MARRIAGE: Clair Jones SWITZER to Elizabeth Chapman WARING, 1918, Blair County, PA

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SWITZER - WARING.

  A romance of long standing came to a culmination on Wednesday in 
Sinking valley, just beyond Tyrone, when the marriage ceremony was 
performed by Rev. Edgar R. Heckman, D.D., district superintendent of the 
Altoona district of the Central Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist 
church, that united in holy bonds Miss Elizabeth Chapman Waring and Rev. 
Clair Jones Switzer.  The ceremony was performed at the home of the 
bride's brother, Carl Waring, who is a prosperous farmer of the valley.
  These two young people went to church together in the "youth" days at 
Tyrone and were attracted to each other.  Subsequently both of them 
attended school at the Missionary institute at Nyack-on-the-Hudson, both 
fitting themselves to be missionaries.  Miss Waring did go to Porto Rico 
and afterward to Venezuela and labored in her chosen work.  Mr. Switzer 
graduated and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church of 
this district and is now located at the Broad Avenue church, Altoona.  He 
is considered one of the rising young men of the ministry.  Miss Waring 
for the last few years has resided at Denair, Cal., and came here for the 
wedding, accompanied by her mother.  She is the eldest daughter of Frank 
R. Waring and wife, who resided in Tyrone all their lives until their 
removal to California about five years ago.  Mr. Switzer was raised in 
Sinking valley and his parents still reside there.  Only the families of 
the young couple were present at the wedding.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday morning, July 25, 1918, page 3