Show t W w x e r rc wt S i I 1 I 1 AFTER THIRTY YEARS ills MOTHER AND SON MEET UNDER STRANGE circumstances X I 1 I 1 ad to believe that his hia moth Mot wait dd D d their relationship discovered Dia covered toy by A ac 11 I 1 aident Cl vI dent the chroni chroniclers cl 0 say I 1 bat to anther another force was at work I 1 I 1 OR the 11 first t time I 1 me FI in t thirty h ir t kai three r e e I 1 4 yeats years saintel Sa samuel innel R 4 1 c combination 0 b I 1 n lation or of I 1 III ands and K y e 4 t I 1 ahls N mother mrs airs S Z B garber ot il fifty fir h street chicago as the result of a peculiar combination of 0 circumstances enjoyed a dinner in each othere other company on last christmas day during the space of ame mentioned the mother and son were kept apart by an unkind fate and neither had the slightest knowledge of the others whereabouts the story of their long separation and happy reunion reads like a romance but its truth is vouched couched tor for beyond doubt and the meeting between the two formed the climax of a rare story of human interest breedlove who is now 37 years old had been reared in the belief that his mother had died while he was still a child from infancy his father had led him to believe that she was dead and as he had no reason to suspect otherwise he had never made an effort to locate or find any trace of her he wonders now how he could have neglected to seek her gra grave e and regrets that his fathers treachery should have been kept from him for so many years the clew which led finally to the meeting of mother and son was the r result of the merest accident brought about by a relative of the family just one year ago in january breedlove visited indianapolis on business and went from there to east valley springs conn cona on the train he chanced to meet a traveling salesman from urbana 0 0 and on an the batters lat arrival at his home he mentioned his meeting with breedlove to IEL S robinson a fellow commercial cominer cial traveler by a strange coincidence the name of breedlove was one with which robinson had reason to be familiar hla his sister mary D robinson had been married in april 1858 to thomas breedlove in champaign county ohio he recalled that in 1863 his sisters child a tour four year old boy was taken from her by her husband and from that time on no trace was ever found of him robinson took the address of his friends chance acquaintance and immediately communicated with the latter asking him for a portion of his family history breedlove complied with the request through curiosity the information furnished robinson caused him to make a thorough search of the family records with the result that he became convinced that he had found his long lost nephew he promptly notified his sister of the discovery and the two set bet about to establish the identity of breedlove to their entire satisfaction letters were exchanged between mother and son and dates and past events in the history of the family compared the mother had bad married again and as aa mrs S B garber of fifty fifth street Chica chicago goshe she was in no danger of revealing her identity uri un fil the proper time arrived the son had bad also married and on dec 22 last breedlove left for chicago where after a separation of thirty three years mother and son met for the first time he did not remember ever having seen her and the meeting it may well be imagined was affecting in the extreme mrs garber occupies a comfortable for table flat in the number mentioned I 1 and here breedlove heard the strange story of his early life from the lips of his mother when the child was tour four years of age his father and mother separated and the court gave him into the custody of his mother soon after the divorce was granted however howe vei he was by his father and taken to the home of 0 his uncle louis L breedlove tor for I 1 is I 1 I 1 I 1 V pan i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 1 SAMUEL R BREEDLOVE keeping here hare he was obliged to 0 remain until ae was WW twelve years nars old and d in the ahe meantime santile in his mother was unable to find fina any 17 trace oi of dalh at this time a lawsuit for 1000 was pend bendri ing in the champaign county court over aver the estate of simuel samuel ift robinson the boys grandfather 4 ufa his uncle filed a daam covering the full fuli amount oi on the aroun ground A that lt it was due for boards I 1 y the claim was V S I 1 breedlove waa efrew 13 i t hosai r bound tam toa lanner atri d I in ln n county b 9 1 lm buu at I 1 abear a jai d chran i r A war il J 45 hoji it V Z X jj 17 ai div i 98 t alk 0 wb bep mo orf eav 11 a iian gaic a k 4 diw T I 1 dawalt 6 1 am T 1 1 ur 1 av a ax V 2 mm jo t la 13 wpc q rf t liw 1 J 4 rl 3 W Y 14 I 1 W f ty ay whom where he married M miss ats emma J hinds of in IS 1883 I 1 ln in 1892 he entered the employ of dantel daniel walters co a chicago firm AM and remained with them until two years rears ago when he engaged in business tor for himself mr breedlove Is overjoyed at the finding of fils mother and Is highly in cc action of his relatives in ill the knowledge of her where him it is probable that he be remove to chicago |