The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-11
WEDDING OF MOMENT.
Edison s. GaIIaudet and Miss Marion
COckrelI Are One.

Edison 8. Gallaudet and Miss Marion
COckreII Are One.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 10.-A long
list Of notable persons, headed by the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. and in
Guiding sena .ors, Ier resenta tives, Judges
of the United States Supreme Court
heads of departments, prominent off,
GERS of the army and navy, and mem
bers of the foreign diplomatic corps.
filled the fashionable Church Of the
Covenant at noon to-day, when Miss
Marion Cockre1l. daughter of United
States Senator Cockrell of Missouri be-
came the bride of Edison S. Gallaudet,
son of DR.. Edward NJ. Gallaudet, pres
ident of Gallaudet College. The we'd
ding was one of the most brilliant of
the season in the national capital,
The music and the floral decorations
of the church were on scale of great
magnitcence. The ceremony was per-
of the church. The bride looked radi-
ant, in a rich gown of white satin. as
she walked UP the aisle on the arm of
her father. The bridal party were met
at the altar by the bridegroom and his
best man, Mr. Francis Parsons of Hart
ford Miss Anna Ewing Cockrell the
debutante sister of the bride. was the
maid of honor. The ushers included
Winthrop Dwight of New York, George
D. Seymour of New Haven, John Rob-
inson Of Hartford, Frederick Allison of
St. Louis Clifford Pinchot of Washing
ton, Herbert Gallaudet, brother of the
bridegroom, and B. Cockrell and Allen
V. COckrell brothers of the bride.
At the conclusion of the wedding GER
emony the bridal party, and guests, re-
paired to Reuscher's. where an elab-
crate wedding breakfast was served.
After a honeymoon trip Mr.. and Mrs.
Gallaudet viii take up their home in
Philadelphia.
The wedding of Miss Cockrell and Mr..
GaHaudet eliminates a pretty little ro-
nance. The romance dates from the
christening of the battleship Missouri
at Newport News. in December, 1901.
Miss Cockrell was the sponsor for the
warship, and Mr.. Ga1laudet attended
the launch as the representative of his
employers, the Cramp Shipbuildng
Company, and also as Miss Cockrells
guest.
The bride has enjoyed the reputation
of being one of the greatest bellies of
the national capital. She is a tall and
handsome blond. and has been at the
head of her fathers home for the past
eight yers. Having lived all her life in
Washington, she is completely identi-
fed with resident, as well as Official,
society, and has enjoyed a unique posi-
ton AS one of the maiden hostesses of
the senatorial circle having at the age
of is, assumed the charge of her faith
er's household at the death of her moth
err. She was educated in the private
schools of this city, later going to Paris,
where she completed her studies at the
Convent of the Assumption. During
the exposition Of 1900 she was the guest
of Commissioner and Mrs. Walsh in
Paris, where she was greatly admired.
Mr.. Ga1laudet, although son of one
of Washington's prominent residents,
has spent little time at the capital since
his childhood. He was graduated from
Yale in the class Of 1893. and was one
of the best known athletes of that uni
Versity. He was stroke for the winning
crew in the boat races of 1892 and 1893,
and coach for the following year. He
was an instructor at Yale for three
years after his graduation, but Is now
associated with the shipbuilding firm OF
Cramp g. Co. at Philadelphia.