The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-26
EMINENT CHURCHMAN'S WEDDING
 SOLEMNIzED AT BOYHOOD HOME
Rt Rev Frederick Foote Johnson Western Dignitary, Marries Elizabeth Louise Beers in Newtown-Two Prominent and Pioneer Families of State United By Ceremony.

Simplicity in the church ceremony was the keynote and the pulpit and church were decorated in the blossome of. the season in consonance with the simple bouquet of lilies of the valley carried by the bride.
 Right, Reverend Frederick Foote Johnson was born in Newtown, April 23, 1866, the son of Ezra L. and Jane Eliza Camp Johnson. He attended the public schools and the Newtown Acad- enny, and was assistant in the post office under ZalInon s. Peck. He la ter taught school in Newtown for a few years and was also employed as clerk with Sanford and Hawley be- fore entering St. Stephens college. Annandate, New York; in 1887. He was obliged to leave St. Stephens because of illness and later he en- ltered Trinity College, Hartford from which he was graduated in 1894. While in college he oh1ciated lay reader at St. Pau1'ss Huntington, and at Trinity church, Tariffviue. His theological course was taken at Berke- 1 ley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn. During a part of that time he was pri- vate secretary to the late much be- 1 loved Bishop Williams of Connecticut.
 FIe was ordained deacon in Trinity church, Newtown, November il, 1896, and was advanced to the priesthood ] at Denver Col, in 1897. After some missionary work in Colorado and in Utah, he went to Redlands, California. l in 1899. as rector of Trinity church there for five years. Thence he was called to do missionary work in west ern fields of religious work under the late Bishop Vinton. While in Red lands he was married to Miss Susan I L.. Beers, daughter of the late SiIas Norman Beers and Sarah Nichols of 1 Newtown She died at RedIands, Cal, June 29, 1901, leaving a. son, Frederick Foote Johnson, Jr., who is now a. stu dent of the Sanford school, Redding. In 1905 he was elected as assistant to the late Bishop Hare of South Da- kota., and was consecrated to that of fee in Trinity church, Newtown, No I vember 2. 1s05- In 1911 he was elected bishop eoadjutor to Rt, Rev. Daniel s.
 TSfttle fo Missouri, who is presiding bishop Of the Episcopal church in the
 United States Bishop Johnson as stunned his duties there in Jai1uary, 1 191 2, with a residence in the Episcopal I see of St. Louis.
 i His bride, Elizabeth Louise Beers. i. l the youngest daughter of the late Dan. 1eI Glover Beers of Newtown. and. Ara. I bella Fitch, descendant of a pioneer
 family of the New Haven settlement | She is therefore a cousin of the de. ceased wife of her consort. She is z st native of NewtoWn,. a product of it I public schools and the Newtown acad ] eny and loves to be out of doors. ana is interested in religious and 1iterar! I work She cannot fail to be a help
 mate, as well as wife, to her husband in his field of religious activity, whicE I is opening up vast vistas in the futlr,
 of the West in which he7is destined to
 take still more prominent part.
 j. Out of town guests at the weddinE I were Rev. and Mrs. John N. Lewis
 Waterbury; MT. and Mrs Merit l Hemningway, Watertown; MT. anC
 Mrs. Charles Ensign, TariffviI1e; Mrs
 William F. Lamb, Waterbury; Mrs. E I V. z. Lane, New York; Rev. and Mrs C. J. Sniffen, South Lee, Mass; Mrs
 derrick. New Haven: Mrs. Georg Camp Waterbury,; MT and Mrs A
 A Benedict, Waterbury; MT. and Mrs
 ohn Keeler and family, Seymour; MT
 and Mrs. c. w. Bonney, Stamford
 MT and Mrs c. w. Vail, Stamford
 Miss Fitch. New Haven, and MT. an,
 Mrs H. SC. Beers and family, Pitts field, Mass.