Mumby – Norton Marriage 1904

MUMBY, NORTON

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Date: 6/14/2021 at 19:37:58

Source: Decorah Republican July 28, 1904 Page 6

Norton-Murmby Nuptials.
A very pretty and quiet wedding occurred yesterday morning at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jay Norton, 308 East Broadway, when a few guests witnessed Rev. M. Willett as he solemnized the marriage of their second eldest daughter Geneva Mae to Captain Clifford M. Mumby of St. Paul.
The home was profusely decorated with smilax and sweet peas. In the parlor where the ceremony was performed, hung a large and beautiful bell of smilax and ferns under which another daughter was married June 29th.
The wedding march was a selection from Mendelssohn rendered by Miss Hattie Fannon promptly at nine o’clock A M., while Miss Clara Williams of Decorah and Mr. Fred O. Thomas of Cresco acted as bridesmaid and groomsman. The wedding ring was carried by Master Arnold Norton. The bride was gowned in white silk chiffon and carried a shower bouquet of white sweet peas. Miss Norton is well known in Decorah, having lived here most of her life, and has won many warm friends who will regret to learn that she is to make her future home among the Orientals in far-off China.
Captain Mumby is the eldest son of Wm. H. Mumby, .Sr., formerly of Decorah and Cresco, and is a military instructor in the Chinese Imperial Reform Army. He served in China with the allied troops during the campaign against the "boxers,” and is one of the eight survivors of that unfortunate company C, 9th U. S. Infantry, which was massacred at Bolangign, Isle de Samar, P. J., September 28, 1901
Captain and Mrs. Mumby were both born at Cresco and by this union two old and highly respected families are united (Contributed )

Source: Decorah Republican July 28, 1904 Page 2

—Capt. Mumby, the groom in a Decorah wedding reported in another column, is the son of Wm. R. Mumby, who a quarter century ago, was the job printer for A. K. Bailey & Bro., of this paper. The senior Mumby is now publishing a paper at Buford, N. D.