invited Guests —Bridal Party Leaves at Once for Indianapolis. The marriage of Mrs. Mary Lord Dlmmick to General Benjamin Harrison was solemnized at St. Thomas’ church at New York city Monday afternoon at 5:45 o’clock. Dr. Wesley Brown, rector, officiated at the ceremony. The general’s children were not present. The marriage, which took place in the presence of twenty relatives and select friends of the bride and groom was a very private affair. The guests as they arrived at the church were re-

eeived by E. F. Tibbitt, General Harrison's private secretary, and Daniel M. Ransdell, who was marshal at Washington during General Harrison’s adv ministration, and were seated in the front pews of the church. At 5:20 o’clock Mrs. John F. Parker, the bride’s sister, was escorted to the front pew on the left by Mr. Ransdell and simultaneously Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot were escorted to the front pew on the right by Mr. Tibbitt. Governor Morton, attended by his military secretary, occupied the pew directly behind Mrs. Parker, and behind him sat Senator and Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, John W. Fosetr and George W. Boyd of Pennsylvania railroad. General Harrison left the Fifth Avenue hotel, accompanied by General Benjamin F. Tracy, in a close carriage, at 5 o’clock and was driven to Rev. Dr. Brown’s house on Fifty-third street. They passed through the house to the vestry, where they awaited the coming of the bridal party. y The bride left the home of her slsetr, Mrs. John F. Parker, 40 East Thir-ty-eighth street, at 5:10 o’clock. She was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Lieutenant John F. Parker, who gave her away. They arrived at the entrance at 5:20 o’clock, and proceeded to the tower-room, where the bridal procession formed. They proceeded to the chancel, where General Harrison, accompanied by his groomsman, General Tracy, received his bride. The ushers, standing to one side, faced the altar as the bride and groom stepped forward to the altar rail, where the rector, Dr. Brown, was waiting, I)r. George William Warren, organist of the church, playing the bridal music from “Lohengrin," and during the en«

tire ceremony playing v r ry so' 1 • ?'vcagi's intermezzo in the "C.;... . Rusticana." That portion o< the • vice imown tic proper, the< reci'a! of .

about fifteen minutes, was used,- and immediately the blessing was pronounced General and Mrs. Harrison, followed by Mrs. John F. Parker anT General Tracy, Mr. Tibbitt and Mr. Randell, Lieutenant Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, walked down the aisle to the strains of the “Tannhauser” march of Wagner, and entering the carriages waiting at the entrance, the bridal party was driven to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, 2 Grammercy park, where light refreshments were served, and where the party donned traveling attire for the trip to Indianapolis.

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON