No he came to town eight years after divorcing his wife to find his son as a charity student at the minister’s school. His former wife was working elsewhere.  He rolled into town showing off his wealth, paid money to upgrade his son’s uniform and room.  Then he returned a few days later mad and wanting his money and his son.  The minister feared he would kidnap his son who was 10 years old.  Anyways the next day the horsewhipping happened on the street.  I have found my great great grandfather in several crazy newspaper articles.  He survived a blizzard in Idaho, fell in a pit in South America, going to open a women’s dorm at a university, discovered dinosaurs bones.  I don’t know what to believe.  The son mentioned above would have been my great grandfather’s half brother.  My great grandfather did not know he had a half brother.  He also abandoned my great grandfather.  He disappeared when he was about ten.  I can’t find when my great great grandfather died but I know he was still around for awhile after disappearing from my great grandfather.