Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1901 — Leopold-Wolf Wedding. [ARTICLE]

Leopold-Wolf Wedding.

The marriage of Miss Sadie Leopold, 0$ Rensselaer, and Mr. Leo Wolf, of Hammond, took plaoe Sunday, June 30th, 1901, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mgr., and Mrs. A. Leopold, on Front street. About 75 persons were present, mostly near relatives of one or the other of the contracting parties. The ceremony was performed at noon, by Rev. Abraham Hershberger, of North Side Temple, congregation Benai Israel, Chicago. A. Leopold, her father, gave the bride away, her sisters, Julia and Gertie and Miss Pearl Wasson, were the bridesmaids. The groom’s brother, Benj. Wolf, was the best man. Miss Pearl Hoff played the wedding march Immediately after the ceremony an elegant weddingdinner wasserv ed. Those present from elsewhere, were: Simon Leopold and family, from Kentland, Benhart Leopold and family, from Brook, Ike Leopold and family and Louie Leopold, from Wolcott, Benj. Wolf and family, Alex Wolf, Mrs. E, Smith and family of Chioago, Carl Kaufman and family, of Hammond. Also Misses Hattie Haas, Tipton, Pearl Hoff, Warren, and Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, of Frankfort. The wedding presents were numerous and very elegant. Among the most notable being a solid silver dinner service, by the Kaufmam family and a Dresden ware set by the Leopold family; and a fine piano by the bride’s father. Some of the guests left on the 2:57, 3;30 and 6:32 p. m. trains, but those of the friends who laid in wait at the depot with rice and old shoes, for the bridal couple, were sorely disappointed. For though Wolf by name they were foxey by nature, and were too smooth to be caught. They , drove to Pleasant Ridge by team, and there took the milk train for Lafayette, and from there went to Chicago over the Big Four. On July 4th they will take the steamer Babarrousa' at New York for a trip to Europe. Especially visiting the groom’s birth place, Bavaria, and Mr. Leopold’s boyhood home in Hesse Damstadt, Germany. They will be gone two months, and on their return take up their residence in Hammond, where the groom is a partner in the big department store of Kaufman & Wolf.