eet. He was graduated from Harvard |
|in 1913 and is a member of the Knickerbocker Club of|
|this city, and also of the Balustrol Golf Club. He |
|is a member of the firm of Best and Flom, 136 Walker|
|Street. Mr. Best is the third in direct line to bear|
|his name, being a grandson of the late George R. |
|Best, one of the most noted architects of this city.|
|The wedding will take place in the spring. |

| =WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTS= |
| |
|In the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Tuesday |
|afternoon at 3:30 will be celebrated the wedding of |
|Miss Doris Ryer, daughter of Mrs. Fletcher Ryer of |
|San Francisco, Cal., to Stanhope Wood Nixon, son of |
|Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nixon. The wedding ceremony will |
|be witnessed by a large number of relatives and |
|friends from California and several of the principal|
|Eastern cities where the families of both the bride |
|and her fiance are prominent. |
| |
|Gov. Charles S. Whitman is to act as Miss Ryer's |
|sponsor and will give her away. Miss Phyllis de |
|Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. de Young |
|of San Francisco, will be the maid of honor and the |
|bridesmaids will be the Misses Pauline Disston of |
|Philadelphia, Ray Slater of Boston, Mary Moreland of|
|Pittsburg, Elizabeth Sands of Newport, Frances Moore|
|of Washington, and Helen Flake of this city. |
| |
|Walbridge S. Taft will be the best man. The ushers |
|will be Henry S. Ladew, Patrick Calhoun, Henry |
|Rogers Benjamin, Ammi Wright Lancashire, Esmond P. |
|O'Brien and Hugh D. Cotton. |
| |
|Following the wedding ceremony there will be a |
|reception in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton. The |
|engagement of Miss Ryer and Mr. Nixon was announced |
|last autumn. The bride-to-be has passed the greater |
|part of the last two winters in New York with her |
|mother and during the summer season has been |
|identified with the colony in Newport, R. I.[38] |

[38] _New York Sun_, January 21, 1917.

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