Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-25
A DIPLOMATIC WEDDING.
Marriage of Eugene Schuyler. of Bnl.
garian Fame. to an American College
Presidents Daughter.

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garian Fame. to an American College
Presidents Daughter.
\ telegram from Paris. July IL. ia tho
New York World, says The great So
cml event OF the season among the
American colony III the French capital
was the marriage of Mr.. Eugene Scuy-
Ter, of the American legation nj Con
stantnople, to Miss Gertrude King,
daughter of the late President King. Of
Columbia College, New York. which
took place this morning.
The civil marriage which French law
makes necessary took place at the
Marie of the Eigth reimbursement of
Paris at II A. NJ, and the religious Ger
emony was performed Mt 4 O'Clock p. NJ.
at the house of the brides mother. in
the Champs Elysecs, by Rev. DR..
Forbes. Quite II distinguished com
pany were present, among them mem
bers of the American legation and con
sulate NJ. Washington, late Minister
OF Public instruction in France. with
his wife, who is the brides sister Mr..
Bancroft Davis, the American Minister
at Berlin several members of the Eng
hsh and German legations, and the cite
of the American colony.
The bride was dressed in a robe of
white silk, with II long white lace vest,
the latter being the same as was used at
her mothers wedding. Her forehead
was encircled bya wreath of myrtle and
natural flowers. \ splendid collation.
was served after the wedding, and the
affair throughout was very brilliant.
The newly married couple left imme-
diately after the wedding for Compiegne
and Rheims, and thence they started for
Constantlnople.
The bride is the daughter of Charles
King, the second son of Rufus King.
Mr.. King was born i'll 1889, and was at
first mcrchat, serving in 1914 term
in the legislature. From 1923 to 1915
he was editor of the american then an
Associate editor of the C0luie, and En-
qdrer. In 1919 he became President of
Columbia College, an office that he filled
for fifteen years, resigning to 90 abroad
to Italy, where, at Frascati, he died
Sept. y, 1867, less than three months
after his brother, eN-Gov. John Alsop
King. He was the author of Memoir
of the Croton Aqueduct, History of
the New York Chamber of Commerce.. y
" New York Fifty Years Ago" and ntl-
merous other historical pamphlets.
The groom, Eugene Schuyler, is the
son of Canal Auditor SCHUYLER. of this
state, and was born ut Ithica in 1910.
being graduated with high honors nj
Yale with the class of 1859. While
pursuing his postgraduate studies con
ncctcd with two scholarships that he
took, he attended the law school and
assisted President Parker in his revision
of Webster's Dictionary. Two years
after he came here and studied law
at the Columbia law school with
MesSrs. Wickcs and DeForest. With
them he spent two or three years after
being admitted to the bar then he
opened an office with son of Mr.. l.orin
Andrews, bat his profession never really
attracted him, his tastes lying rather in
the direction of literature and his con
tributionS to the Nation and other pc
riodicals being frequent When the
Russian fleet was in the harbor he de-
termined TO learn Russian--did so, and
lii 1866 succeeded III Obtaining the Con-
sulship ut Moscow, thanks to his knowl-
edge of the language, In 1869 he be
came Secretary of Legation under Min
lister Curtin, and in the winter of 1856
was transferred to Constantinoplc as
Consul General and Secretary Of Lega-
ton, His trip to the Khanates, which
inspired his book, " Turkestan," and his
reports ON the Bulgarian atrocities last
year will be fresh in the memories of all
American readers.