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Wilson Daughter Weds Sayre in Quiet White House Ceremony
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, second daughter of the president, married Francis Bowes Sayre at 4:30 pm in the East Room of the White House. Rev Sylvester Beach officiated, with Margaret Woodrow Wilson as maid of honor and Dr Wilfred Grenfell as best man. The ceremony was simple, guests limited to about 400, and a lavish champagne cake followed.
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Washington
White House
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
Sylvester Beach
Princeton
N. J
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Eleanor Randolph Wilson
Adelina Mitchell Scott
William B. Scott
Marjorie Brown
Atlanta
Mr. Sayre
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Labrador Coast
Dr. Grenfell
Charles H. Hughes, Jr
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Supreme Court
Harvard Law School
Gilbert Horax
New York
President
Jessie Wilson
Wilson
Senate
House
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House of Representatives
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Marjory
Underwood
Mann
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Alice Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Sayre
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Women’s College At
Baltimore
Phi Beta Kappa
Kensingston
National Young Woman's Christian Association
Axsons
Sigma Phi
Gargoyle Society
Williams
Whitman
New York State
Martha Finlay Sayre
William Nevin
Franklin and Marshal College
Lancaster
Hugh Williamson
North Carolina
United States
Robert Nevin
Rome
Ethelbert Nevin
Francis Sayre
Anna Todd
Dolly Madison
John
Alphonse Joseph Yver Pageot
Legation
Mary Eaton
Lucien B. Polk
Emily Martin
Louis Randolph
Nellie
General Grant
Algernon C. F Sartoris
Emily Platt
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Gen. Russell Hastings
Cleveland
Frances Folsom
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