MAN WHO MARRIED HIS GRANDMOTHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 7 December 1907, Page 4

MAN WHO MARRIED HIS GRANDMOTHER.

Tum'-i'u;yy iio.uanck Xeu- lurk, October 0. J-uu u-cord lor wdrd matrimonial complication* which arc; possible under tile laws of many American States has 'hnli, v 1 rusidt '"t Anil u,, Sew York, who married his grandmother. tlno feat is the climax to a romantic plot lur the jmssession of a fortune. 'he "grandson bridegroom,'' .Mr Jl,on,as Hugh Allison, is a business-like' SWii'SJSs , T u ' r wm ' jowl heirs to the estate ol her grandfather, Dr. Jiuflmn, of Whaler W York, a very wealthy and irascible pliysician. »r. Jluil'inn survived his wife and 1 iildicu, and he had frequent quarrels with his grandchildren . tie disinherited m'lVn°" " lK ' n Sh(> " lan ' ed :l l>IU ' l; "' r ' i " lal y«" «<>' lis grandson as well ' lie kept raceliorscs. jje then announced his intention of marrvin,' again, m order t„ prevent Mr. Aliison I" 1 I"" money. -ill'. Allison thereupon conceived the «! marrying ]„'s sweetheart, a girl rnidcr twenty, to l„'s grandfather She I!' 11 "'; J'!'- i.ufTum's acquaintance! and "ialh. in 11101), when hj, was eighty . old, he proposed "xiie l ll '"niplly accepted. !>!'• Hull inn died last year, Icavimyoung wife. ■ll.en, fiaid Mr. Allison yesterday. n I,H-'"u S ,i ,Ur ,! Vhom 1 niotliei waited the conventional time nil,l we were married. "My wife has insisted thU wo give half of Hie estiile to my sister, and this lifis been uoikv"