Full name is Melvin Russell Colborn.
A brief obit appeared in the Newark Evening News in Newark, NJ (where his father was living at the time):
Colborn - M. Russell Colborn of Braddock, PA, son of Dr. R.M. Colborn of Newark, died April 2, 1917 of pneumonia. Interment Fairmount Cemetery . Saturday at 2 o'clock from home of his father, 116 Heller Parkway.
An article about his wedding to Mabel Wilcox:
Colborn- Wilcox
The home of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wilcox, of 209 Summer Avenue, was the scene of a pretty wedding last night, when their daughter, Miss Mabel F. Wilcox, and Mr. M. Russell Colborn, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Colborn, were married by the Rev. James Benninger, of Plymouth, Pa.
The bride was gowned in white messaline, trimmed with duchess lace, and carried a shower bouquet of bride roses. She wore a long tulle veil, caught up with her engagement ring, and she also wore a pearl brooch, the gift of the bridegroom. Mrs. Edith Fox was maid of honor, attired, in a cream pongee, trimmed with chiny lace, and carrying pink asters, Miss Ellinora Colborn, a sister of the bridegroom, acted as flower girl, gowned in white and carrying a basket of asters.
Arthur Knies, of White Haven, Pa. was best man, and Jesse Wilcox and Foster Wilcox, brothers of the bride, acted as ushers.
The house was decorated with palms, ferns and pink asters.
After a wedding supper the couple left for a trip to Niagara Falls, Canada and Ohio. They will reside at 283 Clifton Avenue.
A brief obit appeared in the Newark Evening News in Newark, NJ (where his father was living at the time):
Colborn - M. Russell Colborn of Braddock, PA, son of Dr. R.M. Colborn of Newark, died April 2, 1917 of pneumonia. Interment Fairmount Cemetery . Saturday at 2 o'clock from home of his father, 116 Heller Parkway.
An article about his wedding to Mabel Wilcox:
Colborn- Wilcox
The home of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wilcox, of 209 Summer Avenue, was the scene of a pretty wedding last night, when their daughter, Miss Mabel F. Wilcox, and Mr. M. Russell Colborn, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Colborn, were married by the Rev. James Benninger, of Plymouth, Pa.
The bride was gowned in white messaline, trimmed with duchess lace, and carried a shower bouquet of bride roses. She wore a long tulle veil, caught up with her engagement ring, and she also wore a pearl brooch, the gift of the bridegroom. Mrs. Edith Fox was maid of honor, attired, in a cream pongee, trimmed with chiny lace, and carrying pink asters, Miss Ellinora Colborn, a sister of the bridegroom, acted as flower girl, gowned in white and carrying a basket of asters.
Arthur Knies, of White Haven, Pa. was best man, and Jesse Wilcox and Foster Wilcox, brothers of the bride, acted as ushers.
The house was decorated with palms, ferns and pink asters.
After a wedding supper the couple left for a trip to Niagara Falls, Canada and Ohio. They will reside at 283 Clifton Avenue.
Full name is Melvin Russell Colborn.
A brief obit appeared in the Newark Evening News in Newark, NJ (where his father was living at the time):
Colborn - M. Russell Colborn of Braddock, PA, son of Dr. R.M. Colborn of Newark, died April 2, 1917 of pneumonia. Interment Fairmount Cemetery . Saturday at 2 o'clock from home of his father, 116 Heller Parkway.
An article about his wedding to Mabel Wilcox:
Colborn- Wilcox
The home of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wilcox, of 209 Summer Avenue, was the scene of a pretty wedding last night, when their daughter, Miss Mabel F. Wilcox, and Mr. M. Russell Colborn, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Colborn, were married by the Rev. James Benninger, of Plymouth, Pa.
The bride was gowned in white messaline, trimmed with duchess lace, and carried a shower bouquet of bride roses. She wore a long tulle veil, caught up with her engagement ring, and she also wore a pearl brooch, the gift of the bridegroom. Mrs. Edith Fox was maid of honor, attired, in a cream pongee, trimmed with chiny lace, and carrying pink asters, Miss Ellinora Colborn, a sister of the bridegroom, acted as flower girl, gowned in white and carrying a basket of asters.
Arthur Knies, of White Haven, Pa. was best man, and Jesse Wilcox and Foster Wilcox, brothers of the bride, acted as ushers.
The house was decorated with palms, ferns and pink asters.
After a wedding supper the couple left for a trip to Niagara Falls, Canada and Ohio. They will reside at 283 Clifton Avenue.
A brief obit appeared in the Newark Evening News in Newark, NJ (where his father was living at the time):
Colborn - M. Russell Colborn of Braddock, PA, son of Dr. R.M. Colborn of Newark, died April 2, 1917 of pneumonia. Interment Fairmount Cemetery . Saturday at 2 o'clock from home of his father, 116 Heller Parkway.
An article about his wedding to Mabel Wilcox:
Colborn- Wilcox
The home of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wilcox, of 209 Summer Avenue, was the scene of a pretty wedding last night, when their daughter, Miss Mabel F. Wilcox, and Mr. M. Russell Colborn, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Colborn, were married by the Rev. James Benninger, of Plymouth, Pa.
The bride was gowned in white messaline, trimmed with duchess lace, and carried a shower bouquet of bride roses. She wore a long tulle veil, caught up with her engagement ring, and she also wore a pearl brooch, the gift of the bridegroom. Mrs. Edith Fox was maid of honor, attired, in a cream pongee, trimmed with chiny lace, and carrying pink asters, Miss Ellinora Colborn, a sister of the bridegroom, acted as flower girl, gowned in white and carrying a basket of asters.
Arthur Knies, of White Haven, Pa. was best man, and Jesse Wilcox and Foster Wilcox, brothers of the bride, acted as ushers.
The house was decorated with palms, ferns and pink asters.
After a wedding supper the couple left for a trip to Niagara Falls, Canada and Ohio. They will reside at 283 Clifton Avenue.
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