Evening star., 1914-04-12
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Coming Weddings.

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The marriage of Miss Anna V. Portner
and Representative Henry y. Flood OF
Virginia will be largely attended at All
Souls Church next Saturday afternoon
at : O'Clock \ reception will follow
at the Highlands. where the bride-to-he
and her sister have made their home
recently The bridal party is a large
one. and includes as matron and maid
of honor the brides sisters. Mrs
Lorimer Graham and Miss Hiidesarde
Portuer. and the following bridesmaids;
Baroness Marie Paumgartten, daughter
of the ex-secretary Of the Austro-
Hungarian embassy, and lifelong
friend of the bride: Miss GeneEieVe
clark, Miss Hannah Tayi ior MISS
Douglass Fuller of Winchester. va:
Miss Cornelia Claggett and Miss Edlth
Oracle of Washington Miss Lucy
Martin. the schoolgirl daughter or the
senator from Virginia.
Mr.. Harry Flood Byrd of Winchester.
Va, will be best man. aud the ushers
viii he Representatives Mckellar and
Iupre. John Barrett. director general
If the Pan American nion, Thomas
Billinr Byrd Of Richmond. Richard
Evelyn Byrd. $ n; John Campbell
OF Baltimore, John Quinn Of New York.
COl. Button, Paul y. Portner and Ed
ward c. Portner
There will be first rehearsal for the
WeutlHE oil MISS toItutt dl1 MI. + 1000
Friday evening, and q dance and supper
with the bridegroom as host Will follow.
Tomorrow Mrs Clagett will give a
bridge tea for Miss Portner. Wednesday
Miss Genevieve Clark will entertain her
and her attendants at luncheon. and
Wednesday night Mr.. and Mrs. Austin
p. Clapham will give a dinner dance in
honor OF both bride and bridegroom at
the Chevy Chase club. Thursday Mrs.
oscar c. Portner will entertain her sis
tcr-in-law and her attendants at lunch
~on. Several other events have been
ranSed for this bride. filling almost every
hour of her time until she leaves Wash
iiSton for her honeymoon trip. The
friends OF Representative Flood are just
as strenuous. and several stag dinner
and luncheon parties Will be given him
by his colleagues.
\ wedding Of widespread interest will
take place Thursday evening next at
o'clock at Zion Episcopal Church. Fair
fax. Va. when Miss Betsey Page will
become the bride of Norman Joseph
c;aynor of New York. The bride will
suter the church with her brother. John
Page of New York. and Jonathan Grout
son of former Controller Grout OF New
York. will be best man. Rev. Frank
Page. father of the bride. assisted by his
cousin. Rev. James W. Morris of Monu
mental Church, Richmond. Will perform
he marriage ceremony, and Miss Tillie
Z. Page will attend her sister maid of
the historical rectory at Fairfax for the
family and few friends. Owing to the
recent death OF the groom's father the
wedding is to be rather a quiet one. The
couple will sail April 21 from New York
ON Mediterranean trip, to be absent
several months. During their stay
abroad they will be the guests of Am
bassador Thomas Nelson Page and Mrs
Page in Rome.
Miss Page is the daughter of Rev.
Frank Page and Mrs Page who was
Miss Lettie Morris Of Hanover county,
and is prominently connected in Virginia
She is a niece OF Ambassador Page and
of Roswell Page. second auditor of the
state of Virginia. She is a granddaughter
Of Edward Watts Morris of Hanover
county, whose home. Clazemont. was the
scene of many hospitable functions in
the girlhood days of the youthful brides
mother. The bridegroom is q son of the
late Mayor Gaynor and Mrs Gaynor of
New York and he is graduate of Col
gate College. Hamilton. y. y. The mar
riage will culminate a romance which
began when Miss Page was but ten years
old. The bride has received a large
number of beautiful gifts. Members of
the Gaynor family will be guests at the
rectory. Mrs. Gaynor. mother Of the
bridegroom; Miss Helen Gaynor. Miss
Ruth Gaynor. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Vim
gut. Mr.. and Mrs Seward Webb, Mr..
Rufus Gaynor and Mir. Il. 7. Bedford
fiance of Miss Helen Gaynor, will
come from New York for tine wedding
Miss Julia w Robbins. one of the most
beautiful and widely known young
women of New York society. and Mr..
lydiS Hoyt. whose family, like that of
Miss Robbins. has been identified with
society for several generations. will be
married in June. The ceremony will be
in the chapel of st. Georges Church.
large reception will follow. Mrs. John
W. Minturn viii attend her sister
The coming marriage of Miss Eliza
beth Somerville Wilson of Upper Marl-
ooro. Md. and T. Brooke Lee, son of
tnited States Senator Blair Lee of Mary
land. will unite two of the oldest families
of the south. Mss Wilson is the daugh-
ter of the late State Senator Joseph :.
Wilson of Maryland and a cousin of the
late Senator William B. Clasett Through
her grandmother, Mrs. Eva Clagett, Miss
Wilson Is a descendant of the old knick-
erbocker families of Coeynans. Yates,
Van Ness. Antherp and Yer Plank
Mr Lee is graduate of Princeton.
HIS family is a branch of the Lee fam
ty of Virginia. He is also d descendant
OF the Blairs, a family influential in the
DAYS Of jackson and Lincoln. His pa
ternal grandmother was a daughter of
Francis p Blair. n close friend of An
drew Jackson and the sister of Post
master General Montgomery Blair in
Lincoln's cabinet. Another brother was
MAJ. Gen Francis Z. Blair of the Union
army and a United States senator from
Missouri. Mr.. Lees mother. who died
several years ago, was Miss Anne Clymer
Brooke Of Berks county. Pa
The wedding will take place in Trinity
Episcopal church in Upper Marlboro.
The Rev. Randolph H. McKim of This
CITY, whose wife is the grandmother of
young Mr.. Lee. VIII oficiate
The maid of honor will be Miss Carroll
Wilson. sister of the bride. The brides
maids will he Miss Louise CIagett of IN
per Marlboro and Miss Mary Iglehart of
baltimore, cousins OF the bride Miss
jeanette Yates Hawkins of Washington
aiso cousin, will be the flower girl.
The best man will be Harold n l1ar
Vey OF New York, who was a roommate
OF Mr. Lee at Princeton. The bride will