Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-29
WILL Be A NOTABLE Wedding.
Mss Florence Pullman, Daughter Of
the Car Builder,
To Be Married to F. 0. Lowden, To-
Night - The Ceremony to Take
Place in the Millionaires Palatial
Home on Prairie Avenue, Chicago
The Groom a Successful Lawyer
Who Came From tae Country.


Miss Florence Pullman and f. 0. Low
den will take place Wednesday eysl-
ing at the Pullman mansion, Prairie
avenue. Miss Florence Pullman, the
bride to-be. is about twenty-eight years
OF age, and is the favorite child OF G..
NJ Pullman, of sleeping-car fame.
Ihere are three other children, one of
them being rs.FCarolan, whose beau
tttul home at Burlirgame, near San
Francisco, is one OF the attractions of
the Pacific coast. The others are the
twin boys Sanger and G.. M.Pullman,
Jr. Sanger Pullman is learning the
dry goods business. q. NJ. Pullman, jr.,
is al Cornell, and expects to graduate
next year shortly after which Miss Fee
licitie Oglssby, daughter OF eX-Gov. Og-
les5y, Will become his wife.
Mr.. Pullman has already given his
sons and daughters a healthy start in
lie, each child on attaining its twenty
first year being presented with $780,
600, in good, solid bank stock, from the
income OF which they are expected to
defray all their personal expenses.
In addition to the carr ings OF her
that Miss Florence Pullman draws a
regular salary of $4,000 a year from
the Pullman Palace Car Company for
naming the many cars turned out CT the
big works. Miss Pullman has had var
iOus Suitors for her hand and fortune.
In 1892 the Worlds Fair brought to
this country the Prince Won ISenberg
| BierStein, nephew to The Emperor OF
Austria. and first cousin to the Grown
Prince Rudolph.
Miss Florence Pullman is a most at
tractiye girl, who is extremely popular
in society and who. in spite Of her
many social duties. finds time to give
| her personal attention to philanthropic
work of all kinds. Her selection as the
man OF her choice of a plain, everyday
! American was source Of great JOY TO
| her father, who has never concealed
his disgust for the American girl craze
for titles.
Mr.. Lowden is thirty-four years OF
/ Mimi, in 1861. His father and grand
father were born in Vermont In 1868
he was taken by his parents to Point
| Pleasant. Ia. and worked on farm,
attending school in the winter. At the
/ age Of fifteen he began teaching school.
/ He graduated from the Iowa University
/ in 1855. and began teaching in the Bur-
/ lington Qa.) High School. lie studied
/ law in his spare moments, and in 1886
I came TO Chicago and entered the law
/ Office CT Writ Dexter. After the death
! OF Mr.. Dexter, Mr.. Lowden formed
partnership with William B. Keep. Dur
/ ing the past year. however. ne has
I elected to practice alone. He is about
! FIVE feet eigh, inches tall, with light
| hair and a strong. smoOth-shaven face.
I He weighs about $50 pounds; has fine
eyes and is brilliant talker. He is
Republican. and has taken some inter
est in politics. He is a member of the
Chicago Club, the Union League, Ham
ilton and Washington Park clubs. He
is a ready after dinner speaker and is
popular in this line with his club
| friends.
This wedding, which has been antici-
pated with great interest East and
West. will be a superb bridal, the Pull
man residence lending itself with ease
to picturesque and magnificent cere-
mOnial. Miss Pullman has chosen for
her attendants her sister, Mrs.
Frances Carolan, OF San Francisco;
Miss Florence Clark, Miss Frances Al
ger. of Detroit; Miss Felicite Oglesby
and her cousin, Miss Bertha West, of
New York. Mr.. Lowden will be attend
ed by Henry l. Dawes of PittSfieid,
Mass. as best man; Frank Hamlin, KEEL
logg Fairbank, Walter Herrick, Clar-
ence Wo0lley, George Pullman and
Sanger Pullman will act as ushers.