Monday, Jun. 27, 1927
Engaged. Louise Hunter, famed soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan; to Henry Haven Windsor Jr., editor and publisher of Popular Mechanics magazine.
Married. Gertrude Dewit Norris, daughter of U. S. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska; to one Gordon B. Rath; near Waupaca, Wis.
Married. Marguerite Montgomery Jay, direct descendant of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; to the Rev. William Dudley Foulke Hughes; in Manhattan.
Married. James Jeremiah Wadsworth, son of onetime (1915-27) U. S. Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York; to Harty Griggs Tilton; in Manhattan.
Married. Roy Edward Larsen, Circulation Manager of TIME, the weekly newsmagazine; to Miss Margaret Zerbe; in Cleveland.
Married. John Cyril Maude, son of famed actor Cyril Maude; to Miss Rosamond Murray; in London.
Divorced. Harry Hays Morgan; by Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Trezvant Morgan; in Paris. They are the parents of the famed "Morgan twins," Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (widow of Reginald C. Vanderbilt) and Lady Thelma Morgan Converse Furness of London. Mrs. Morgan is the daughter of the late General Judson Kilpatrick, thrice Ambassador to Chile. Mr. Morgan, after 40 years in the U. S. diplomatic service, retired as U. S. Consul General at Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father, the late Philip Hickey Morgan, was onetime U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his son, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., is now in the U. S. diplomatic service.
Died. Clarence Coles Phillips, 45, famed artist of magazine covers near New Rochelle, N. Y.: of kidney trouble.
Died. John Teele Pratt, 53, Standard Oil financier; suddenly of heart disease; in his Broadway office, Manhattan. Thirty-six years ago his father, Charles Pratt, died of heart disease in offices at the same address. Mrs. Ruth S. Pratt, widow of John Teele Pratt, is the first and only woman to function as a New York City alderman.
Died. John R. Thompson, 62, originator of the "one-arm chair" restaurants; of heart disease; at Lake Forest, Ill. He started with a nickel coffee stall during the Chicago World's Fair (1893); lately served 53,000,000 meals annually throughout the U. S.* Died. Guy Eastman Tripp, 62, since 1912 Chairman of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; in Manhattan; from complications following an intestinal operation. He recently attracted widespread interest by his plan for the electrification of the entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome, 68, famed author and humorist; at Northampton, England; of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was progressively, from 14 years on, office clerk, actor, author, editor; wrote Three Men in a Boat, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Wood Barrow Farm, etc. Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Hope, Richard le Gallienne, who liked him, wrote for his periodicals.
Died. Dr. A. H. Freeland Barbour, 71, famed gynecologist, onetime president of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh; in Edinburgh.
Died. James Clarkson Gillmore, 72, last Commodore in the U. S. Navy (rank became extinct in 1899); in Washington, D. C. When Filipinos took him prisoner during the Spanish-American War he was lined up to be shot, refused to have his hands tied, said: "It is not a fit way for an officer and gentleman to die." His captors debated, were interrupted by a rescue party, finally released him.
Died. Judge James Hay Reed, 73, father of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania; in Pittsburgh. Judge Reed was an organizer of the U. S. Steel Corp.; was a onetime law partner of the late Philander Chase Knox (U. S. Secretary of State under President Taft and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania).
*In Chicago, Evanston, New York, Boston, St. Louis, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, New Orleans, Dallas, Milwaukee, Providence, Albany, Buffalo, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, Pittsburgh, Erie, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, East St. Louis, Quincy, Peoria, Springfield, Danville, Bloomington, Aurora.