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GOV. HUBBARD's DAUGHTER.
She MdrTteS He: Fathers CodcInsan, and
1fter FO"r Years Dicorces Him.
Hartford (Conn ! To4+ar

M
otter FOar Years Divorces Him
Hartford, (Conn } Letter.
The sequel to the elopement of Miss
Nellie Hubbard, the youngest daughter of
Ex-Gov. Hubbard, and her marriage to her
fathers coachman, Frederick Shepard. four
years ago, has just been made known to.
her friends here, who learned for the first.
time to-day that Mrs. Shepard had secured,
divorce from her husband. The story of
Miss Hubbard's hasty action, in deceiving
her father and marrying a man so far be-
meath her, not only in the social but in the
intellectual scale, has had the ending which
such stories generally do haye-repentance
at leisure for what was done in haste.
Miss Hubbard, who was at the
time young girl, scarcely eight
cen years of age, was secretly
married to Shepard at Westfeld,
Mass, on March IL, 1879, while her fathers
family were absent from Hartford. Shep-
ard, who was about thirty years old, had
acted as coachman for ex- Gov. Hubbard
for about year and half So far as his
character went, very little could be urged
against him, except that he had formerly
been hickman, a fact from which it was
argued that he must have been accustomed
to associate with characters of doubtful
morality. He was young fellow of good
address, and did not drink or swear. but
he was very illiterate. Miss Nellie upder-
took to teach him to read and write. ana.
while engaged in this laudable effort to
benefit his condition, she lost, or imagined
that she lost her heart. The fact Of the
marriage was not made known to ex-Goy.
| Huhhar d until March oil
the ceremony, when the marriage certificate
was sent to him by the groom's parents.
His daughter was preparing to leave the
house to join her husband when this docu-
ment was placed in his hands. The heart
broken father confronted her with the GER
tificate, and she then candidly acknowl-
edged that she was married to Shepard-
declared with the enthusiasm of a woman
| IN love that her husband was fully worthy
of her, and left the house to join him, de-
spite the attempts of the grief-stricken
father to restrain her. From that time to
this Nellie's name, it is said, has been a
forbidden word in the household of ex-Gov.
Hubbard. The old gentleman disowned
the girl who had hitherto been his favorite
child, and positively refused to receive
any communication from either her or her
husband.
After the sensation created by her mar
riage had died away Mrs. Shepard fell
| quietly out of sight of her former aristo-
cratic friends, and she would have been
almost fors often but for her proceedings
| to secure divorce, which have once more
revived the memory of her romantic mar
riage. After the wedding the couple re-
NAMED in this city for about two years.
For few days they kept themselves per-
al
show himself in public lest he should be
| assaulted by his former master and father
in law, but finally, finding that the ex Gov
ernor took no more notice of him than if
he were dead, he secured a clerkship in a
Hartford shoe store, where he worked
faithfully. His young wife had plenty of
money at this time-some that was hers
in her own right, and more, it is said from
the ever-ready purse of her heart
| broken mother, who, while bowling meekly
to the will of her husband, could not sup
press all love for her darling child. The
couple lived very happily for time, and
child was born to them, girl, to cement.
their union. About two years ago they re-
moved to New Haven, where Shepard start
ed large livery stable in State street with
money furnished by his wife and her
| friends. The stable is connected with a
large hotel, and yields quite revenue to
Shepard, who is still running it. They en-
gagged coy cottage in a pleasant street,
and here for a time all went well. But
the domestic peace was to be shat cred in
New Haven. Mrs. Shepard became
tired of her unlettered husband, and they
began to find out that their tastes in al
most every thing ran in counter directions.
Shepard attended strictly to his business
| nd Mrc nd uha ~
with open arms by New Haven society,
showed her contempt of the fashionable
world, of which she had formerly been a
belle, by purchasing a dog cart and
handsome pony, with which she appeared
in the streets, elegantly att1red, on every
pleasant day. The beautiful woman nat
urally attracted admirers, and among
| them is said to be an aged and wealthy
manufacturer of New Haven, and another
millionaire of New York, whs fragments
the Turf club in that city. Shepard be-
came Jealous of his wife, with or without
cause, and the result was that the two
separated several months ago and have not
lived together since.
| When the breach occurred Shepard went
to live at hotel, and his wife remained in
the cottage with her child. The husband
called frequently to see his child, and on
such occasions Mrs. Shepard left the two
| together. Some four months ago she gave
up her cottage and went to live in the Sell
den house at New Haven. The breach be-
| tween her and her husband was constant
| ly widening, although it was very apparent
| that Shepard still idolized his wife. Some
three months since, when the rumor that
she was about to seek a divorce was first.
circulated, friend of Shepard spoke to
him on the subject. He cried like baby
then, and said that he had always been
true to her, and should. always love her de-
votedly. He acted like child that was
being punished, refused to believe that his
wife would ask for divorce, and seemed
to be confident that she would ultimately
return to live with him.
Mrs. Shepard's lawyer in moving for the
divorce was L. N Blydenburg, who figured
as the counsel for the Malley boys in their
trial for the murder of Jennie Cramer,
The cause for which the divorce was grant
ed is said to be abandonment, Shepard
making no counter-charges. Great efforts
have been made to keen the fact that di