Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1914

Famous Weddings

Jan 14 Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke

Apr 20 Poet and critic Ezra Pound (28) weds Dorothy Shakespear

May 7 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in The White House

Jun 24 MLB greatest pitcher Walter Johnson (26) weds Hazel Lee Roberts in Northwest, Washington, D.C., until her death in 1930

Jul 13 British poet and novelist D. H. Lawrence (28) weds Frieda Weekley (34) after obtaining Frieda's divorce from her 1st husband

Jul 21 Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (23) marries Wilhelm Frederick Wendt de Kerlor (30) in London

Jul 29 Mountain climber George Mallory (28) weds Ruth Dixon Turner

Oct 7 Businessman Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (26) weds John F. Fitzgerald's daughter, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (24)

Oct 17 American baseball legend Babe Ruth (19) weds waitress Helen Woodford (17) at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Ellicott City, Maryland

Dec 24 Agatha Miller (later best selling detective author) marries aviator Archibald Christie