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08 May 2011

Marriage of Josephine Osborn & Jay Coogan

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Wedding Notice 
(extracted from "New York Times" [NY], 30 SEP 1922, PAGE 9):

JOSEPHINE OSBORN
WEDS JAY COOGAN

Daughter of Prof. and Mrs. H.
Fairfield Osborn Married by 
Auxiliary Bishop Dunn

QUIET HOME CEREMONY

Bridegroom, Son of Late Borough
President, Served as a Lieu-
tenant in British Army.

The marriage of Miss Josephine Osborn, daughter of Professor and 
Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn, and Jay Coogan, eldest son of Mrs. James 
Jay Coogan and the late Mr. Coogan, first Borough President of 
Manhattan after consolidation, was solemnized yesterday afternoon 
at 4 o'clock at the residence of the bride's parents, 998 Fifth 
Avenue.

Their engagement was announced only the first of this week, and 
the date of the wedding was advanced because of the expected 
departure of Professor and Mrs. Osborn for China.

It was a quiet home wedding, the guests numbering forty.  The 
ceremony was performed by Bishop John J. Dunn, Auxiliary Bishop 
of New York.

The bride, in white satin and old lace, an heirloom of the family, 
was attended by her young niece, Nathalie Osborn, as flower girl.  
Gardiner Coogan acted as best man for his brother.

After their honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Coogan will reside at 1,140 
Fifth Avenue.

Mr. Coogan was educated at Eaton College, England, and Harvard, 
and later took his degree in law at the New York University Law 
School.  During the war he served as a lieutenant in the British 
Army, and after the war he was detailed to the British Legation 
at Berne, Switzerland.  The bride's father is one of the most 
eminent of American paleontologists and is head of the American 
Museum of Natural History.

Among those at the wedding were Mrs. James J. Coogan, mother of 
the bridegroom; W. Gordon Coogan, his brother, and Mrs. Coogan; 
Miss Jessie Coogan, his sister; Mr. and Mrs. William Church 
Osborn, Mr. and Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn Jr., Mr. and Mrs. 
Frederick H. Osborn, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Osborn, Mr. and Mrs. 
Vanderbilt Webb, Mrs. Ralph Sanger, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Satterlee, 
Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. George Whitney and Charles Hayden.

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Wedding Notice 
(extracted from "Boston Globe" [NY], 01 OCT 1922, PAGE "59"):

[...]

Mr. Jay Coogan, eldest son of the late James J. Coogan and well
known in Newport Summer colony, was married Friday to Miss 
Josephine Osborne, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Henry Fairfield
Osborne of 998 5th av, New York, the ceremony taking place in
the bride's home at noon. Mr. Coogan was educated at Eton College,
England, and at Harvard, and also took a degree at law in New York
University.  During the World War he served with the Household
Cavalry, Royal Horse Guards of the British Army, from 1915 to 1919
and rose to the rank of major, being awarded the D.S.C. order and
the Military Cross.  Miss Osborne has travelled extensively with
her father, and was about to accompany him to China when the
engagement was announced.

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