The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-23
LOVE AND LEARNING.
Prof. Eckhoff and Miss Alice M.
Lockwood Give the High
School an Object Lesson.

The faculty aud pupils of the Jersey
City High School were all talking about
one thing this morning. The fact
had just been made public that
the one bachelor on the list of
the faculty, Professor William J. Eek
hoff had become benedict. Last We'd
nesday evening Professor Eckheff and
Miss Alice NJ. Lockwood, of Summit ave-
nue. were united in marriage. This 1s how
1t happened
Miss Lock wood and Prof Eckboff have
been betrothed for some time, fact
which was we'll known to their immedi-
ate circle of friends, but not to the gem
eral public. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Stein
field, of Second avenue. New York city.
are old friends of the Professor, and at
their wedding anniversaries he Is always a
welcome guest. Several weeks ago Mr..
Steinfeld reminded his friends that May
1S would be the seventeenth anniversary
of his wedding, and extended the usual
invitation. Then an idea of great size
took possession of Prof. Eckhoff's mind,
and he hied him to his af1anced.
LET us be married on the 16th," ouoth
he. @F
What Miss Lockwood replied is not on
record, but it must have been satisfactory
to the Professor, for that very day Miss
Belle Lockwood was put in possession of
the secret. so that on the 18th. she might
notify the parents of the bride. So
last Wednesday afternoon the Professor
and his betrothed, who was radiant in a
charming spring street gown. called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Steinfeld at their residence,
and were made and wife by the family
clergyman, the Rev. Mr.. Bauermeister.
Then congratulations were given and re-
ceived, and the happy couple set off for
their bridal tour, from which they re-
turned last night.
Mrs. Eckhoff is daughter of the Rev.
Richard Bowen Lockw wood, pastor of the
For some time past she has boarded on
Summit avenue, where she met Prof.
Eckhoff. Her brother, DR.. Hilliard
Lowell Lockwood. is prominent
physiciad of this city. Mrs.
Eckhof is widely known and universally
admired in educational as well as social
circles in this city, where she has been
for some time first assistant of No 90
School. She has just passed her final ex-
aminations for the degree of Doctor OF
Pedagogy. at the University of the City
of New York. where, in 1891. Prof.
Pedagogy. Prof. Eckhoff is q native OF
Hamburg. Germany, where he received
his university education, coming to this
country twenty years ago. He Is now
studying for the Pm. d. degree at Column
bia. which willebe conferred upon him In
1898. eIt is universally acknowledged that
few men in the vicinity. can
cope with him as linguist
or authority on psychological
and philosophical points. Mr.. and Mrs.
Eckhoff will reside at No. 247 Henderson
street. This marriage has lost the Jersey
City High School its one bachelor, to
whom the rest of the faculty used
to point as misguided man,
firmly fixed in the error of his
way. When he made his appear
ance this morning, the masculine con-
tingent of the faculty shook him solemnly
by the hand and remarked, in the words
of the mongrel Latin which is used by the
secret societies of the schools
Dignus, dignus es entrare
In nostro beato corpore.