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- [S30] Suffolk County News, Sayville, Islip, NY, 29 November 1912, p. 1.
Suffolk County News, 29 November 1912: "To Be Married in Russia. Miss Carman, of Brookhaven, to Wed American Consol at Batoum.
It has just become known that Miss Catherine E. Carman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Carman of Brookhaven, will sail for Russia on Saturday and upon her arrival in St. Petersburg she will be married to Leslie A. Davis, formerly a well-known young lawyer of Port Jefferson, who last March was appointed as United States Consul in Batoum. The couple will travel through Russia until January 1st, when Mr. Davis will resume his post. Miss Carman is a graduate of the Patchogue High School and the Potsdam Normal School. For the past four years she has been a teacher in a school at Plainfield, N.J. Mr. Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Davis of Port Jefferson. He is a lawyer and has spent much of his time in Europe, following his graduation from Cornell University. The fact that he visited Russia three times led to his appointment as Consul. Batoum is noted principally as a Russian naval station. It has a population of about 30,000 and is located in the South of Russia near the Turkish border. Miss Carman is a sister of Mr. Howard Carman, a resident of this village for the past year in the employ of Mr. J. H. Swezey.
- [S30] Suffolk County News, Sayville, Islip, NY, 6 Dec 1912, p. 5.
"J. Howard Carman went to New York on Saturday to see his sister, Miss Catherine E. Carman sail on board the Russian-American liner, Kursk for St. Petersburg, where she is to be married to Leslie A. Davis, of Port Jefferson, U. S. Consul at Batoum, Russia."
- [S198] Echo, Port Jefferson, NY,,, 11 Jan 1913, p. 1.
United States Consul Weds
Leslie Ammerton Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert C. Davis of this place, and Miss Catherine Elliot Carman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Carman, of Brookhaven, were united in marriage in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 18. The above is of more than passing interest, and is interwoven with history, romance and diplomatic surroundings. The contracting parties had been intimately acquainted since childhood, as had their parents before them. The ceremony occurred at the home of United States Ambassador Hon. Chas. Guild, the Rev. Wm. Orr, pastor of the British American Congregational church at St. Petersburg, officiating. The bride, who was attired in a travelling costume of brown velvet and carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley, was given away by Ambassador Guild, after which an elaborate wedding breakfast was tendered by Mrs. Guild. The rooms were handsomely decorated with bridal roses and an unique feature was the cutting by the bride of a real Russian wedding cake made by the Embassy chef. Among the guests present were: Ambassador and Mrs. Guild, Rev. and Mrs. Wm Orr, S. Connors, U.S. Consul at St. Petersburg, three secretaries of the American Embassy, Mrs. F. J. Corse and sister, Miss Potter.
Mr. Davis, who several years ago spent considerable time in Russia, was appointed last Spring as United States Consul to Batoum. He is a graduate of Cornell University, and Columbia Law School of Washington, D.C., and spent some time in the law office of the Hon. Townsend Scudder in New York City and is highly fitted for the office which he holds.
The bride is a graduate of Patchogue High School and Potsdam Normal School. She sailed from New York on the Russian line steamer Kursk, on Nov. 30, for Labau, on the western coast of Russia [now Latvia], where Mr. Davis met her on arrival and from which port they at once proceeded to St. Petersburg.
After a short stay in St. Petersburg the couple left for Batoum, a port on the Black Sea, about seven hundred miles east of Constantinople, and the shipping port for the Russian oil fields and has a population of thirty thousand.
Our thanks to Marie Schudde for drawing our attention to this article. (6 Nov. 2010)
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