The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-02
MANY PERSONAL NOTES
INCLUDING MENTION OF VARIOUS
WEDDINGS.

Happy Events During Thanksgiving
ana Others to Come Ex-Park Com
missioner Andrus' Eighticth Birth
day CeIebratton-A Tree PIantin,
Episode-Other Notes of Interest.
Mrs, George p. Merwin of % Elt
street is entertaining her cousin, Miss
Bessie Humphrey, who is teacher If
one of the schools in Yonkers, N. Y
Miss Humphrey returns to her schoo
on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas j. Gibbons eel
ebrated the tenth anniversary Of theil
wedding Thursday evening at theii
home, S26 State street. A large num-
Der Of their friends came in to con-
graduate them, and extend to them
| their best wishes for many happy re
turns Of the day.
Henry f. Andrus will celebrate his
! eightieth birthday anniversary at his
home at 464 Whalley avenue on De-
cember s. Cards which were issued an
nounce that his at home hours will be
! from to 10 o'clock in the evening.
Barring various twinges of rheuma-
tism which make him occasionally feel
old Mr.. Andrus appears young for his
years and even his old friends are sur
prised to wake up to the fact that ne
| Is an octogenarian. Mr.. Andrus was
| for many years New Havens park
| commissioner, and it is believed was the
| sole and only commissioner In that de-
partment in those days. That was be-
fore the city had acquired it's present
| numerous outlying parks. Mr. Andrus
was, as usual in whatever work he UNI
dertook, very efficient and painstaking
and ever affable and genial, winning
host of friends, despite the fact that he
was a public official. He points with
just pride to one of the trophies OF his
park commissioner days and that is the
fine English live oak on the old green
which he planted when the tree was
twenty years old. 1t stands north or
Center church and Is now large tree
and thriving finely. He obtained the
tree for the city through the Kindness
of the late Richard Fellowes Of Whit
ney avenue, transplanting it from Mr.
Fellowes' fine grounds to the green. The
ball of earth that came with it weighed
three tons. 1t was one of number OF
English live oak which the late Mr..
Fellowes imported from England and
1t is a credit to our old green and bids
fair to live for centuries.
Miss Genevieve Cronan, only daugh-
taJ in, we'd
lock on Thanksgiving day by the Rev.
Hugh F. Lilly, o. p, of st. Mary's
church to Ensign Robert w. Hender-
son, during the Spanish war on the
United States man-of-war Texas"
and at present on thirty days leave of
absence. Miss Cronan is very
charming and accomplished young
lady. a graduate of the Visitation con-
vent at Georgetown; the groom Is
graduate Of the Annapolis Naval acad-
emp, class '97 The brides brother,
Ensign William p. Cronan was a
graduate of the Annapolis Naval acad-
envy 9S, and is at present on the Pa
cific coast Cards have been issued ans
nouncing Miss Cronan's and Mr.. Hen
derson's marriage.
p. j. Cronan received letter yester-
day from his son, Cadet w. P, Cronan
of the United States cruiser Marble
head. The letter was dated November
Is and the ship was then in one Of the
ports of Guatemala on the Pacific side.
The Marbehead was engaged in blow
Ing I'D some of the wreckage which
was dangerous to navigation and max
Ing surveys along the coast The ship
was soon to sail for Corinto and is due
at San Diego, Cal, January l.
William H. Corbin, Yale 49, of Yale
football fame, has taken up his resi-
dence with his family at liz Collins
street, in Hartford, he having gone into
business there with his brother-in-law,
j. A. Wiley. Mr.. and Mrs. Corbin had
lived at Stafford Springs, where Mr..
Corbin was secretary and treasurer of
the Central Wooden company.
Howard Attmore of New Haven and
Miss Josephine Mccarthy, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mccarthy of Di
vision street, We're welded in st,
Marys church, Derby, at a. M, We'd
nesday The ceremony was performed
by Rev. A. F. Carrigan of Ansonia.
The maid of honor was Miss Mary
Reed of Derby, and the best man.
James Connors of New Haven. The
bride was attired in well fitting gown
of dark brown broadcloth, trimmed
with velvet of the same color. She
wore a hat to match and carried an
ivory prayer book. The maid of honor
wore a suit and hat almost the same
as those of the bride. A breakfast fol-
lowed the ceremony. The happy couple
will reside at New Haven.
Among the guests of John H. Post,
general agent of the Penn Mutual Life
Insurance company on Thanksgiving
1ay at his residence on Edwards street
were his father, mother, brother and
his family. These together with his
own family, constituted four genera
tons that were seated at the Thanks
giving dinner The elder Frederick w.
Post was ninety-four years old on the
18th of last October. His wife will be
,ighty-four on the 4th of next March.
E. w. Post has farm in Clinton,
where he built his house seventy Years
ago, and has resided there except dur
ng the past year or so, when he and |
lis wife have lived with their son. Ezra |
.. Post, who is cashier of the Clinton |
National bank Mr.. and Mrs Post are |
n good health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Kern of this |
,ity spent Thanksgiving in Southington |