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- Elmira Telegram, N.Y., Sunday, June 10, 1894
A.B. Cornell Marries
The Ex-Governor Greatly Surprised All His Friends
He Did It Most Cleverly
He Gives a Charming Dinner and Surprises His Guests by the Romantic Act of Matrimony ? The Wedding Ceremony Takes Place at the House of Dr. Egbert Guernsey ? The Bride is a Daughter of the Late George Covert, of Ithaca.
(Special to the Telegram)
Ithaca, N.Y., - June 9 ? A pleasant surprise was given last night to some guests at a dinner at the Hotel Bristol, in New York, by ex-governor Alonzo B. Cornell. Everybody who knows the ex-governor thoroughly cannot help having a warm corner in the heart for him. He has passed through man y tribulations, but his friends have always prove steadfast. His kindness and geniality have drawn around him many friends, and his services as governor of the state warmed many years with patriotic regard for him when he departed from the executive chair. The son of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell university of this beautiful city of Ithaca, he possesses many of the philanthropic qualities of his father. Though ex-Governor Cornell has remained in private life for many years, he has still retained a strong hold upon the friendships of those who knew him in his more active career. Few public men have retired from elective positions with the respect which followed him when he have way to his successor. Brief notices were issued by him a few days ago to the effect that he was to depart for Europe today on the Umbria, and desired to meet some of his friends at a farewell dinner last night at the Hotel Bristol. His main purpose in going abroad is to further the interests of a company with which he is identified. But there was another motive in the note of invitation which was carefully concealed. The persons to whom invitation were hurriedly sent were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sage, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Eckert, Colonel A.D> Shaw, General Louis Fitzgerald, General Daniel Butterfield, Chauncey M. Depew, William Rhinelander Stewart, Charles Emory Smith, Horace Russell, Colonel James M. Varnum, a former member of the governor?s staff; Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Halsey, Mr. and Mrs. A.B Darling, Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Ezra Cornell, Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Watson Cornell, Colonel Charles S. Francis, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Cochrane, Seth Low, Colonel and Mrs. Henry M. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Colgate, Mr. and Mrs. O.S. Wood, President Schurmann, of Cornell university; Franklin C. Cornell, C.W. Tyson, General and Mrs. Frederick R> Halsey, Mr. and Mrs. J. Collin Forbes, Henry H. Weibert, Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Bright, General Langdon, one of the 306, of Elmira, N.Y., and General and Mrs. Frederick Townsend, General and Mrs. S. Oliver, Judge Amasa J. Parker, Colonel Mann, Troy; General and Mrs. A.C. Barnes, of Brooklyn; General and Mrs. Stewart L. Woodford, Edwin Gould, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish, Colones R. C. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Corning, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Balious, William L. Bostwick and a few others. The dinner had not far advanced when Governor Cornell announced that the party would probably at the close, have an opportunity of taking part in a wedding ceremony. One of the ladies present was Esther Elizabeth, daughter of the late George Covert, of Ithaca, and she was destined to become the wife of Governor Cornell shortly after 9 o?clock. It was a surprise party of the good, old-fashioned sort. All present were eager to offer their congratulations to the happy couple. Dr. Egbert Guernsey?s home is at No. 528 Fifth avenue, in New York city, only a block and a half from the Hotel Bristol, and when the dinner was ended the party present walked up the avenue, and entering the doctor?s parlor found the Rev. Dr. J.W. Brown, of St. Thomas?s Protestant Episcopal church, awaiting their arrival. Governor Cornell and his bride advanced; a brief ceremony followed, then all joined in warm congratulations to both. A disarrangement of plans will prevent Governor Cornell from sailing today, as he had intended to do, and he will probably go by a steamer some time next week. Governor Cornell?s services to the state are well remembered, and his career of usefulness has been so conspicuous that reference to them is hardly necessary.
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