1868
Wedding gown
Gown 1with Marie sleeves, scooped neckline, fitted bodice button front with separate belt and bow decoration. Skirt front has tiers of net (restored)and horizontal bands, skirt back flows into full train back; bustle-line trim. Generally good condition except for piece of back bodice which has been cut out. Wedding gown and accessories of Mary Darcy, daughter of Henry Darcy, president of Penn. R.R. ,for her marriage to Edmund D. Halsey in 1868.
Edmund Drake Halsey was born in Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey on September 11, 1840, youngest of 7. Mother, Sarah Jackson, granddaughter of Colonel Stephen Jackson, friend of General George Washington & founder of Rockaway iron mine& foundry. Father, Samuel Halsey, a New York state lawyer & politi- cian until moving to Rockaway to be partner in the family iron mining business, Rockaway Manufacturing Company.Edmund graduated from Princeton in 1860, practiced law for 2 years in Morristown, New Jersey before enlisting in Union Army. He rose to the rank of lieutenant & served the army until January 1865, when he returned to his law practice working primarily with large industrial companies. Married Mary Darcy of Newark, New Jersey. They had seven children, though only one, Cornelia, lived long enough to have children of her own. Edmund Drake Halsey died October 17, 1896 in Rockaway and is buried in that town's Presbyterian Church cemetery.
Provenance:
Chambers, Dean Helen Petticoat Hill, Phoenixville, CT. Born 2/21/1916
Construction Label:
Dressmaker made
1970C 1868.12
Gown 1with Marie sleeves, scooped neckline, fitted bodice button front with separate belt and bow decoration. Skirt front has tiers of net (restored)and horizontal bands, skirt back flows into full train back; bustle-line trim. Generally good condition except for piece of back bodice which has been cut out. Wedding gown and accessories of Mary Darcy, daughter of Henry Darcy, president of Penn. R.R. ,for her marriage to Edmund D. Halsey in 1868.
Edmund Drake Halsey was born in Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey on September 11, 1840, youngest of 7. Mother, Sarah Jackson, granddaughter of Colonel Stephen Jackson, friend of General George Washington & founder of Rockaway iron mine& foundry. Father, Samuel Halsey, a New York state lawyer & politi- cian until moving to Rockaway to be partner in the family iron mining business, Rockaway Manufacturing Company.Edmund graduated from Princeton in 1860, practiced law for 2 years in Morristown, New Jersey before enlisting in Union Army. He rose to the rank of lieutenant & served the army until January 1865, when he returned to his law practice working primarily with large industrial companies. Married Mary Darcy of Newark, New Jersey. They had seven children, though only one, Cornelia, lived long enough to have children of her own. Edmund Drake Halsey died October 17, 1896 in Rockaway and is buried in that town's Presbyterian Church cemetery.
Provenance:
Chambers, Dean Helen Petticoat Hill, Phoenixville, CT. Born 2/21/1916
Construction Label:
Dressmaker made
1970C 1868.12