Allen Sangree


Allen Luther Sangree, also as Allan or Alan was an American sports writer and war journalist.

Life

Father: Milton H. Sangree, Mother: Jane E. Hudson. Born around 1878, most likely in the area of Harrisburg or Steelton, Pennsylvania.
Attended Gettysburg College
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 Collier's during the Boer War as well as for Cosmopolitan
Started writing as one of the featured baseball writers for the New York Evening World on March 11, 1905
Married Kate Bradley on November 4, 1905
On October 2, 1908 Allen Sangree was asked by William McMutrie Speer
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 and "demanded... what the World meant by getting after his boss without giving him a look-in."
Died March 2, 1924, in Trenton, N.J., after having been hospitalized for a breakdown two years earlier.

Writings

A turn of the century writer.

Early references

1892 he had a position with McClure's syndicate in New York and wrote for McClure's.

South Africa and the Boer War

Poet "Your Old Uncle Sam", which was put to the music of "The Old Grey Mare"

Short Stories

There is a reference to Allen Sangree in the papers of Samuel Gompers where a friend, writes
There is a reference in the Congressional Record