Monday, October 24, 2016

Babe Ruth married in St. Paul's Catholic Church

Located on the hill behind the 1830 B&O Railroad station in Ellicott City, the Catholic church was built in 1838.  George Herman Ruth (1895-1937) was raised in Baltimore and played his rookie year of baseball there, then was traded to Boston.  He married Mary Ellen "Helen" Woodford (1896-1929) in the Ellicott City church with only two witnesses on October 14, 1914.  They adopted a baby, Dorothy (1921-1989) purported to be Ruth's daughter with a girlfriend, they separated after he met his future wife, Helen died in a house fire in January 1929, and Ruth remarried in April.


Ruth, Helen and Dorothy

Maryland Historical Trust Inventory of Historic Properties HO-348
Ruth family photo  Library of Congress 

©2016 Patricia Bixler Reber
Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

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