The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-15
EEN--WHITFIEL
Corporation Attorney Married
at the Home of His
Bride Yesterday.

No. 1s1 West Seventy-fourth street,
New York, was yesterday afternoon the
scene of a very pretty home wedding of
especial interest to Jersey City because
the groom was Corporation Attorney
John Wahl Queen. of the firm of Queen
& Tenant, this city. The bride was
Miss Rebecca Bird Whitfield, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin A. Whitfield of the
above address.
1t was a pink and white wedding, and
the house was beautifully decorated with
roses, ferns. palms and smilax. The man
tells presented all the appearance of grow
ing banks of ferns and roses In full
bloom, while the chandeliers and bannis-
tiers were wound with smilax and por-
there's Of the same draped the doors.@
Shortly prior to four o'clock, the time
set for the the numerous
guests began to assemble. and the ush-
ers, Messrs. Henry Davis Whitfield, of
Harvard, '9S, a cousin to the bride; Ed
ward A. Stevens Lewis, of Hoboken;
Pierce F. Cook and Fred M. Hilton. both
of Jersey City, found plenty to keep them
busy. Then there was a general stir as
Cranmer's Orchestra rendered the Bridal
March from L~ohengrin, and the bride,
with her maids, slowly entered the room.
She was attired in a handsome imported
gown of white duchesse satin, trimmed
with silver and crystal passementerie, and
carried a shower bouquet Of bridal roses
and lily-of-the-valley. Her long veil was
caught up from the face with orange
blossoms and gracefully foated to the
end of the court train in the back. Her
bridesmaids, Misses Virginia M. Won
Lovenich Whitfield and Sue Bird Whit
field. twin sisters of the bride, were at
tired in gowns of pink mousseline de sole
over pink silk and c~arreied pink carna-
tons.
The bridal party were met at the tenn
porary floral altar by the groom, the
best man, Dr.. Louis Apgar Queen, cousin
to the groom, and the officiating clergy
man, the Rev. Wilmer Parke Bird, cousin
to the bride, and Precentor at the Catl1e-
dral, Garden City. Mr.. Edwin A. Whit
field gave his daughter away.
After the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Queen
received the congratulations of their
friends, partook of the collation. served by
Mazetti, and left for an extended honey
moon, upon their return from which they
will reside in Jersey City.
Mrs. Queen comes from an old family
with a long line of Colonial ancestors.
Mr.. Queen is a Rrinceton graduate, class
of '85. He was Southeast Club fellow in
social science at Princeton for several
years and received the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy. In 1889 he served as act
ing professor Of history and political sci
ence in the Ohio State University, at CO.
iumbus. IN 1891 MIR. Queen determined to
study law, and in the fall of that year
entered the office of Collins & Corbin, in
Jersey City, and also attended lectures in
the New York Law School. He was adj
mitted to the bar in November, 1888, and
has since then practiced in Jersey City.
Mr.. Queen has served one term in the
lower house of the New Jersey Legisla-
ture and was leader of the Democratic
minority.
Among those present at the ceremony
from this city were Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard G. Fisk, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
c. Black, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. Con-
dict, MI. and Mrs. George G. Tenant,
Miss Cora Quincy and Mr.. Robert Carey.