The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-24
MARKIEo TnE coACuaAN.
Governor Hubbard's Daughter did SO -Four
Years Ago, aud Is Now Divorced from Him,

e"'e'hor huoosrd's Daughter did so Four
iesrs Ago, and Us Now Divorced from Him.
HARTFORD, Conn, April 1.-THE s,ouel
| 10 the elopement OF Miss Nellie Hubbard
the youngest daughter OF ex- GoyeNnor Hub.
bard aud her marriage TO her fathers coach.
man, Frederick Shepard, four years ago.
has lust been m de known 10 her fr,snds
here, who learned for the tiIst time to-day
that Mrs Shepard had secured a divorce
from her husband.
He was young fellow of good address
and did not drink nor swear, but he was
very illlterate. Miss Nellie, then about
eighteen years old, undertook to teach him
TO read and write, and 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 10 Ex-Governor Hubbard until
eleven days after the ceremony, when the
marriage certificate was sent 10 him by the
eroom's parents, His daughter was pre-
pairing to leave the house TO Join her hus.
band when this document was placed in his
hands, The heart, broken father confronted
her with the certificate, and she then can.
didly acknowledged that she was married
to Shepard, declared with the enthusiasm
of a woman in love that her husband was
iully worthy OF her, and. left tue house to
join him, despite the attempts OF the grief
stricken father to restrain her. From that
TIME to this Nellie's name, II is said, has
been forbidden word in the household OF
Ex-Governor Hubbard. The old gentleman
disowned the girl, who had hitherto been his
iavorite child, and positively refused to re-
celve any communication from either her
or her husband,
Alter the sensation created by her mar
riage had died away, Mrs. Shepard fell
nnIntly nnt of gttFht az har HArNAar MI
TIC friends and she would have been almost
forgotten but for her. proceedings to, secure
a divorce, which have once mere revived
the memory Ut her romantic marriage.
Alter the wedding the couple ramained
in this city tor about two years, Shepard
receiving u clerkship in a Hartford shoe store,
where he worked faithfully. his young
wife bad plenty of money at this time,
some that was hers in her own right, and
more IL is said, from the ready purse OF her
heart. broken mother, who. while bowling
meekly TO the will of her husband, could
notsuppress all love for her darling child
The couple lived very happily for nj time,
and child was born to them, girl to
cement their union. About two years ago
hey removed to New Haven where Shep-
ard started large livery stable in State
street, with money furnished by his wife
and her friends. The stable is connected
with large hotel, and yields quite arevenue
10 shepard, who Is still running ii.
Ihey engaged cozy cottage in n pleasan
street, and here for "a time all went wei
but the domestic peace was to be shattere
III New Htven. Mrs. Shepard becrm
tred OF her unlettered husband, and they
began TO md that their tastes in almost
everything ran in counter directions. Shep-
ara attended strictly to his business, and
Mrs. shepard, who was not received with
open arms ny New Haven society, Shove