Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1901 — Many Denominations in One Wedding [ARTICLE]

Many Denominations in One Wedding

“The college roommate of a friend of mine was engaged to a lady In New York,” writes the Rev. D. M. Steele in his article on “Some People I Have Married,” In the Ladles’ Home Journal. “His people are Congregationalists, but while at Yale he became a Unitarian. Her parents are Roman Catholics, but she was a member of the Ethical Culture Society at Carnegie Hall. In compliance with her mother’s wish he asked five different priests to marry them, but all refused. In despair he came for me. I married them, an Episcopalian, with the ritual service In a Presbyterian chapel. The Roman Catholic hrotherfof the bride and the Congregational sister of the groom were present. This sister acted as one witness; the other witness was a Jewess.”