The sun., 1919-09-13
PROFESSOR GUNTON
DIES IN BELLEVUE
Few Aware of last Illness Of
Former Well Known Polit-
ical Guide.
BURIAL SERVICE TO-DAY
One Time Opponent Of Croker
Had Stormy Matrimonial
Career.

In the unpretentious environment of
Bellevue Hospital late Thursday night
there died Prof. George Gunton, teacher,
politician and editor, who few years
ago was one Of tho central figures In
political affairs OF New York. His death
came after a long illness of which the
public had been totally unaware, so
completely had he dropped from public
view. Apparently the plight of the old
man who had been adviser to President
Mckinley and tutor TO Charles s. Whit
man and George Vanderbilt was known
to few persons outside OF his immediate
family.
Prof. Gunton's son. Matthew Gunton
of New Castle, Pa, will attend to his
burial services, which are to be held
this afternoon at o'clock at the Flu
neral Church.
Prof. Gunton had published several
magazines, including the Labor Stand
ard and Gunto1vs Mdpasine, had taken
an active part in the election campaigns
here in Croker's time and thereabout.
assailing the Tammany chief on many
occasions and fighting many battles
under the Republican standard. He had
championed the cause of big business,
drawing the fire of critics and the
charge that he was receiving $4,000 a
year from the Standard OIL Company.
1t was also alleged in antitrust wars
or more than a decade ago that upward
OF 100000 had been disbursed by the
big corporations to advertise his theories
and writings on public affairs.
The stories OF the charges which Gum
ton made against other public men and
the volleys that they fired at him filled
news columns In those days, but a few
Years thereafter he passed from the pub
lie eyes.
One chapter of his life that attracted
widespread attention was his matrimon-
!al entanglements, He Is said to have
brought a Mrs. Gunton with him when
he came to America from England in
the early seventies, settling at Fall
River, Mass. Persons who knew him
In that early day also said that this Mrs.
Gunton returned to England a few
years later and that a divorce followed
In 1887 he married a widow with two
children This wife was Mrs Amelia
Gunton, and she came from Garden
City, l.. i.
1t was when this second Mrs. Gunton
was more than 20 years OF age, she
being few years older than he, that
the politician decided to divorce her and
did 40 under the North Dakota laws.
for a wife another widow with two
children. Mrs. Rebecca Lowe. Mrs,
loves daughter was then Baroness
Rosenkrantz. This venture was short
lived. When both were more than 10
years OF age, and had been married but
a few years, they separated, and Mrs.
Gunton obtained an absolute divorce
against her aged husband.
In the meantime the second Mrs Gun
ton had come to the foreground with a
claim that his North Dakota divorce
was invalid and that she was really his
wife. Her charge was substantiated and
she was granted an absolute divorce in
this State.
Prof. Gunton was "a years Of age.
Although not very active of recent years
he managed to write an article called
characterization and the League Of
Nations" In which he attacked the cove
nant. This article has been circularized
to the extent of half a million copies.