Famous Weddings
Samuel Gompers
Jan 28 Labor union leader Samuel Gompers (17) weds co-worker Sophia Julian (16) in Brooklyn, New York
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Feb 15 Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (45) weds Anna Snitkina at Trinity Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia
John A. Macdonald
Feb 16 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (52) weds Agnes Bernard (30) at St George's Church in Hanover Square, London
Hetty Green
Jul 11 Businesswoman Hetty Green (32) weds Edward Henry Green
George Westinghouse
Aug 8 Engineer George Westinghouse (20) weds Marguerite Erskine Walker in Brooklyn, New York
- Aug 18 Cosima Liszt marries Hans von Bülow, a pupil of her father, at St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin
George Dewey
Oct 24 US Admiral George Dewey (29) weds daughter of New Hampshire's war governor Susan Goodwin
