Engaged. Miss Esther Driver du Pont, daughter of Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, industrial chemicals, motors) of Wilmington; to one Campbell Weir of Wilmington.

Engaged. Miss Frances Lindon Smith, daughter of Joseph Lindon Smith, painter, and granddaughter of Major George Haven Putnam; to Raymond Otis, Chicago scion.

Married. Miss Charlotte Hanna, 21, granddaughter of the late Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna, Senator from Ohio (1897-1904), of Ravenna, Ohio; to one Richard Hume, of Washington, D. C.; on two occasions, first in Washington, D. C., later in Manhattan.

Married. Miss Madeleine Couzens, eldest daughter of Senator from Michigan James Couzens; to one William Romer Yaw of Detroit; at Pontiac, Mich.

Married. Mrs. Walter Camp Jr., to Carlos French Stoddard, investment broker, of New Haven, Conn.; in New haven.

Married. The youngest son of Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Paul Thompson Sunday; to Mrs. Elene Herbert, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at Tijuana, Mexico, to escape California's three-day marriage license law.

Married. Dr. Dean DeWitt Lewis, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, chief surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.; to Miss Norene Kinney, of East Chicago, Ind.; in Girard, Ohio.

Married. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, 51, onetime Collector of Internal Revenue, massive center in '99 for the Princeton football eleven, of Manhattan; and Mrs. Norma Jones Steelsmith, 37, school teacher, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; in Manhattan.

Married. Miss Parmelia Pryor of Greenwich, Conn., to Joseph Verner Reed of Denver, wealthy worker on the Chattanooga Times; in Greenwich, Conn.

Married. Mrs. Margaret Shaw Billings, widow of Albert M. Billings, son of Cornelius K. G. Billings of Manhattan and Santa Barbara, to Robert de Vecchi, California fruitman; in Manhattan.

Married. Miss Nanine H. Ulman, of Baltimore; to Count Alfred de Niezychowski, heir to many Polish acres, famed German sea raider; in Baltimore.

Elected. John Pierpont Morgan, to be chairman of board the United States Steel Corporation (see p. 31).

Elected. Philip D. Wagoner, president of Elliott-Fisher Co., to be president & general manager of the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. recently amalgamated (TiME, Dec. 5). His board of directors includes exceptionally potent businessmen & financiers, such as Morgan B. Brainard, Charles Hayden, Philip Lehman, Henry Morgenthau, Morgan Joseph O'Brien, James Howell Post and Albert Henry Wiggin.

Elected. John T. Underwood, president of Underwood Typewriter Co., to be chairman of the board of directors of Underwood Elliott Fisher Co. (see above).

Elected. John S. Keefe, 64, hitherto vice president & director, for 27 years, to be president of the American Steel & Wire Co.; to succeed the late William Pendelton Palmer.

Elected. Charles Eugene Johnston, 46, hitherto vice president and general manager, to be president of the Kansas City Southern Railway; to succeed Job Adolphus Edson, president for 22 of his 60 years in railroading. Leonor Dresnel Loree seeks to unite the K. C. S. R. with the St. Louis-Southwestern and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas as a southwestern railroad system (TIME, May 30).

Elected. Harold Stanley, 42, president of the Guaranty Co., Manhattan, to be a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, Morgan, Grenfell & Co. of London and Morgan & Cie. of Paris (see p. 31).

Elected. Jacob Bertha Levison, president of Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., founder of the San Francisco Symphony Society; to be president of the Musical Association of San Francisco (sponsors of the orchestra).

Died. B. C. Edgar, 50, vice president and general manager of the Tennessee Electric Power Co., president of the Nashville Light & Power Co.; in Chattanooga.

Died. Gavin McNab, 58, onetime hotel clerk, then lawyer, prominent Democratic leader of California, legal adviser to Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, Jack Dempsey, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, Mary Pickford; suddenly, in San Francisco.

Died. Count Teofilo Rossi Di Montelera, 67, onetime Italian Minister of State, head of famed firm of Martini & Rossi, vermouth manufacturers ; at Turin.

Died. Emily Stevens, 45, famed actress, cousin of Mrs. Fiske; in Manhattan; of pneumonia complicated with an overdose of nerve sedative. Onetime star of The Unchastened Woman, Fata Morgana, etc., etc.

Died. Charles M. Kittle, 47, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; in Chicago. He worked his way from section gang water boy to senior vice president of Illinois Central Railroad from which he resigned to rule the great mail order company.

Died. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, 80, author (The Last of the Heretics, an autobiography), lecturer, onetime Episcopalian clergyman, convicted of heresy in 1906 for denial of the doctrine of the virgin birth and the divinity of Jesus; in Rochester, N. Y.