Mount Vernon Wedding

Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, on the northern border of New York City. It is the eighth largest city in New York state. As of the 2000 census the population was at 68,321. The city is on the Bronx River and the Hutchinson River. The city is within a 15-minute drive of Manhattan and a half-hour train ride to Grand Central Terminal.

In 1850, John Stevens, a merchant tailor from New York City, set out to improve the condition of the working class in New York. Among his goals was to create a property-holding class out of rent payers. To this end he organized the Industrial Home Association No. 1 of New York. Qualifications for membership were moral character, industrious habits and the desire to promote a common purpose.