Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — MISS NEILSON, WHO IS TO WED A VANDERBILT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MISS NEILSON, WHO IS TO WED A VANDERBILT.

The formal announcement of the engagement of Miss Kathleen Neilson and Reginald Vanderbilt has been made. According to the matrons of society she is the fairest of all the fair women who have married into the Vanderbilt family.

Kathleen Neilson is Mrs. Belle Neilson’s second daughter and therefore Fred Gebhardt’s niece. It now appears that Mrs. Vanderbilt was very strongly opposed to her son paying attention to Miss Neilson'and on more than one occasion made this opposition known. Reginald, however, following the traditions of the Vanderbilt family, made his selection, regardless of the Vanderbilt family. The escapades of young Vanderbilt in New York last winter led the family to believe that matrimony might, after all, be the best cure, and all open opposition ceased. Miss Neilson is a great favorite with the younger set. She is tall and thin and is of rather a retiring nature, but she possesses numerous accomplishments, the result of her convent training.

MISS NEILSON AND R. VANDERBILT.