Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-18
Presidents Marriage Record.

PreS1dentS marriage Record.
The most interesting record upon the
marriage register of st. George is the
following:
1855, marriage solemnized at the parish
church In the parish of st. George. Han
over square, in the county of Middlesex
No. 4O1.
December. 1Ss6-Theodore Roosevelt.
age %, widOwer; profession, ranchman:
fathers name. Theodore Roosevelt dead;
rank or profession, gentleman.
Edith Kermit Carow. age % years
spinster; no profession; residence, Buck
lands Hotel. Brook street; fathers name
Charles Carow dead; rank or profession
gentleman.
Married in the parish church. accord
ing to the rites and ceremonies Of the Es-
tablished Church, by a license. by me.
Charles E. Camidge, Canon of New York
This marriage was solemnized between
us (signed). Theodore Roosevelt, Edith
Kermit Carow, in the presence of us
(signed). Cecil A. Spring Rice, Emily
Tyler CarOW.'
block from Regent street. the busiest and
most fashionable shopping district In the
city.
In Honor of John Harvard.
Down at Southwark, on the Thames. the
cient church of ST. Saviour's. where may
be seen the baptismal certificate of John
Harvard. founder of the University at
Cambridge. His father was a butcher,
but his responsibility is vouched for by
the fact that he was a church warden.
His mother was Katherine Rogers of
Stratford-on-Avon, who was fortunate
enough to possess considerable property,
and. among other buildings, the Queens
Of t6xyo rl/ nhoV Hodi.
Gated to ST. John the Divine has been
appropriated by the alumni of Harvard
University as shrine for John Harvard.
and two years ago beautiful stained
glass window. designed by John Lafarge,
was presented by Mr.. Choate, the Amerl-
can ambassador. as IAN emblem of the
deep-seated and abiding relation of
friendship which unites England and the
United States" 1t is composed Of six
panels. The three lower panels represent
the baptism of Christ in allusion to the
association of st. Saviour's Church with
the American nation. The upper panels
contain the arms of Harvard University
and those of Emmanuel College. Cam
an ancient window. the subject of which
IS not quite clear. but the glass is superb.
The remainder of the chapel has been
fully restored and decorated by the
alumni of Harvard University.
In the south transept is a sarcophagus
with a reclining figure in marble lying
upon the lid, and above it panel with
an inscription to the memory of William
Emerson. a member of an old Southwark
family. who died in 1876. at the age of
ninety-twO. We are assured by the cpl
taph that
He lived and died an honest man.
This was the ancestor of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, the poet and philosopher of
Concord. Mass.
Memorials of Famous Men.
In the chapel of Charterhouse School.
beside memorials to William Makepeace
Thackeray and John Leech, the carica-
turst. is tablet to the memory of one Of
the most famous and useful of the alumni
of that institution, which has been called
1.-The masterpiece of Protestant charity"
The school was founded three hundred
years or more ago for the education OF
the children Of poor parents, and many
famous men have enjoyed its benefits, in
Guiding several of the founders of the
American nation. The inscription upon
the tablet to which | refer reads as fol-
lows:
In memory of
ROGER WILLIAMS,
Formerly a scholar of CharterhouSe,
Founder of the State of Rhode Island,
And the Pioneer of religious liberty in
America.
Placed here by Oscar S. Straus.
United States minister to Turkey. 1890.
Roger Williams is supposed to have
been born in Wales about the year 1893.
but very little is known of his early life
or of his parents. until he appears as a
scholar at the Charte.nouse School on
the oJth of June, 1921. 1t is believed also
that he continued his education at Cam
bridge. He embarked at Bristol I'm the
barque Lion. December I. 1880. and ar
rived at Boston February o. 1881. In 1885,,
he was communicated from the church
for refusing to bring his children to bap-
tism. and in the winter of that year he
left Boston. moved down to the south
coast. and founded what is now the city
OF Providence.
Apostle to the Indians
a few days before leaving England
made a pilgrimage to the little village of
Nasing. and near Waltham Abbey. seven
teen miles north OF London. which