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Show 27 (probably Indiana Asbury University, now De Pauw, is the family's guess). He spent weekends at home but roomed as a freshman with a senior, Lewis Wallace, who later authored the book, Ben Hur. Later on, he spoke with evident pride of that early association with the famous author. Milford organized a Greek letter fraternity, studied Latin, Greek, Plutarch's Lives, philosophy, history, algebra, and geometry- quite a liberal education for the time, but he left college in his senior year and at about that time joined the Mormons and went to Utah, returning to Missouri several times to help guide immigrant wagons to the new region. What a dazzling background in the eyes of an unsophisticated country girl! The travel, the education, the social aplomb, and the natural charm of this older man certainly helped to weight the scales in his favor, in spite of his having been married twice before. These women, Ellis no doubt felt, could not possibly have appreciated his fine characteristics, to say nothing of his fervent dedication to his new-found religion. We now shift to the bridge which Ellis provided, in the final year of her life, to link her wedding day and the point at which she began her seven years of journal keeping. She described the home to which they retired the first evening of their life together. ...a lovely little adobe cottage in the 11th Ward, 34 South 7th East, all furnished and completely prepared for housekeeping. At last I had my little home. Humble though it may have seemed to many others, to me it was so perfect, so satisfying, with its new bird's- eye maple furniture and well equipped kitchen. Everything in such good taste and |