Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-03-03
AMERICANS WE'D
Union Of Miss Hartman and
Robert Livingston Gerry Al
tended With Great
Ceremony.
FOREIGN TIES, NONE

New York, March 3.-Miss Cor
pelia Hartman, second daughter of
Mr. and Mrs e. H. Hartman, vas
married at noon to-day to Robert
Livingstone Gerry, son of Commo-
dore and Mrs Elbridge r. Gerry, of
New York. The ceremony occurred
at Grace Episcopal church and was
one of the most brilliant of the
many notable weddings which have
marked the New York social season.
The beautiful old church whose
graceful spires and quaint grassed
close make a picturesque break in
the crowded shopping and business
district at Broadway and Ninth
street, was thronged with members
of the social and financial world of
the metropolis and superbly deco
rated with greens, almond and peach
blossoms and pink roses. The bride
was given away by her father aud
the officiating clergyman was Rev
DR. w. R. Huntington, pastor of
Grace church, assisted by Rev j. H.
McGuinness of Arden, where Mr.
Harriman's country place is located,
and the benediction was pronounced
by Rev w. G. Doane, the bishop of
Albany. The maid of honor was
Miss Mary Hartman, the brides sis
ter, and the bridesmaids were the
Misses Carol A. Hartman, Ruth Az
erill, Marion A. Clark. Margaret
Dix, Elsie Howland and Anita Pea-
body. The brides gown was of
white satin trimmed with point del
Venice lace and she wore Louis
XIV veil of point applique. The
color scheme of the wedding was
pink, the bridesmaids being gowned
in peach colored chiffon over taffeta
silk of the same hue, the brown
plumes of their brown hats being
tipped with peach. Mrs Hartman
wore costume of pale mauve chif-
fon embroidered with hat of the
same color. The best man was Peter
Goelet Gerry, and the ushers were
Robert Goelet, Bradish G. Johnson,
William Stackpole, Frederick Ker-
nochan, Munson Morris, William Av-
erill Hartman, all of New York, and
Aaron Davis and John S. Ames of
Boston.
The union of these two prominent
families is given peculiar interest by
the fact that it is essentially an
American marriage, there having
been no foreign intermarriages in
either family for more than hun
dred years. The brides ancestry
through the Nelson and Bleecker
line was closely identified with the |
early civil and military history of !
the republic. John Nelson, her |
great great grandfather, was a col
onel in the continental army under
and was elected from
New Jersey to both the continental |
congress and the constitutional con-
but was unable to take his |
seat in those bodies. Mr. Gerry who |
is Harvard man, is the great grand
son of that provincial patriot and
legislator, Elbridge Gerry of Massa-
chusetts, who was the founder Of
the Massachusetts admiralty court
and whose assistance and interest in
naval affairs was of great aid to the
colonies in the Revolution. He also
was member of the continental
and signer of the declara-
ton of independence. He was also
,ne of the trainers of the constitu-
lion, but refused to place his sigma
lure to the famous instrument un
The ground that 1t conceded too
great power to the president. He
was sent on a special mission to
France in 1897, was later chosen
governor of Massachusetts and was
elected vice-president of the United
States.
After a brief honeymoon in this
country Mr. and Mrs Gerry will go
abroad for an extended tour.