Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — Quiet But Felicitous. [ARTICLE]

Quiet But Felicitous.

A very quiet but also very felioitious marriage took place in town, last Wednesday morning, Nov. 29th., the contracting parties were Mr. John I. Gwin and Miss Ura McGowan. The ceremony was performed at 11 a. m., by Rev. 0. D. Jeffries, at his residence. No one but the parties themselves and the officiaitng minister and family were present. Mr. Gwin, jjbe groom, is the son of County Treasurer, Jesse C. Gwin, and his chief deputy. The bride is the only daughter of Thomas McGowan, our city marshal, and one of the county’s best teachers, and now teaching at Fair Oaks, and will continue in the same until the end of the school year. Next spring they will occupy Mr. Gwin’s father’s farm, in Hanging Grove Tp. They went to Monticello, Wed nesday, to spend Thanksgiving with relatives.