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matching shade, and with dropped shoulders and very full sleeves caught at the wrists with bands of narrow pink ribbon. She wore a veil of rose-patterned net and carried a bouquet of stephanotis and sweetheart roses. The bride was attended by her niece, and godchild, Katherine Eleanor Searle, who wore a frock of ciel blue organdy touched with pink and carried delphiniums and sweetheart roses. 

Mr. Whitney's best man was Rosecoe H. Channing Jr. of New York, with whom the bridegroom has been associated in mining interests for many years.

On Wedding Trip in West

After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was given at the home of Dr. and Mrs. George James Searle Jr., and brother and sister-in-law of the bride, in Mansfield, Ohio. Later in the afternoon the couple left for a wedding trip in the West.

The bride attended Southern College in Lakeland, Fla., and later studied art, music and languages at Columbia University in New York. she continued her musical studies with Mme. Ella Toedt of New York, and also under Marie Guy Zenatello, operatic coach. She has appeared on the concert stage and during the Summer of 1939 was a soprano with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. She has been heard also over the radio as an NBC artist and a member of the Madrigal Singers. Mrs. Whitney has specialized in oratorio and church music and lately has been soprano soloist at the North Avenue Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle, N. Y. 

Mr. Whitney is the son of the late Harry Payne Whitney, who, up to this death in 1930, had amassed one of the greatest fortunes in America. After his death his son took over his famous racing stable, one of the greatest in the world. The bridegroom's mother, the former Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, is one of the foremost sculptresses in the country and is a great-granddaughter of the Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. On the paternal side Mr. Whitney is a grandson of the late William C. Whitney, who was Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland. The late Payne Whitney was an uncle of the bridegroom, who is a nephew also of Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt.


[[cutoff of image]] Left to right, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and his bride's mother, Mrs. George J. Searle Sr. 

Yale Graduate, Class of '22

Mr. Whitney was graduated from Yale in 1922 and became associated in business with Mr. Channing, internationally known mining engineer. The two developed the now famous Flin Flon mine of the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company in Manitoba, of which Mr. Channing is now president and Mr. Whitney chairman of the board. 

Mr. Whitney recently was reelected board chairman of Pan American Airways, which he helped to found in 1927. He is president of the American Arbitration Association, a non-profit organization of leading business men of the country, and is a director of the Metropolitan Opera Association and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Mr. Whitney served as a second lieutenant in the World War.

In 1923 Mr. Whitney married in Paris, France, Miss Marie Norton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan S. Norton of New York. There are two children of that union-Harry Payne Whitney and Nancy Whitney. The couple were divorced in 1929 in Reno and subsequently Mrs. Whitney was married to W. Averell Harriman, now a United States Minister to Great Britain. Mr. Whitney married secondly Miss Gwladys Crosby Hopkins, daughter of Mrs. Stevens Heckscher of Strafford, Pa., and of the late Mark Hopkins Jr. of Boston. That marriage took place in September, 1931, at the bride's home. The couple separated early in 1940 and last month the marriage was terminate by divorce in Fort Pierce, Fla. There is a 2 year-old daughter, Gail, of that union.

Mr. Whitney is a member of the Racquet and Tennis, Meadow Brook, Turf and Field, Piping Rock, New York Yacht and River Clubs.