Cary 50th Wedding Anniversary 1905

CARY, DANIELS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/5/2019 at 12:31:12

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer May 5, 1905, FP, C6

Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Cary’s Wedding Anniversary.
Yesterday afternoon and evening, Tuesday, April 25th, three hundred of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Cary, met at the home of their daughter, Mrs. N. S. Craig, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary (Golden wedding) of Father Cary and wife. Three receptions were given one from three to six in the afternoon, one from six-thirty to eight in the evening and the other from eight to ten in the evening.
As the guests arrived at the door, they were served with lemonade and puffed rice and after disposing of their wraps were introduced to S. L. Cary and bride who received many congratulations. Later, ice cream and cake were served and the balance of the time spent in social chat.
The home was beautifully decorated, “50th Anniversary 1855-1905” in letters of gold; bamboo, variegated box, camphor tree limbs, ferns, ribbon grass, with golden roses led in decorations. A golden bell of bunting and ribbons hung over the bride and groom. A feature of one room was a center table covered with Marchiel Neil and other yellow roses, all covered with gold and white tulle stretching from table corners to center point over table.
“No presents” was printed on the letters of invitation but this was utterly disregarded and a cane with head of gold, engraved “S. L. Cary, April 25, 1905 – 1855” and many other golden reminders were presented by good friends and neighbors. Also a silver set, lined with gold, at the hands of loving children reminded Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Cary of the twenty-fifth anniversary passed before.
S. L. Cary, founder of Jennings, is truly known as the Father of Jennings.
Coming to Louisiana alone, he now has his three children, all married and with families, settled at Jennings just across Cary and Academy Avenues and are close neighbors of each other.
He was born in Boston, Erie County, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1827. Was teaching at fourteen, at sixteen was clerking in a wholesale and retail drygoods store in Buffalo, N. Y., then a small city on the Indian Reservation at the foot of Lake Erie. At twenty-five he moved to Freeport, Ill. In 1855 was married to Clara J. Daniels of Fort Dearborn, Mich. Moved to Howard County, Iowa, in 1856; moved to Jennings, La , in March 1883, as agent of the Southern Pacific in whose employ he has been ever since.
Found the Gulf Coast country from Lafayette to Houston an agricultural wilderness and conceived the idea of bringing northern settlers to occupy this territory. Was very successful and became the Northern Emigration Agent with an office in Manchester, Iowa. The early settlers were mostly from Iowa and he was made president of the Iowa colony and the gulf coast belt became the best agricultural belt in the United States. The cities numbering hundreds of people now number thousands. At Jennings where one family was found there are now over four thousand people from the Northwest, and the Southern Pacific has taken $90,000 for freight and passengers in one month. Double irrigation with the most profitable crops per acre and the discovery of oil three years ago have made this country the Mecca of northern homeseekers.—Jennings (La.) Daily Record.

Added by Joy Moore March 5, 2019

Source: Decorah Republican May 11, 1905 P3 C2

Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Cary, residents of Howard county from 1856 to 1883, and since then dwellers at Jennings, La., celebrated their golden wedding at the latter place on the 25th of April. Upwards of three hundred friends and neighbors called on them with their congratulations.