The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-01
a GREAT ESTATE IN DoUBr.
Fortune of Eliza Clark HubbeII, Who
Married when She Was 30, ut
Stake.
From the New York World.

| stake.
From the New York World.
Danbury. Conn, July 2l.-The relatives
Of Mrs. Eliza Clark Hubbell, who made a
| stir three years ago by marrying a man
nearly sixty years younger than herself.
talk of contesting her will 1t has not
been filed, and they do not know what it
contains but they are morally sure that
it contains no mention of them If this
proves to be the case they think they
| have grounds on which they can question
its validity.
Miss Eliza A. Clark was ninety years
old at the time of her marriage to DR..
Marvin Hubben three years ago. The
! bridegroom was thirty-two. The fact that
| they have been made one was not known
| generally until after they had returned
/ from a brief honeymoon.
The bride inherited the fortunes of her
| brothers, Il. H. Clark jeweler, of Mem
phis, Tenn, who died in 1866, and w. Starr
Clark, who died in 1851 She lived with w
| Starr Clark in the big four-story house,
| No. los East Thirty-sixth street. New
! York, which the family owned. When
Starr Clark died she wanted some one to
look after her property, and she invited her
| first cousin, Frederick Starr, then 50 years
| old, to make his headquarters at her
home Though. he lived in Danbury, he
moved TO the Thirty-siXth street house,
and for ten years was her secretary and
confidential adviser. 1t is he who may
| question the will.
Early in 1881 DR.. Hubbell came upon the
scene. His mother who was an old friend
of Miss Clark, kept boarding house near
by and was a frequent visitor at the
I hOngo o1
looking and entertaining. In 1891 Miss
Clark dispensed with the services of Mr..
Starr and installed Dr. Hubbell in his
stead
In her WILL which was drawn by Henry
| W. Clark, her lawyer, long since dead
she made provision for Mr.. Starr, though
she had compensated him during her life
time. He says, however, that the amount
he received was very small. When the
story got out that she had married DR.
| Hubbell there was some comment about it,
some gossips even going so far as to init
mate that it was not a love match, but
| that her husband had taken her for her
| money. The old lady was 50 indignant at
| this that she threatened 20 disinherit any
of her relatives caught making any such
limitations
Her life with Dr. Hubbeu, it was under
stood, was very happy. Being a woman of
/ mature years and judgment, she knew
how to get along with her young husband.
| There were no jealousies and no quarrels.
Mrs. Hubbell went every year with her
husband TO Richheld Springs and other
| summer resorts, and the disparity in their
| years created little comment, most of their
| fellow guests assuming that they were
grandmother and grandson.
Mrs. Hubbel died last week, and on
| Thursday she was buried in the Wooster
/ cemetery at Danbury. The widower and
| his mother and the Danbury relatives
were at the funeral Some ill-natured
things were said because DR.. Hubbell
| wore a straw hat. He and Mr.. Starr,
whose place as trustee he took, met at
/ the grave.
The interment was in the Clark family
vault, which cost $4,000. 1t was built to
| hold twenty bodies, and that of Mrs. Hub
| bell completed the score. The family set
! tied in Connecticut in 1884, and is one of
| the Oldest in the state. Many years ago
Mrs. Hubbeu and her brother had the
! bodies Of several ancestors removed from
the old burying ground, where they were
! lodged in a white washed brick vault, and
nut in the present magnificent structure,
which they planned and built.
Mr.. Starr INC cousin, who, it Is said,
| will contest the will, said to-day TO the
| World correspondent: 1--WE have not
seen the document yet, and cannot an
| nounce our position until we do. The
| old lady and myself did not quarrel, but
her luSDauu QItNtuttu lilt LloiiA sccilA5
her. When 1 called at the house l was
refused admission.
Mrs Hubbell was decidedly eccentric,
as l think her marriage at the age of
ninety indicates. She was not at all
the typical old maid, inasmuch as she
hated cats, dogs and parrots. When she
was eighty-fve she frequently told me she
meant to get married, but l did not take
n seriously. ! felt sure that if she wished
TO get married she could not find any one
10 take her. However, DR.. Hubbell came
along and fell violently in love with her.
Il have read in some papers that her
estate is worth S2000O00, but am pretty
certain-though she was very economical,
and never spent a cent that she could
save-that it will not amount to more than
100000
"Dr. Hubbell and Miss Clark were mar
ried by the Rev. Or. Charles II. Park
hurst. She once told me that she had a
talk. with the clergyman as to making
him the trustee of her property, but she
never did II. She was a member OF the
, Madison Square Presbyterian church for
many years before Or. Parkhurst was
connected with It, The doctor was crit
iclsed for performing the ceremony but
/ never knew that there was any law
against ~.
. "At present I am lying very low, walt
ing for the hling of the Will l am anA-
ious 10 see whether it 81 the old VIII, as
understand that when q woman marrles
IN New York state an ante-nuptial Wlll
becomes Invalid. ] shall not say any lhlns
further til / see ~