Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-03
With the Bonds of Matrimony
Two Great Fortunes Are
Linked.
BRIDEGROOM AN AMERICAN.
Not Titled Foreigner is Robert Ger
ry, But the Descendant of II Fam
lily That Made History.

New York. March 3.-MiSS Cornelia
Hartman. second daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. e. II. Hartman. was married at
noon today to Robert Livingston Ger
ny, son of Commodore and Mrs. Elbridge
T, Gerry of New York. The ceremony
was at Grace Episcopal church and the
wedding was ono of the most brilliant
OF the many notable ones which have
marked the New York social season.
The beautiful old church, whose grace
ful splre ana quaint glassed close
make a picturesque break in the
crowded shopping and business district
at Broadway and Ninth street was
thronged with members of the social
ana financial world of the metropolis
and supcrbly decorated with green's,
almond and peach blossoms and pink
roses
the bride was given away by her
father and the officiating clergyman
was the Rev. Dr.. w. X. Huntington,
pastor OF Grace church, assisted by the
Rev j. III. MeGinness. of Arden, where
Mr. Harriman's country place is To-
Gated and the benediction was pro-
nounoed by the Right Rev. w. G..
Doane. the bishop of Albany The
maid of honor was Miss Mary Harri-
man, the brides sister, and the brides
maids were the Misses Carol A. Harri-
man, Ruth Averill, Marion A. Clark
Margaret Dix, Elsie Rowland and
Anita Peabody
THE BRIDAL GOWN.
The brides gown was of white satin
trimmed with point del venice lace and
she wore Louis XIV veil of point APP
plique. The color scheme of the we'd
ding 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 a superb costume of pale mauve
chiffon embroidered, with hat of the
same color. The best man was Peter
Goelet Gerry, and the ushers were
Robert Goelet. Bradish j. Johnson,
VIM. Stackpole, Frederick kernochan,
Munson Norris. VIM. Averill Hartman,
all of New York. and Aaron Davis and
John S. Ames OF Boston.
THE WEDDING BREAKFAST.
After the ceremony a breakfast and
reception were held at the Hartman
Residence, SIS Fifth avenue, and there
the scheme of decoration was yellow
consisting largely of delicate forsytia
and yellow rose. while the illumination
the effect of softened sunlight.
The union OF these two prominent
families is given peculiar interest by
the fact that IL is essentially an Am
erican marriage. there having been no
foreign intermarriages in either fam
lily for more than a hundred years.
The brides ancestry, through the Mel
son and Bleecker line. was closely
identified with the early civil and mill
itaiy history or the republic.
THE FAMILY TREE.
John Nelson. the great-great-g grand
father, was a colonel in the Continental
army under Washington and was elect
ed from New Jersey TO both the Con-
tinantal congress and the constitution
al convention, but was unable TO take
his seat in those bodies Mr.. Gerry,
who ia a Harvard man, Is the great
grandson OF that provincial patriot and
legislator, Elbridge Gerry, of Massa-
Massachusetts admiralty court and
whose assistance and interest In naval
affairs was af great aid to the colonies
in tho revolution. He was also a mem
Der of the Continental congress and n
sIpner of the Declaration of lndepen-
dence. He was also one of the franz
ers of the Constitution, but refused to
place his signature to the famous In
strument on the ground that II con-
ceded too great power 10 the president.
He was sent on a special mission TO
France in 1897. was later chosen gov
ernor of Massachusetts,, and in 1912
was elected vice president OF the Unit
ed states.
After a brief honeymoon IN this
country Mr.. and Mrs. Gerry will go
abroad for an extended tour