Saturday, September 11, 2021

Edith Wilson, Thorndike Saville Are Wed, Sept. 11, 1921

Miss Edith Wilson Is Bride of Mr. Saville

Chapel Hill, Sept. 10—Miss Edith Stedman Wilson, daughter of Dr. Henry V. Wilson, professor of zoology in the University of North Carolina since 1891, was married here today to Thorndike Saville, son of Mr. And Mrs. Caleb Mills Saville, of Hartford, Conn., associate professor of hydraulic and sanitary engineering in the university and hydraulic engineer in the North Carolina geological and economic survey.

The marriage took place in the Chapel of the Cross, the Episcopal church of Chapel Hill. Miss Eleanora Stansbury Wilson, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, and Miss Eline von Borries of Baltimore, Md., was bridesmaid. The groom was attended by Kelsey Gilmore Reed of Lexington, Mass., his classmate at Harvard, as best man. The ushers were Henry V. Wilson Jr., Frank P. Graham of Charlotte and Wesley C. George of Mount Airy. Rev. Alfred S. Lawrence, rector of the Chapel of the Cross, performed the ceremony.

The bride is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, the class of 1916. Professor Saville was graduated from Harvard in 1914, and has graduate degrees from Harvard, Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology. Upon their return to Chapel Hill, toward the end of this month. Professor and Mrs. Saville will occupy their new residence on the Durham road, at the east end of the village.

From the Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Sept. 11, 1921

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