MARRIAGE: S. W. McCUEN to Jean M. S. KAUFFMAN, 1890, Lancaster County, PA

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MERRY WEDDING BELLS.
CELEBRATION OF THE KAUFFMAN-M'CUEN NUPTIALS.
The Marriage the Most Brilliant Social Event of the Season in Columbia

Columbia Correspondence.

  Wedding bells never rang more merrily than at the marriage Tuesday 
evening, in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, when Jean McClung 
Strickler Kauffman, daughter of Hon. C. S. Kauffman, and sister of Hon. 
C. C. Kauffman, was wedded to Mr. S. W. McCuen, a young merchant of Oil 
City.  The chancel, altar and window recesses were beautifully 
decorated with cut flowers, palms and other plants making the interior 
of St. Paul's a thing of beauty the luster of which was only enhanced 
by the lovely faces and charming gowns of the guests.  The ceremony was 
performed in accordance with the beautiful rites of the Episcopal 
Church.  Rev. Francis J. Clay, Moran B.D. [sic], rector of St. Paul's 
officiating.  The wedding party entered the church to the strains of 
the wedding hymn, "The Voice that Breathes O'er Eden," sung by a boy 
choir.  The users followed the choristers, separating at the foot of 
the chancel, forming two lines through which the bride with her father 
and attendants entered the chancel, where they grouped artistically.  
The bride was met at the chancel rail by the groom attended by his best 
man and given away by her father.  At the close of the service the 
bridal party retired from the church to the joyous strains of the 
Lohengrin wedding march.  The bride wore an exquisite gown of satin 
regenee-en-train, trimmed with duchess lace and diamond ornaments, the 
gift of the groom.  The veil was of tulle, fastened with pearl pins.  
The maid of honor, Miss Catharine Belleville Ely, of Trenton, N.J., 
wore a gown of white crepe.  Miss Patterson, of Westfield, N.Y., wore a 
Worth gown of white poplin, with a corsage of pink roses.  The 
bridesmaids were Miss Neil McCuen, of Oil City; Miss Rebe Schryar, of 
Milton; Miss Edith B. Kauffman, of Mechanicsburg; Miss Bell Young, of 
Baltimore, and Misses Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Anna Parry and Thomas Anna 
Welsh, of Columbia; all wearing short gowns of white crepe and carrying 
hats filled with flowers.  The best man was Mr. Charles R. Lamberton, 
of Oil City, and the ushers were Millard Schide, Harry J. Beers, Jr., 
C. T. McClintock, W. S. McCuen and E. V. Seiden, of Oil City; Martin 
Carey, Buffalo, N.Y., George W. Darr, Pittsburg, Bruner Kauffman, 
Philadelphia, John S. Wilson, Columbia.  A special feature of the 
wedding was the part played by the charming little son and daughter of 
Representative Kauffman, Helen Jean and James Lee.  Helen wore a Kate 
Greenaway gown of white India silk, and James Lee wore a sailor suite 
of white surah silk.  The little ones carried baskets of flowers from 
which they plucked the buds and strewed the path of the bridal party.
  The following prominent guests were present from a distance: Ex-
Senator James W. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Ash, of Oil City; General J. 
P. S. Gobin, of Lebanon; H. H. Houston, of Philadelphia; Miss 
Muhlenberg, J. M W. Geist and E. K. Martin, of Lancaster; Miss Tresgin, 
of St. Paul; Mrs. Elizabeth Kauffman, of Mechanicsburg; R. W. Oswald, 
of Bloomsburg; Judge and Mrs. Finletter, of Philadelphia, and Senator 
Watres, of Scranton.  After the wedding the bridal party and wedding 
guests were entertained at the house of the bride's father, on Chestnut 
street.  The bridal party were entertained in a special room which had 
been converted into a retreat of loveliness.  The hall was decorated in 
white and green, and ribbons of white with monogram ends extended from 
a centre to the plate of each of the bridal party, where a souvenir had 
also been placed.  One might almost exhaust the adjectives and not 
exaggerate the joy, beauty and loveliness marking the ringing of the 
first wedding bells of the New Year in Columbia.  The couple were the 
recipients of many elegant gifts.  The bridal party left at midnight 
for New York and points East.
  The music rendered by a score or more of choir boys was another of 
the special features of the wedding.  The anthem, "O Perfect Love" was 
an exquisite piece of harmony.  The music of the anthem was composed 
expressly for the marriage of H. R. H. Princess Louise of Wales with 
the Earl of Fife, and this is the second occasion upon which it has 
been sung in this country.  The recessional "Faithful and True We Lead 
You Forth," was exceptionally well rendered.  After the wedding 
ceremony, the choristers were entertained at the Davis restaurant, 
where an elaborate supper had been prepared by instruction of the bride 
at her expense.
  
The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Wednesday, January 8, 1890