Family:Samuel Davis and Lorena Barber (1)

New York Times, 23 Jun 1897: Miss L.L. Barber Married Beneath a Canopy of Lilies She is Made Mrs. Samuel Todd Davis, Jr. Wedding at Ardsley Towers The Bride Hears the Marriage Service from the Lips of Her Grandfather and the Clergyman Who Had United Her Parents.

One of the most brilliant weddings of the season was that of Miss Lorena Langdon Barber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amzi Lorenzo Barber, who was married yesterday to Samuel Todd Davis, Jr. The marriage was solemnized at Ardsley Towers, Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, the residence of the bride's parents. The number of guests, the effective costumes of the bridal party, and the beauty of the surroundings combined to make the affair noteworthy.

Many of the guests came up on special trains, and were driven in the carriages they found awaiting them through Ardsley Park to the Towers, a square, massive building of graystone. The house was beautifully decorated. There were flowers everythwere, roses, lilies, and sweet peas predominating. The visitig guests were received in the large parlors on either side of the hall. Halfway up the main stairway is a large, square hall, from which stairs on either side lead to the floors above.

The wedding took place in that hall. The bridal party stood under a canopy of lilies and maidenhair fern, while the guests, prisoned by wide bands of white ribbon, stood around and admired them. The bride and her attendants formed in processing on the lower floor, and marched through th eline of guests to where the clergymen and the groom, with his best man, were awaiting them. The bride walked between her ather and mother, following her bridesmaides and maid of honor. The Rev. Amzi D. Barber of Oberline, Ohio, grandfather of the bride, and the Rev. Dr. J.E. Rankin, President of Howard Univesrity of Washington, who married her parents twenty-six years ago, performend the ceremony, acoording to the simple ritual of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

The ushers were Alfred Craney, Raymond Albright, Augustus Hone, Joseph Schenck, Ralston Fleming, Frederick de P. Hone, Arthur Robinson, John Kingman, William S. Teel, Jr., and T.J. Buxton. The bride wore white moire velour, with white point lace trmmings, a white tulle veil, and pearls, the gift of the bridefroom. She carried a bouquet of lilies. Her bridesmaides were her sister, Miss Bertha Langdon Barber, and Miss Hewitt, in yellow satin, with bouquets of marigolds; Miss Ruth Albright and Miss Mary Dick, in pale-green satin, with nosegays of ferns; Miss Bessie Warner and Miss Helen C. Curtis, in pale-blue satin, with blue flowers; Miss Ellen L. Langdon and Miss Marie Hewitt, in pink satin, with pink sweet peas, and Miss Hoehe and Miss Adelaide Carson, in lilack satin, carrying sweet peas. Miss Daisy I. Davis, the brdiegroom's sister, as maide of honor, wore white satin and carried a bouquet composed o the different kinds of flowers carried by the bridesmaides. The bride's little brother, Roland Barber, and Miss Winifred Davis, the brdiegroom's sister, acted as train bearers. D. Langdon Barber was best man.

There was a reception after the wedding and the wedding feast was served in a tent on the grounds. Mr and Mrs Davis, on their return from a yachting tour, will live in the Cyris Field house, in Ardsley Park.

Among the guests were the Rev. D r. Robert Collyer, Avery D. Andrews, Mr and Mrs Facher, Mr and Mrs Edwin Gould, Miss Helen Gould, Gen. and Mrs. Samuel Thomas, the Misses Lauterbach, and E. Burgess Warren.

1. ↑ A History of the City of Washington
   p. 414.

   (daughter of Amzi Lorenzo Barber listed as:) "Lorena Langdon (Mrs. Samuel T. Davis, Jr.)"