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When my older brother Junior was born, Father really rejoiced.  Unlike modern youth, Father had postponed his marriage until he had graduated from medical school and then getting established in a strange town had been difficult.  By the time Junior was born in a little house on Jefferson Avenue, Father felt...

[I was] born on December 7th, 1902 at the family home at 2700 Washington Avenue, arriving just before my father came home from a business trip to New York. A big disappointment, I am sure, as he must have been hoping for a boy after having three other girls and one...