The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-02-09
WHEN GOULD IS
Welded TQA BARON
Young American Heiress Be-
comes Lady Decies.
SEASONS BIG SOCIAL EVENT
Lavish Expenditure Of Money Distin.
guishes the Affair-story OF the
Middle-Ased British Noble
mans Courtship.

| man SouTtSNlP'
New York, Feb 7-England's nobil-
ity was enriched by the addition Of
several more millions of American dol
lars, when Miss Vivien Gould, aged IS,
second daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Jay Gould, became the wife
of Lord Decies, middle-aged English
noblemen, this afternoon. The we'd
ding, which was the most important
social event of the season, took place
at 4 o'clock in st. Bartholomew
church, and that fashionable e6ifice
was crowded to the doors by the social
elect of this country and many mem
bers of English society. ,-
No expense had been spared in max
| ing the arrangements, and it was the
most lavish affair of this kind that
| New York society has ever witnessed,
with the exception perhaps of the we'd
ding of Miss Marjorie Gould, the
brides elder sister, which took place
| ten months ago.
Preceding the ceremony, Miss Gould
gave luncheon to her maid of honor
| Miss Edith Could and her six brides
maids, Miss Beatrice Clafin, daughter
| of Mr.. and Mrs. John Clafiin; Miss
| Hope Hamilton, cousin of the bride;
Miss Louise Cromwell, of Washington.
Miss Hannah Randolph, of Philadel-
phia; Miss Allison Pierce, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Pierce, and Miss
Emeline Holmes.
Montrose's Son Is Best Man.
Lord Alistair Graham, son of the
duke of Montrose and cousin to Lord
Decies, acted as best man, and serv-
ing as ushers were Earl Percy, Lord
| Camoya, Robin Gray, Phoenix Ingra-
ham, Moncure Robinson, Robert H.
RUSSELL Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., and
Francis w. Crowninshield.
A magnificent reception was held at
the Gould mansion on Fifth avenue
after the church service, to which all
the guests were invited. The great
house had been decorated from top to
bottom at an enormous expenditure
The bride and bridegroom will go to
California on the honeymoon trip, and
then start for London, where Baron
Decies has taken house for the sea
son. AS the groom Is a peer of Great
Britain, his young American bride will
have part in the coronation cere-
monies next summer.
Story Of Their Courtct,ip.
The marriage of this young Ameri-
can heiress to foreign nobleman, old
enough to be her father, is the cul
mination of a romance which began
in 1909, when Baron Decies visited
this country with several other Eng
lish army officers to participate in the
| Madison Square Garden horse show
He paid a great deal of attention to
the charming little American, and lin
gered in the United States several
months after the show had closed
Last November he revisited this coun-
try to take part in the horse show,
and renewed his acquaintance with
the Gould family. His marked atten-
lions to the youthful Vivien caused
a great deal of gossip in social circles
and led to the rumors of an existing
engagement As Miss Vivien had not
yet made her debut, nothing further
was said of the matter, although the
baron, instead of returning to England
after the close of the show, went to
visit the Goulds at Lakewood, n. J.
A premature announcement of the en-
gagement was made in a London So
ciety paper on December IA.
John Graham Hope Horsby Beres-
ford, Baron Decies, to give him his
full name and title, is very much OF a
man both in stature and character. He
is over six feet tall and does not look
his forty-four years. 1t was only a
short time ago that he succeeded to
the title through the death of his broth
err. The baron is a distinguished SOL
der, being Northumberland of the
Seventh Hussars, aid won his ID. S. o.
distinguished Service ORDER, in the
campaign against the Mad Mullah in
Somaliland He has been aide-de-
camp to the late Lord Connemora,
when the latter was governor of Ma
dras, and to the Duke of Connaught.
He served in the Matabele war in 1895
and in the Boer war four years later.
His peerage was created at the begin
ming of the nineteenth century In IA
vor of the youngest brother of the late
marquis of Waterford who was the
protestant archbishop of Tuam.
Baron Decies is a noted cricket and
polo player and is keenly interested