Wedding Announcements

Baggageman Smiled; Won Society Bride  
Sewickley Girl Lost Heart to Handsome Railroader as His Train Sped by Her Summer Home

 

Special to the Inquirer.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 18.--Miss Margaret Shannon, a society girl of Sewickley, whose grandfather, Robert Shannan, was a pioneer of the Ohio Valley, and who is the daughter of Robert Robert Shannon, a Pittsburg business man, to-day announced to her friends that on December 10 she had been married to Harold E. Hannibal, at a little parsonage at Baden.

 

Hannibal is a baggagemaster on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. Miss Shannon, who was a debutante this season, saw him daily as the train dashed past the Shannon summer home. She told her friends she admired the handome baggagemaster, became acquainted and fell in love with him.

 

Her parents gave the couple their blessing and they are now livinig with Mr. and Mrs. Shannon. [Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 1908 - Transcribed by C. Anthony]

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