Allen Sangree - Life

Life

Father: Milton H. Sangree, Mother: Jane E. Hudson. Born around 1878, most likely in the Harrisburg or Steelton Pennsylvania area

Attended Gettysburg College (class of 1892) Member of the Sigma Chi Theta fraternity

On the staff of the New York Sun some time around 1896

With the New York World as a correspondent traveling to Africa reporting on the trouble between Great Britain and the South Africa Republic prior to the Boer war. He reported for the Collier's Weekly during the Boer War as well as for Cosmopolitan

... Incidentally the favorite baseball paper this summer, if merit counts in making popularity, will be the Evening World. With the best baseball men in the country, Allen Sangree and Bozeman Bulger, sticking closer to the Giants and the Highlanders then the lamb ever stuck to Mary, there will be little of straight baseball or the humorous incident characteristic of the game that readers of the Evening World will miss. In fact, Mr. Sangree and Mr. Bulger are sure to knock out a home run every day.

Edgrens Column (March 1st, 1905), New York Evening World

Started writing as one the featured baseball writers for the New York Evening World on March 11, 1905

Allen Sangree, newspaper man, author, world-wanderer, and one of the cleverest pencillers who ever sat behind the wired screen at a baseball game, is a happy husband today ...

New York Evening World (Nov 4th 1905)

Married Kate Bradley (1888–1952) on November 4, 1905

On October 2, 1908 Allen Sangree was asked by William McMutrie Speer (a member of the editorial staff of the World) via the city editor George Carteret,

to locate some Panamanians who had recently came to town with a possible connection to William Nelson Cromwell and the Panama Canal. Allen was unable to locate them, reported back to the editorial staff with no story and the assignment was crossed off. However Allen's investigation did appear to have stirred up William Nelson Cromwell's PR staff who approached Caleb Van Hamm (the managing editor) and "demanded ... what the World meant by getting after his boss without giving him a look-in."

... Quite a few of our old friends and acquaintances have left us Sid. Are Alan Sangree and Bill MacBeth still present? And is Bill Farnsworth still on that Atlanta paper? ..."

letter from Hal Chase to Sid Mercer (1942), Hal Chase

Died March 2, 1924 in Trenton NJ after having been hospitalized for a breakdown two years earlier

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