The Personal Collection of Colonel Claude S. Buchanan
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Page with Wedding Newspaper Clippings for Claude S. Buchanan and Ruth Eldora Parrent
Format
Newspaper on paper.
Date
c. 1914
Location
500 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Description
This assortment of newspaper clippings from The Grand Rapids Herald, the Grand Rapids Press, the Detroit Free Press, The Manistee News Advocate, and The Daily Times News of Ann Arbor describes the story of the wedding between Claude S. Buchanan and Ruth Eldora Parrent. The story depicted in the newspaper clippings reveals that Claude and Ruth married in secret on Christmas Day. They both had the intention of keeping it secret until their graduation in 1916. However, the newlywed Ruth Buchanan told one friend out of excitement, making the information public and spreading their secret tryst akin to wildfire.
Curator
Dianelys Nunez; Elio Singer
Copyright
Sarah Miller Boye
