The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05
Latter Is Gifted New York Heiress
and the Former Is WelI-knOwn
Citizen of Richmond, Ind.
PRINCE AND ENGLISH LADY
DHULEEP SINGH, EAST INDIAN, AND
ANNE COVENTRY UNITED.
Another American Countess Created
nv the Marriage of Gen. Won GOet-
zen and Mrs. May Stanley Lay.

NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-NIiss Margaret Van
Cortland Ogden, of this CITY, and Frank Nc
Mutt. of Richmond, Ind, were married to-
day. The wedding was very quiet affair.
onlv the intimate friends of the two fam
lilies being present. Archbishop Corrigan
performed the ceremony. The bride is the
daughter of the late John D. Ogden of New
York. She is an orphan and has been liv-
ing practically alone at her home, No. 9
East Thirty-fifth street. Her only near rel
atives are Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner Sherman,
who reside in New York, and her brother,
Frank Ogden who lives abroad. She is a
young woman of considerable wealth, hav-
ing inherited, in addition to the house she
lives in, $20OO 900 or 100000 from her father,
who died fifteen or twenty years ago. Her
total fortune is estimated at $1,OO00O0. Her
maternal great-grandfather Benjamin
Moore, was the first Protestant Episcopal
bishop of New York. and his remains now
rest under noble monument in the ceme-
terry of Trinity Church, at the head of Wall
street Her grandfather, Clement Moore,
was a poet Of some reputation, and wrote
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"
which is familiar to every child in the
country. The bride is about thirty years of
age, and is said to be woman of strong
character and intellectual tendencies given
more to charity work and study than to
social pleasures. She is a Protestant. and
very strong in her faith but Mr.. McNutt
is Catholic, and Father Van Rensselaer,.
a young priest, who has recently migrated
from the Episcopal pulpit to the Catholic
altar, is said to have prevailed on her to be
married according to the Catholic rite. The
wedding was entirely private, only few
friends being invited.
Mr. McNutt was secretary of legation at
Madrid when A. Louden Snowden was
United States minister to Spain, and later
held like position at Rome when the late
Hon. A. G.. Porter of Indiana, represented
this government at the Italian capital Mr..
McNutt has romantic history He lost
his parents in early youth, and has since
been under the guardianship of his grand
father, a wealthy banker of Indiana, named
Scott While at school young McNutt was
converted to Catholicism and went to Mex
leo, where he studied for several years UNI
der a venerable priest. who educated him
in the languages. in literature and in the
ology, and sent him to the American Col
the expectation of entering the priesthood.
After remaining two or three years McNutt
left the American College suddenly and
abandoned the priesthood. Nobody knew
why. There good deal of mystery
about it at the times He explained that he
trines of the Catholic Church. and that the
Pope released him from his vows. DR..
O'Connel the rector, and other members
of the faculty, have never seen fit to make
an explanation. Returning to the United
States Mr.. McNutt obtained an appointment
his grandfather. who was intimate and in
fluential with President Harrison. After
wards, as stated, he was with Minister Por-
ter at Rome. 'p,'N"