Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-03
MI. Sayre a Pennsylvania.

Ahi. DONe S NodyIc, WHO HOW
shares this agreeable publicity with Miss
Wilson, is Pennsylvania. and was born
in South Bethlehem in 1885. He was two
years at Hill School. Pottstown, Pa. and
two more at Laurenceville School, Lau-
renceville. n. j., from which he gradual
ed in 1904. Entering Williams College
the following year, he was manager OF
the foot ball team. organized and was
president of Good Government Club, as
sisted in Y. NJ. c. A. work, was valedic-
torian of the class of 1909, and a member
of Sigma Phi Fraternity, Gargoyle So
ciety and Phi Beta Kappa. He spent two
summers with DR.. Grenfell on the Strath-
coma, the Alaska relief ship, and in 1900
entered Harvard Law School. from which
he graduated with honor. His vacation
last year was spent in Alaska and north
ern Siberia. He is now in the Office OF
Charles S. Whitman, district attorney Of
New York.
The father of Mr. sayre, the late Rob
ert Heysham Sayre, died in 1907. He
built the Lehigh Valley railroad. and
was later assistant to the president of
| that road. He also built up and becam,
works (now Bethlehem steel works.. He
also was president of the board of trus-
tees of Lehigh University.
| His widow, Mrs. Martha Finley Nevin
| Sayre. is the daughter of John VIII am
son Nevin, theologian and president of
| Franklin and Marshall College. Lancas-
| ter, Pa. She is descended from a franz
err of the Constitution. Hugh William
/ SON. member of Congress. Her brother
was the late Robert j. Nevin. head of
| the American Church of Rome, Italy
and she is a first cousin of Ethelbert
/ Nevin, composer.
/ Mr.. Sayre's only brother is Rev. John
Nevin Sayre. Princeton 'O7, Cambrige
| II, who is now in China.
Wedding Date Not Announced.
No announcement has been made OF
| the date of the wedding or that it is in
| tended to be at the White House, but
| that the engagement was told from the
| home of the President the general
opinion follows that the wedding also
| will be there. That it will be a cere-
| monious events or merely a family one
opens another wide field of conjecture
| The wise ones think that a wedding
| modelled after that of President Cleve-
land and Miss Frances Folsom. at which
only their relatives and members OF the
| cabinet and their wives We're present
offers distinguished 1is,tiag shed precedent. In
Jessie Wilson will be the thirteenth
bride to pledge her troth there, but only
the fifth daughter Of a President Hel
predecessors in this latter historical dis
| married to her cousin. Samuel Gouver.
neur: Lizzie Tyler. daughter of Presi-
dent John Tyler, who married William
| Waller: Nellie Grant, the only daughts
of President Grant, who married Alger-
| last of the White House brides. who
married Nicholas Longworth in the cas-,
| room in February, 1906.
The other White House bridal couples
1811-Lucy Payne Washington. sis.
ter of Mrs. Madison, and Judge Todd
of Kentucky.
| 1s12-Anna Todd, cousin of Mrs
Madison and Representative John G.
Jackson of Virginia.
| 1S26-John Adams, son of President
John Quincy Adams. and his cousin
Helen Jackson.
| 1S29-37 Jackson administration -
Della Lewis, friend of President Jack
son, and Alphons E.: Joseph Yver Pageo,
Easton. niece of President Jackson. and
Lucien B. Polk; Emily Martin. con-
nection of the jackson family, and
Lewis Randolph.
1s7s-Emily Plat, niece of President
HAYES. and Gen. Russell HASTINGS
1Ss6-President Grover Cleveland and
Frances Folsom.