Evening star., 1935-06-16
)isng Families Represented in Brilliant Wedding
Many Notables See
Miss Katrina Mccormick
Wed Courtlandt Barnes
Members of Cabinet and Others High in
Capital Society Attend Ceremony
at Cathedral.

bridegroom. Mrs SimnS was In beige
crepe, made plain, with which she
wore a becoming hat of brown horse
hair lace, having a cluster of tiny
flowers at the base of the crown.
Mrs. Barnes also wore beige lowered
crepe with a brown hat and other
accessories. A Russian orchestra sta
toned on one of the terraces Of the
garden played during the reception.
Following the reception Mr.. and
Mrs. Barnes started for wedding
trip and will sail Wednesday aboard
the Manhattan for France, where they
will motor through the Summer visit
ing several of the music festivals in
Austria. Late in the season they will
meet Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Barnes for
a tour through Ireland. They will
sail for this country in August, ar
irving in New York before the first
of September.
The bride and bridegroom both
come of families long prominent in
the history of this country. The
former Miss Mccormick is the great
granddaughter of Joseph Medill,
founder OF the Chicago Tribune, and
her father, the late Senator, was also
publisher of the paper before he en-
tered the political field She is the
granddaughter of the late Senator
Mark Hanna and the late Mrs. Hanna
and Of the late Mr.. Robert S. Nc
Cormick, former United States Am
baSsador to Austria, Russia and
France, and the late Mrs. Mccormick,
whose home on Massachusetts, avenue
is now the Brazilian Embassy.
Col. Robert r. Mccormick, now
president of the Chicago Tribune, is
the uncle Of the bride, and Mr.. Joseph
Medin Patterson, publisher of the New
York Daily News, and Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, editor and publisher of the
Washington Herald. are her cousins.
Her mother who was Representative
at-large during the administration of
President Hoover, is publisher of the
Rockford Consolidated Newspapers,
Inc, which controls the Rockford
Ill) Morning Star. In 1880 Miss
Mccormick entered the newspaper
field, when she began writing a
column for the Rockford Morning
Star She worked for a time on the
Washington Herald and covered"
several Of Mrs. Roosevelt's press con-
ferenceS. She owns farm at Middle
burg, Va, where she has a number
of fine horses She attended the Fer
mata School in Aiken. S. c., and
Holton Arms School. She was pre-
sented to society at large reception
in 1880 given by her mother at the
Carlton Hotel.
Mr.. Barnes, who is a junior partner
in his fathers brokerage firm in New
York, prepared for college at Groton
and graduated from Yale Univer-
Sity in the class of 1929. He is a
gifted pianist and is a member Of the
Psi Epsilon Fraternity, of the Elihu
Club and the Racquet and Tennis
Club. He is the grandson of Mrs
Charles Tracy Barney of New York
and the late Mr.. Barney. On his
late Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Barnes of
New York and his uncles are Mr..
James w. Barney and Mr.. Ashbel H
Barney of New York. Mr.. Barnes is
the great-nephew of the late Mr.. Will
liam C. Whitney, who was Secretary Of
the Navy in the Cleveland administra-
ton. He is active in politics and is
Republican captain Of his precinct in
New York.
The out-of-town guests, in addition
to the brides uncle and aunt, Col. and
Mrs. Robert r. Mccormick, were Mr..
and Mrs. william E. Stevenson, Mr..
and Mrs. Sheldon Tilney, Mrs. Stevens
Baird, Mrs. John T. Pratt, Mrs. Ogden
L. Mills, wife OF the former Secretary
of the Treasury; Mr.. Winthrop @.
Brown, Mr. Henry S. Hooker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph E. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Ker-
NIT Roosevelt, Mr.. j. Hopkinson Smith,
Sd; Mr.. and Mrs John Parkinson, jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Moore. Mr.. and Mrs.
Barklie Mckee Henry, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Chotzinoff, Mr.. and Mrs. Full
ton Cutting, Mr.. and Mrs Reeve
Schley. Mrs. Charles James Roades,
Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe E. Borie, Mr..
and Mrs. Marowitz, Mrs. Meredith
Hare and Mr.. and Mrs. Sascha Jacob
sen of New York; the former Governor
of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Clifford Pin
chot, the former Senator and Mrs.
George Wharton Pepper of Pennsyl-
vania and Mr.. and Mrs. William Nc
MILAN of Baltimore.