New York Times, May 27, 1941: Danbury, Conn., May 26, The marriage of Miss Ruth Alvord Barnum, daughter of Mrs. Harry Huntington Barnum of New York, formerly of Istanbul, Turkey, and the late Professor Barnum, to John Bowen Coburn, son of the Rev. Dr. Aaron C. Coburn, headmaster of the Wooster School, Danbury, and Mrs. Coburn, took place today in the James Marshall Memorial Chapel here...Given in marriage by her brother-in-law, Ernest E. Ramsaur, Jr. of Berkeley, California, the bride had a sister, Miss Eleanor Barnum and Jane Tompkins as her attendants.