Ocean County , NJ History

N J Courier, June 2,1909: "A pretty home wedding occurred Wednesday in East Fourth Street, when Miss Mary Ethel Johnson, daughter of Mr and Mrs J C Johnson, became the wife of Mr Frank Edgar Baldwin, of Red Bank, the ceremony occurring at one o'clock and performed by the Rev C P Butler of the Presbyterian Church. The bride was gowned in a charming princess dress of white batiste with lace and embroidery and carried white roses. Her going away gown was of London Smoke broadcloth and she wore a panama hat with lilacs. The young couple received many pretty gifts. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served to the company and the bride and groom left amid showers of rice and confetti to their home in Atlantic Highlands which is in readiness for them. The wedding company numbered about twenty six and included the relatives and a few friends from Lakewood, the grooms mother, sister and brothers, Mrs G W Baldwin, Miss Estelle Baldwin and Messrs George B and William

from New Jersey Courier 2 Jun 1909 A pretty home wedding occurred Wednesday in East Fourth Street, when Miss Mary Ethel Johnson, daughter of Mr and Mrs J C Johnson, became the wife of Mr Frank Edgar Baldwin, of Red Bank, the ceremony occurring at one o'clock and performed by the Rev C P Butler of the Presbyterian Church. The bride was gowned in a charming princess dress of white batiste with lace and embroidery and carried white roses. Her going away gown was of London Smoke broadcloth and she wore a panama hat with lilacs. The young couple received many pretty gifts. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served to the company and the bride and groom left amid showers of rice and confetti to their home in Atlantic Highlands which is in readiness for them. The wedding company numbered about twenty six and included the relatives and a few friends from Lakewood, the grooms mother, sister and brothers, Mrs G W Baldwin, Miss Estelle Baldwin and Messrs George B and Will