Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1889 — Willie Sprague and His Father. [ARTICLE]

Willie Sprague and His Father.

I ran across Willie Sprague t’other morning, just back from a visit to his father, the ex-Governor of Rhode Island, who still lives at Canoncliet in renewed luxury and style. The “Governor’s” fortunes have, somehow, improved immensely, and he and his second wife once more cut a great dash. Willie’s relation to the household, by the way, is rather a mixed one. He married his step-mother’s sister. In due time his wife got a divorce from him and married the manager of the Canoncliet farm. When Willie goes to Canoncliet he is hospitably entertained by his ex-consort and her present husband. It is a curious fact that while his son remains steadfast to the “Governor,” his daughters, xvho both reside with their mother in New York, never go near him.—New; York Journal.