New-York tribune., 1920-03-28

So many engagements were an
nounced during the week that number
of summer and autumn weddings may
be counted upon, although in many
cases no dates have been mentioned
for the marriages. The engagement
Of Miss Mary Schuyler Palmer, daugh-
ter of George Carnegie Palmer, of
Morristown, to Livingston Parsons,
son Of H. de Berkeley Parsons, for
mally announced yesterday, is of spe-
cial interest to the old New York set.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William Car
ter, of Brooklyn, nave announced the
engagement Of their daughter, Miss
Florence Elizabeth Carter, to Hilary
Ranald Chambers jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. r. Chambers, of 81 West
Seventy-frst Street. and The Hillocks,
Lake Mahopac, N. Y.
The engagement Of Miss Edna Hoyt,
daughter Of Walter s. Hoyt, to William
John Warburton, son of Mrs. E. Carson
Pennal, was announced on Friday.
Another interesting engagement
iidue hHOWu early Ill tHe week was
that of Miss Dorothy Howell Black
to DR.. Charles T. Butler, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Allen Butler Miss
Black is a daughter of Mrs. Elmer f.
Black. She is now senior. at Welles-
ley College and was graduated from the
National Cathedral School Of Washing
ton In 1917. DR.. Butler, after his grad
uation from the College Of PHYSICIANS
and Surgeons in 1915, went overseas
and served under tho American Red
Gross in tho French Military Hospital
at Ris-Orangis. Later he was commits
stoned IN tho medical corps Of the
United States Army and continued
serving abroad Tor hfteen months. He
Princeton man. class Of IL, and be-
longs to the Princeton and University
clubs.
Another widely known physician,
who served overseas, and a prominent
young war worker have become en-
gagged. He is DR.. Lewis M. Booth and
she is Miss Elizabeth Willard Stead
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Thomas j.
Stead, of this city and Washington,
Or. Booth went to France with the
Mackay Roosevelt Unit Base Hospital
No. 10 and served with the rank of
captain. While overseas he was ap-
pointed chief an@sthetist of the A. E.
r.. His fiancee took the nurses surgi.
cal aid course in Roosevelt Hospital
where he is now connected, and after
would served in this city at Debsrka-
tion Hospital No. 5. She Joined her
parents in Washington last spring and
worked there at the Walter Reed Hos
pital. She is q niece Of Paul Revere
Reynolds and L. B. Rowland Brown
of this city and belongs to the Junior
League. The wedding probably will
take place in June.
Of Colonial descent and related to 80
many OF the oldest families Of the
South, the engagement Of Miss Anne
Douglas to Irving Seaman, Of Mil
waukee, Is OF special interest to So
ciety. She Is the daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Douglas, of Great Bar
rington, Mass, and descendant of
Captain Richard Douglas, one Of the
original members of the Society Of the
Cincinnati. On the distaff side she is
descended from the Marshalls of Vir-
ginia and the Pages Of New Hamp-
shire. Mr.. Seaman is president Of the
University Club Of Milwaukee. During
the war he served in Washington as .
dollar-a-year man and was connected
with the War Industries Board. He is
son of Mrs. William Stewart Seaman
and was graduated from tho University
Of Wisconsin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Ewall Stout. Of
Short Hills, N. j., have made formal
announcement Of the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Marjorie Stout, tc
Lieutenant Charles 1. Austin, U. s. N.
who is now stationed at the submarine
base ct Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Saunders NorveN, Of 80
East Sixtieth Street, have announced
the engagement Of their daughter. Mis-,
Mary S. Norvell. to Harold William
Jenny, Of Larchmont They will be
married in June.
Mr.. and Nrs. Temple ecott have IN.
nouncsd the snga6Amsnt n thsi,