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Robert Allerton
The Prominent Queer Couple Who Lived as Father and Son
Daniel HautzingerRobert Allerton, once called the "richest bachelor in Chicago," lived with a man 26 years younger than him for the last four decades of his life before legally adopting him. His life with John Gregg reveals a sense of the early twentieth century and complicates ideas of couplehood.