Monday, Apr. 27, 1925
Engaged. Mrs. Matilda R. Dodge, widow of the late John F. Dodge, founder (with his brother Horace) of the Dodge Bros. Automobile Co. (TIME, Apr. 13, BUSINESS), to one Alfred G. Wilson, Detroit lumber man. He is a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church where she is President of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society.
Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Brandeis, daughter of Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court, to Paul Rauschenbusch, son of the late Walter Rauschenbusch, Baptist theologian and sociologist.
Engaged. Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, great-great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Frederic C. Church, Jr., of Lowell, Mass.
Engaged. Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, great-granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U. S. President, to one Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.
Engaged. Miss Frances Bainbridge Colby, daughter of Bainbridge Colby, onetime (March, 1920--March, 1921) U. S. Secretary of State, to one Robert C. Rogers, of Santa Barbara, Calif.
Married. Miss Irene S. du Pont, daughter of Irenee du Pont, Wilmington powder man, to one Ernest N. May of Boston; in Wilmington, Del.
Married. James Stillman Rockefeller, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, to Miss Nancy Carnegie, grandniece of the late Andrew Carnegie; at Dungeness, Cumberland Island, off the coast of Florida.
Died. Charles H. Ebbets, 66, President and owner of the Brooklyn National League baseball team; in Manhattan, of heart disease.
Died. Elwood Haynes, 67, automobile pioneer; in Kokomo, Ind., of influenza. On July 4, 1894, he drove his first "horseless buggy" into Kokomo at the rate of eight miles an hour. When he took it to Chicago, he was ordered to "get that contraption off the streets." His original invention is now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
Died. Godfrey Charles Isaacs, until last fall managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., brother of Rufus D. Isaacs, Earl Reading, Viceroy of India; in London, of a clot of blood on the brain.
Died. John Singer Sargent, 69, famed artist; in London, of apoplexy (see ART).