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Havana, Orizaba, Siboney, Mexico, San Jacinto and Monterey...
...Monterey, Calif...
Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry were married in January, 1899, in the Henry house at Monterey, Calif., by Father Ramon Mestrec, a Roman Catholic missionary priest with a dispensation permitting him to perform a civil wedding ceremony for non-Catholics...
They were married in a hurry, in a civil ceremony performed by a Catholic priest who had known Miss Henry since she first went to Monterey, Calif., and rode horseback with flying pigtails. They had to hurry because Engineer Hoover was sailing again from California for his second big job, to advise the young Emperor of China about his ancestral mines and newfangled railroads...
...explain in his behalf the fact, dug up by busy nobodies, that he and Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, both Quakers, were married by a Catholic priest. The occasion, in 1899, required haste because Mr. Hoover had to sail from California next day for China. The Rev. Raymon Maria Mestries, Monterey mission priest, was no gladder than they that he had a dispensation to marry Protes- tants...