MATERN, Emma-JamesRileyWeaver-Aug1897 - Putnam

The following announcement was received in this city this morning.  Mr. and Mrs. Henry Matern announced the marriage of their daughter Emma to Professor James Riley Weaver, Monday Aug 30, 1897, Sandusky, Ohio.  At home after Sept 16, Beechcroft, Greencastle, Indiana.    ~~~transcribed by kbz

Sandusky, O – The marriage of Miss Emma Matern, Sandusky’s well known artist to Prof. James R. Weaver of DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind occurred yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Matern, 1117 Washington street.  Miss Matern has been for the past two years instructor of paining in the art school of DePauw, where for the first time she met Col. Weaver, hence the happy denouncement. The wedding was confined strictly to relatives, numbering a score or more, gathered from various localities and was complete and perfect in all its appointments. The pretty parlors were artistically decorated with plants and flowers – the yellow which is the DePauw color, prevailed everywhere.  Rev. Dr. Jones, dean of Bexly Hall of Kenyon College officiating in the absence of Rev. Mr. Butterworth of Grace Episcopal Church of this city.  After a beautiful and impressive ceremony followed a choice coalition, daintily served.  The happy couple left on the evening train for the east, followed by the good wishes of their relatives and the many admiring friends of Miss Matern who for so many years has been so dearly beloved by Sandusky’s social and art circles.  Miss Matern manifest early a marked taste and gift for art.  After a full course in the art school at Cincinnati, where she graduated, she continued assiduously and successfully her studies at the New York League and subsequently visiting Europe’s art centers.  She studied under the great masters of Berlin and Paris, winning high encomiums from her teachers and patrons as is evidence by the existence of her paintings today in many of the cultured houses in our large cities, east and west.  Miss Matern is especially strong in water colors, her work being characterized by a bold and vigorous technique, accompanied with charming delicacy of color.  Her friends confidently hope her marriage may not end nor mar her art career but that university circles and home life may only call forth loftier endeavors and more extended usefulness by means of her aesthetic culture.  Col. Weaver won his first spurs in the Civil War.  When a student at Allegheny College he enlisted in a college cavalry company and went to the front, rising rapidly through the various grades till at the end of the war he was commissioned colonel by brevete for gallant conduct.  He has had a marked career as soldier, US official and educator.  He was for many years consul at Antwerp and later consul general at Vienna.  When recalled by President Cleveland he was at once elected professor of modern languages at DePauw University and later to the chair of political science, comprising economies socially and international law, which position he now fills with eminent satisfaction to all concerned.  As Col. Weaver has fallen in love with Sandusky as a summer resort as well as with one of its choicest girls, we may confidently predict that we shall frequently in the future see and hear much of him and his popular bride.    ~~~transcribed by kbz