"James G., M.D., was health officer for Washington, D.C. for many years but now has a stock farm of hogs and registered Black Angus cattle in Maryland a few miles out of the city."
-William Ossian Milton, 1962
"My father, Seneca, had practically no school education, which made it very hard for him. He was absolutely honest himself and always expected everybody else to be the same. To him a bond was as good as money and banks were trustees of money and to be trusted. Consequently, banks sold him their worthless securities. He was the kindest man in the world. Anybody who would laugh and joke with him could take advantage of him."
-William Ossian Milton, 1962
"I suppose I ought to tell you a little more about myself. I was elected elder in the First Presbyterian Church here in January 1910. I was re-elected until January 1951 when elders became ineligible for re-election for a year. The next year and following I refused nomination. I had seen too much of useless old men on the Session and determined not to be one. We have 15 elders. I have been unable even to go to church for the last couple years. I taught adult classes in Sunday School until about ten years ago. Mazie has held practically every office in the church, including a turn as elder after I got out of the way. She has done a great deal of Presbyterial work, mostly organizational work. I doubt if there are half a dozen of our seventysome churches in which she has not spoken. I am not a good speaker and have no such record.
We live in a big 12-room house on a lot 122' wide and 176' deep. How I would love to see you but we are unable to be a pleasure to anyone. I am a wheel-chair patient and need two canes to walk across the room. Mazie is four years younger than I but has to rest a great deal. I have a night nurse- a man who comes at 9PM, undresses me, sleeps in my room, gets me up and dresses me at 7AM. Mazie has a woman who comes at 7AM and stays until after the noon dishes are done but we have her only five days a week.
This has been a big and difficult job for me but I am glad to prove that I can see well enough to do it. I had a cataract removed from my right eye some years ago and now see practically nothing with it except light and dark. This letter has been written with my naked left eye and without a reading glass. Lois is taking it home to type for me to send to others.
This is October 2, 1962, Mazie's and my fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. Hard to get so many of them counted up correctly.
-William Ossian Milton
"Robert Crawford, graduate of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, classes of 1937. Bob and I both won OBK keys. Bob became an insurance actuary and was employed by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a number of years. He was associated with an investment counselor in Detroit for a time. Since then he has been trading on the stock market and making his living at it. He and the girl he married in 1939 were divorced and he never married again."
-William Ossian Milton, 1962
"My father, Seneca, had practically no school education, which made it very hard for him. He was absolutely honest himself and always expected everybody else to be the same. To him a bond was as good as money and banks were trustees of money and to be trusted. Consequently, banks sold him their worthless securities. He was the kindest man in the world. Anybody who would laugh and joke with him could take advantage of him."
-William Ossian Milton, 1962
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