The Washington times., 1933-09-05
Mrs. Roosevelt
Will Attend
Wedding

No wedding Of the Roosevelt
Administration has attracted
more attention than that OF
Mrs. Sarah Jackson Coonley
and Mr.. w. Forbes Morgan,
which will take place this
afternoon at o'clock in the
Lincoln Chapel Of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian
Church in this city, the Rev.
Albert Evans officiating.
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife Of the
President, will attend the cere-
mony accompanied by her
daughter, Mrs. Curtis B. Dali,
who came to Washington last
evening from New York.
The bride -elect is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Robert Jackson, OF
Concord, New Hampshire, Sec
retary of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, who is now
living here at the Mayflower
Hotel. The engagement OF
Mrs. Coonley and Mr.. Morgan.
though anticipated for some
time past, was not announced
until a week ago.
The bride-e has spent much
time here with her father during
the past few months, and al
ready has a large acquaintance
in official and resident circles.
Her mother, the late Mrs.
jackson, was the first woman
member of the Democratic
National Committee, represent
ing New Hampshire for a num-
ber of years.
Mr.. Morgan. whose home is
in New York, is associated
with the New Deal as assistant
to Mr.. Henry Morgenthau, jr.,
governor Of the Farm Credit
Administration. He is the son
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Forbes Morgan. His first wife,
Miss Edith Hall, an aunt Of
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
died in 1920.
Son Best man
At the marriage this after
noon, Mr.. Morgan's son, Mr.. w.
Forbes Morgan, jr., will act as
his best man and the charm.
ing young bride will be given
in marriage by her father.
She will wear a modish gown
of heavy green crepe made on
the new slim lines, with a mink
scarf tied at the neckline in
Ascot fashion. Her hat of the
same shade of green has a
short brim. and she will wear a
corsage bouquet of brown
orchids.
The chapel will be adorned
with great clusters of Easter
lilies arranged against back
ground of palms and ferns and
there will be a program of nup-
tial music.
A number of important guests
from New York and other cities
have assembled here for the
WcuOA41S, G11cy 111CluOc.
Mr.. Vincent Astor and Mr..
Kermit Roosevelt, of New York;
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wiggin.
of Newport; Mr.. Kenneth
Kingsbury, of San Francisco;
Judge Frederick Kernochan,
Mr.. w. Rhinelander Stewart,
Mr.. Eugene Kahn, Mr.. James A.
Moffett, Mr.. J. Cheever Cowdin,
Mr.. Wayne johnson, Mr.. Ellis
worth Bunker, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
Rogers Winthrop, Mr.. Keith
Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank c.
Walker, Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie
Bowling, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Combs, jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
L. Chadbourne, all of New York;
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick H.
Prince, of Newport; Mr.. Ralph
w. Morrison, of San Antonio;
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Bruce. of San
Francisco, and Miss Dorothy
Schieranberg, of Greenwich,
Connecticut.
The ceremony will be followed
by a reception at Mrs. Laura
Curtis former home, known Of
ficially as the 1925 F Street
Club.
Here the various rooms will
be decorated with Easter lilies,
with ferns banking the mantles.
Mr.. Morgan and his bride
will leave later for brief
honeymoon jaunt.
They will be at home after
September 20 at the Carlton.