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Show ONE OF THE YOUNC VANDERBILTS. Tli. Daughter of r.lllntt Shepard Married to Young Sehfflln. Niw York. Feb. 5. Speeial to The Times, 'The marriage of Miss Louisa Shepard. daughter of Col. Elliott F. Shepard of the Mail and Express to William J. Soheffelin, which was celebrated cele-brated today at the Fifth avenue Presbyterian Pres-byterian church was, as had been anticipated, anti-cipated, a brilliant event. After the ceremony a breakfast was served at the residence of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. W. II. Vanderbilt. The bride was attired in a dress of cream satin dueh-esse, dueh-esse, the skirt in front being tilled with embroidered chiffon and fringed with orango blossoms; and tho long train of brocade was suspended from the shoulders; should-ers; her veil was fastened by a diamond crescent and she, wore a diamond bracelet. brace-let. The bride is the first of tho younger generation of tho Vanderbilt family to wed. She is a tall handsome girl, a lover of out-door sports, "a splendid horsewoman and a good hand at the oar. She has a private fortune of her own, the nucleus of which was willed her by her grandfather, tho late W. II. Vanderbilt. I ike her lather and mother she is of a religions turn of mind, ami was for a long time a leather in St. liartholomew'.s Sunday school. The groom is a well known society man. He was educated abroad, principally prin-cipally in Heidelbiirg, and is a member of his father's drug firm, lie has given much study to chemicals and is rated very high in his line by experts. He is twenty-live years of age. just live years older than his wife, lie is a grandson of John Jay. |