Ballard Wedding Celebrated with Community Cheer
Miss Jennie Dow and Mr. John Kyle were wed in a ceremony attended by local family and friends at the Dow home in Ballard.
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On the 10th the home of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Dow, corner of Second avenue and Broadway, in Ballard, was the scene of a pretty wedding, the marriage of their eldest daughter, Miss Jennie Dow and Mr. John Kyle, a trusted employee in the wholesale grocery house of Plummer & McDonald, of Seattle. The bride was neatly attired, and was attended by her sister, Miss Dow. The groom was supported by Mr. William Gardner. The bride was the recipient of many useful and costly presents, showing the esteem in which the young lady was held. After the Rev. Clark Davis performed the marriage ceremony the guests, who were the intimate friends and relatives of the contracting parties, partook of a bountiful wedding supper. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle are housekeeping at once in a neat cottage at 2029 Second street.
“Mr. and Mrs. Kyle are housekeeping at once in a neat cottage at 2029 Second street.”
Before Ballard was incorporated into Seattle, it functioned as an independent town with its own social orbit. This wedding captures the domesticity and community life of Ballard's early era, when 'housekeeping at once' was a marker of status and stability.
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