Famous Weddings
Thomas Eakins
Jan 19 Painter Thomas Eakins (39) weds painter and photographer Susan Macdowell (32) in a Quaker ceremony
Frederick Douglass
Jan 24 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass marries his second wife suffragist Helen Pitts
- May 1 American "Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Frederick Winslow Taylor
May 3 American mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (28) weds Louise M. Spooner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oscar Wilde
May 29 Irish writer Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd at St. James Church, Paddington, London
William Jennings Bryan
Oct 1 American politician William Jennings Bryan (24) weds writer and future suffragette Mary Elizabeth Baird (23)
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