title:
Wedding of Margaret Colgate and James Dennis
subject:
Dennis, Margaret, 1892-1946
subject:
Dennis, James, 1887-
subject:
Ben Venue
subject:
Cleveland, Susan C. (Susan Colgate), 1891-1967
subject:
Colgate, Evelyn, 1906-1928
subject:
Colgate, Hope, 1868-1955
subject:
Colgate, James C. (James Colby), 1863-1944
subject:
Weddings
description:
A sepia-toned photograph of the wedding party of Margaret West Colgate and James Shepard Dennis. They were married at Ben Venue in Bennington VT. This portrait shows twelve female attendants and twelve male attendants. Identified people are Susan E. Colgate, 4th from left, seated; the bride and groom at the center; Evelyn Colgate standing next to Margaret; Hope C. Colgate standing in the background on the far right; James C. Colgate under the arch in the rear of the photograph. Unidentified members of the wedding party in this photograph include bridesmaids: Florence Colgate (cousin); Elizabeth Stillman Kendall, Katharine Patteson, Louise Kellogg, Dorothy Freeman, and Dorothy Perkins, all of New York; Dorothy Lasell of Troy; Estelle Farrel of Ansonia, CT; and Dorothy Dennis (sister of the groom) of Morristown, NJ. Best man was Hyatt Wight of Baltimore, and ushers were George W. Perkins, Jr., Ferdinand L. Mayer, Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, James Cursity Bell, Jr., Matthew Gault, William Scott Pyle, Henry A. Colgate (cousin of the bride), Oscar Ross Ewing, Samuel Reed of Pittsburgh, James B. Wailer, Jr. of Chicago, and Frederick Wayne of Indianapolis.
creator:
Conklin, Philip
source:
Ben Venue Album (temporary loan from Anthony Woeltz), Colby Colgate Cleveland Photographic Materials, MS2001.086
publisher:
Colby-Sawyer College, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives
date:
1915 September 1
relation:
Is part of colbyColgateClevelandPhotos_benVenue_ _000
rights:
Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives.
format:
image/jpeg
type:
Image
identifier:
colbyColgateClevelandPhotos_benVenueAlbum_ _012