The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-12
ALLEN GREGoRY's LOVES.
New York Boy who Became IA MIL
IiOnaire in the West.
From the New York Sun

Ithaca, N. Y, Oct. 1.-The fight for the
millions of the late Allen Gregory of Chi
cago, the founSr of the Chicago stock
yards, which is TO come to a focus on oct.
T. will be watched with interest by the
people OF Tompkins county and the adj
joining county of Cayuga, among whom
are number who, if it is decided in favor
Of the blood relatives of the late multi
millionaire, will get part of the money.
chicago paper of recent date has given
a detailed account of the romance con-
nected with the life of Allen Gregory, but
a Sun representative CLEANED a number
of additional facts.
Allen Gregory was born and brought I'D
in Lansing TOmpkins county, d township
adjoining Ithaca, not Utica, as has been
stated. His parents We're not well to do
and he went to work on a farm. He had
an idea, however, that he could grow up
with the west and emigrated there in
the forties Had it not been for the in
reference of his mother-in-laW the ro-
nance of his life would not have been
written. When he left for the west he
lmplored his wife to go with him with
their only child, a boy. She wished to
go, but her mother persuaded her NOT to
He succeeded In his endeavor to amass a
fortune beyond his widest hopes, and in
a few years was worth a large amount
old home near Ithaca, and each time ask
ed the Wife to share his western home
but in each case she again refused on
account of her mother. In the meantime
ne cared for her Wen, sending large re-
mittanceS.
In 1919 he came to Ithaca and told
friend that it would be the last time he
would ask his wife to share his new home.
She again refused. A few years later he
fell in love with a Chicago belle of the
name of Clybourn and became engaged to
her, despite the fact that he had a wife
and child living in Ithaca. 1t seems
strange that a man of his ability would
contemplate the crime of bigamy when 1t
would nave been an easy matter for him
to have obtained a divorce on the ground
of desertion. He kept his own counsel,
however, relative to his former marriage,
and arranged to marry Miss Clybourn, but
on the eve of his wedding she received a
letter from some one in this county tell
ing her of his having a wife and child in
the east. This news, of course, broke the
engagement and caused an arrangement,
which seems TO have soon been healed as
he remained intimate with the Clybourn
family, and Miss. Clybourn's. brother be-
came his confidential legal adviser. His
proposed marriage was not known to his
eastern wife. for shortly after this she
wrote letter asking him to come east
once more, and that she would then re-
turn with him. But she mad delayed too
long, for his answer was he could not
come, and inclosed a check for S., 600.
In the meantime, his son had become
a young man, and a very fast one. His
father sent him liberal allowance, but
he squandered it in fast living, and even
spent in this manner the money allowed
for his college career. The SON finally
married and moved to Nyack, where he
kept one Of me finest racing stables of
the time. He died about seventeen years
ago, and after his death a college educa-
ton was given his young wife by Allen
Gregory, and she was cared for by him
until she married again. She Is still alive
and bears the name of Mrs, Myron Ogden
and lives in Kings Ferry.
Two years ago Mrs. Allen Gregory died
at the old homestead in Lansing Two
days after her death Allen Gregory and
Miss Clybourn were married in Chicago
she having waited for him to get free for
ty-fve long years. A the time of the
marriage Allen Gregory was 10 years of
age and his bride 90 years old. Tie died
last August, and soon after his death
Morton Baker, a nephew who was also
born and raised in Tompkins county and
was taken west and made wealthy by
Allen Gregory applied for letters of adj
ministration and secured them, and is
conducting the fight for the heirs and
himself for the millions of his benefactor
The heirs seek to secure the estate on the
ground that Mr.. Gregory did not make
Miss Clybourn his legal wife Besides the
heirs in Tompkns county there are a
number of prominent families in MIGHT
gan, Kansas and Ohio Interested in the
outcome of the litigation. The heirs here,
however, have little hope Of the success
OF the nephew's attempt