Kids & Family
Sept. 23, 1929: Coolidge-Trumbull Wedding
September 24, 1929. From Hartford Courant and St. Petersburg Times
This day marks the joyous union of John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull in marriage, September 23, 1929.
On September 23, 1929, Florence and John married in Plainville, Connecticut. “As the couple gave their vows in a simple, seven minute ceremony, Professor William C. Hammond, of Mount Holyoke College, the bride’s alma mater, softly played ‘White’s Air,’ the college vesper song, as an obligato on the organ.” More than a thousand mums were transported by refrigerated rail car from California to be used in the wedding. Thousands lined the streets to “view the wedding which began as a charming boy and girl romance and soon became an event of nation-wide interest second only in social importance this year to the Lindbergh-Morrow wedding last May.”
After they first married, the couple lived for a time in Westville, Connecticut. John had taken a job with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. In 1933, their first child, Cynthia, was born. Her initials, “C.C,” mirrored the President’s initials. Daughter Lydia was born in 1939. At some point during John’s 13-year-long employment with the railroad, the Coolidges moved to Orange Ct.