Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-11-27
A QUAKER WEDDING.

'OF marrying and giving in marriage
there is no end. The present season
seems to be uncommonly fruitful in we'd
dings, and the goddess Hymen has turned
the hearts of many fair women and brave
men to the consideration of those tender
relations which end, oftentimes, in union
for life. Fashionable weddings, and mar
riages in high life, have for long time
been the order of the day described at
length in the columns of all the neWspa-
pers, until they are as familiar to the pub
lie as the names of the late aspirants for
the White House. We all know how
these Trinity Chapel and Christ Church
affairs are conducted, from the length of
the trains of sixteen bridesmaids to the
number of the policemen who stood guard
on the sidewalk. How much we have
read of pulled tulle, en- train, en- painter,
diamond rings, brilliant receptions, fur
nished houses for the bride, chartered cars,
and special steamboats,; of silks, laces,
satins, India shawls and orange blossoms
Amid all this fuss and fashion, gayety and
brilliance, weddings now and then. take
place among we'll to do people which are
remarkable for their simplicity. They are
as strictly severe as the cut of Philadel-
phia Quaker's coat
A Quaker wedding is novelty to the
worlds people, and as such we present
our readers with a detailed description of
one which recently took place in the en-
terprising town of Harrison, Westchester
county. In spite of the persecution which
the Quakers suffered in early times at the
hands of the Puritans, New England and
the border land still retains many of them,
who exactly resemble their ancestors in
every particular save that they have larger
and better filled purses, But there is the
same simplicity of dress, language and
manners, and when a young Friend mar
ries young Friend QessY) maiden, he
does it in the simple style which prevails
among FrieAds and Quakers. In other
words, he marries himself
Last Tuesday evening, at the residence
of Friend John Seman, in Harrison,
Westchester county, Mr. Eugene V. Lor-
ton, of this city, married himself to Miss
Amy Il. Moshcr, of Greenwich, CT Be
it known to all of our readers, then, that
this was a regular old-fashioned, demo.
cratic, New England Quaker wedding,
which took place at grandfather's great
square country house, in the midst of all
the relations ON both sides, from the Oldest
grandparent to the youngest baby with its
thumb in his mouth. The relatives of the
young friends who were to be married
came together from all parts of the com
pass, even from the towns Of New Jersey,
the hills of Orange county, the city OF
New York, New England, and Westches-
ter county. Some of the wealthy and
highly respectable broadbrims from this
city dignifed the occasion with their pres
ence, accompanied by their wives in new
lace caps, with silk half handkerchief
shawls, and the plainest and thickest OF
silk dresses. There was plentiful sprink-
ling of the worlds people, too-younG
ladies n'pompadour waists, and young men
in swallow-tailed coats and fancy neck-ties.
But to all intents and purposes the wed.
ding was of Quaker origin, conduct and
| conclusion.
During the day of Tuesday guests were
arriving upon every train, leaving the
| cars at Port Chester. Coaches and car
riages were at the depot to convey them
| to the house, some four or five miles dis
tant, and one four in. hand team was loaded
down with something like a score of men
and women. Grandfather Seman came
down to the station in his family carriage
for the special accommodation of particu
lar friends from the metropolis. Such
heaps of boxes, trunks and travelling bags
with nurses. dressing maids and babies
was a sight to behold
Arriving at the mansion, the guests were
ushered into the parlors, where brighi
fires of wood were blazing in the grea
open fire-places. A scene ut TO I'LL Donald
q. Mitchell with Joy and call up thousand
memories Of childhood in the breasts of al
who had ever sat before the cheerful blaz'
and cracking logs The young people as
sembled in the back parlor, while the neal
relatives and aged friends were eomforta
bly, seated In the front parlor. The SemaE
family Is remarkable for the sire OF II
aged men ana women, and a. II Is long
lived family. many gray headed folks wer'
present Many of The men were almos
gigantic In stature, with broad chests, an'
a rotundity which would well become Al
Alderman In strength of constitution
and development of physique, the womel
were fully equal 70 the men. and whel