The New York Times, 13 January 1900
TO BE MR. ISMAY'S BRIDE
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Miss Constance Schieffelin Engaged to Sister's Brother-in-Law
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War Hastens the Announcement and the Wedding to Come Before Seas Part
Them
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The cable brings the news of a wedding, to be celebrated in Liverpool
to-day, which is a veritable romance. The bridegroom is to be Mr. C. B.
Ismay, a son of the late Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star
Line, and the bride is to be Miss Constance Schieffelin of this city.
Miss Schieffelin is a daughter of Mr. George Schieffelin. Her mother
was Miss Delaplaine, and she is niece of Mrs. James Hude Beeckman, and
is related to many prominent New York families.
Miss Schieffelin's elder sister, Miss Florence Schieffelin, married some
years ago Mr. James Bruce Ismay, an elder brother of to-day's
bridegroom, and went with her husband to live on the Ismay place at
Birkenhead, near Liverpool. She has revisited her New York home several
times since her marriage and has been here in both Winter and Summer as
a guest of her parents, or of her sister, Mrs. Henry O. Trevor. Mrs.
Bruce Ismay's sisters have also visited her in Liverpool, and when on
her last visit here she asked her youngest sister, Miss Constance
Schieffelin, to return with her, neither of the young women had any
thought that they would soon be sisters-in-law, as well as sisters.
Although there have been reports that an engagement between Mr. C. B.
Ismay, the younger brother of Mr. Bruce Ismay and Miss Schieffelin might
result from the attention the young Englishman paid the New York girl,
this was laughed at by Miss Schieffelin's friends and relatives here.
But war, like love, brings strange surprises and when Mr. Ismay decided
to volunteer last week for the Transvaal war, both he and Miss
Schieffelin decided that they would first announce their engagement and
that their wedding would follow before the seas parted them.
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TO BE MR. ISMAY'S BRIDE
---
Miss Constance Schieffelin Engaged to Sister's Brother-in-Law
---
War Hastens the Announcement and the Wedding to Come Before Seas Part
Them
---
The cable brings the news of a wedding, to be celebrated in Liverpool
to-day, which is a veritable romance. The bridegroom is to be Mr. C. B.
Ismay, a son of the late Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star
Line, and the bride is to be Miss Constance Schieffelin of this city.
Miss Schieffelin is a daughter of Mr. George Schieffelin. Her mother
was Miss Delaplaine, and she is niece of Mrs. James Hude Beeckman, and
is related to many prominent New York families.
Miss Schieffelin's elder sister, Miss Florence Schieffelin, married some
years ago Mr. James Bruce Ismay, an elder brother of to-day's
bridegroom, and went with her husband to live on the Ismay place at
Birkenhead, near Liverpool. She has revisited her New York home several
times since her marriage and has been here in both Winter and Summer as
a guest of her parents, or of her sister, Mrs. Henry O. Trevor. Mrs.
Bruce Ismay's sisters have also visited her in Liverpool, and when on
her last visit here she asked her youngest sister, Miss Constance
Schieffelin, to return with her, neither of the young women had any
thought that they would soon be sisters-in-law, as well as sisters.
Although there have been reports that an engagement between Mr. C. B.
Ismay, the younger brother of Mr. Bruce Ismay and Miss Schieffelin might
result from the attention the young Englishman paid the New York girl,
this was laughed at by Miss Schieffelin's friends and relatives here.
But war, like love, brings strange surprises and when Mr. Ismay decided
to volunteer last week for the Transvaal war, both he and Miss
Schieffelin decided that they would first announce their engagement and
that their wedding would follow before the seas parted them.
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