FORGOT TO GET A LICENSE. After 30-Year Wooing Man Kept Bride Waiting in Church. DOBBS FERRY, N.Y., Aug. 6 - After a courting lasting 30 years, the wedding of a couple set here for 4:30 o'clock yesterday was an hour late because the bridegroom forgot to get his marriage license. The bride was Miss Margaret McConnell, daughter of a former editor of The Hastings News, and the bridegroom, Nathan B. Hallett, a retired druggist, formerly of Dobbs Ferry. The ceremony, after the necessary license had been secured, was performed in the Dobbs Ferry Presbyterian Church by the Rev. R. M. Berkley. Mr. Hallett is now a resident of Cameron, N.Y., Mrs. Hallett met her husband 30 years ago, while he was studying medicine in New York. The courtship has continued ever since. Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) August 6, 1910; page 4.
MARRIED: At
the M. E. parsonage Apr. 2, 1882, by Rev. C. G. Lowell, Mr. Geo. Groff and Miss Nettie J.
Hepinstall, both of Canisteo. Canisteo Times (Canisteo,
NY) April 6, 1882.
JASPER: Geo. A.
Hunter and Miss Kittie Wright were married at the M. E.
parsonage on the 11th, by Rev. J. Chriswell. Canisteo Times (Canisteo,
NY).
