{"id":5307,"date":"2014-03-12T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2014-03-12T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T22:02:42","slug":"the-small-pretty-wedding-of-jennie-e-grieve-schoolteacher-of-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2014\/03\/12\/the-small-pretty-wedding-of-jennie-e-grieve-schoolteacher-of-this-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small, Pretty Wedding of Jennie E. Grieve, Schoolteacher of this City"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 14, <\/sup>1901, Jennie E. \u00a0Grieve, former schoolteacher of the brand new School #11 (later renamed Taylor Elementary) married Alexander Shadbolt, the owner of a stock farm outside of Brooklyn, Iowa, in Poweshiek County.<\/p>\n

Aren\u2019t they a lovely couple?<\/p>\n

\"Shadbolt<\/a><\/p>\n

Held at the home of the bride\u2019s parents on 719 East Fourteenth Street, the wedding was a small affair, but, the Davenport Daily Leader<\/i> reported, a very pretty one.\u00a0 \u00a0There was a small dinner afterward for family and a few close friends.<\/p>\n

But a small, intimate wedding didn\u2019t mean the bride didn\u2019t wear a beautiful dress.\u00a0 Look at those gorgeous ruffles:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Shadbolt<\/a><\/p>\n

There was no veil mentioned in the newspaper account—which also lacked details about the silk gauze dress, much to our disappointment—but the bride did have her photograph taken with her glasses on, as befits a former schoolteacher.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re barely visible in the image, but they\u2019re there!<\/p>\n

\"Shadbolt<\/a><\/p>\n

The bride had resigned her teaching position a month before her wedding—teachers were not allowed to be married in the Davenport School System at that time—and the couple left a week after the wedding to live in Brooklyn, Iowa.<\/p>\n

___________<\/p>\n

Sources Used:<\/p>\n

\u201cShadbolt-Grieve.\u201d Davenport Daily Leader<\/i>, March 17, 1901, p.9<\/p>\n

The old and the new!! : elementary schools in use prior to 1940 and those after the new ones opened in the fall of 1940<\/em>\u00a0 [Davenport, Iowa : Davenport Schools Museum, 199-?]<\/p>\n

\u00a0Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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