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White House Wedding of Eleanor Wilson and McAdoo
Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson wed William Gibbs McAdoo in the White House Blue Room at 6 pm. The ceremony followed a simple Presbyterian service attended by family and a small group of officials. The reception and supper followed in the State Dining Room with extensive floral decor and a Marine band program. The couple planned a brief honeymoon with McAdoo returning to federal duties in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Eleanor Randolph Wilson
United States
Woodrow Wilson
White House
William Gibbs McAdoo
Treasury
Presbyterian Church
Sylvester Beach
Princeton
N. J
Blue Room
Cherry
Peach
Apple
Marine Band Orchestra
William H. Sandeman
Nancy Lane
Franklin K. Lane
McAdoo
Cary T. Grayson
U.S. N
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
National
Trousseau
Fifth Avenue Modistes
Miss Wilson
Eleanor Wilson
Leopin
Frances Folsom
Grover Cleveland
Jessie Wilson
Francis B. Sayre
White Houses
Nellie Grant
Algernon C. F. Sartoris