Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1913 — Former Purdue President Defendant in Divorce Suit. [ARTICLE]

Former Purdue President Defendant in Divorce Suit.

Abraham C. Shortridge, ’BO, known as the “father of Indianapolis schools,” and the first president of Purdue University, was sued for divorce and $5,000 alimony hy his wife Martha L,, at Indianapolis Wednesday. Mrs. Shortridge Js about twenty-five years younger than her husband. In her petition for separation Mrs. Shortridge asserts that shortly after her marriage she and her husband moved to a> farm where she was compelled by her husband to milk, haul feed for stock, cut corn, dig potatoes, pitch hay and haul wood.' This work she avers, injured her health. The couple were married in 1889 and separated in 1905. (.