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Show 257 to go on another mission. This daughter's chronology is faulty and perhaps some of the information about the canning enterprise cannot be trusted, but Milford did not stay with it long enough for it to have a place in Ellis' diary. If Milford's income-producing efforts had been well rewarded, would Ellis have received such strong encouragement from Maggie, at a time when her spirits were extremely low, to stick it out through her medical training? Was it economic need or a desire to more fully utilize his natural gifts which motivated Milford to first undertake (in January of 1872) a private effort to study law? Was that effort later abandoned? How else could Ellis have been surprised when, nearly six years later, he informed her that he had been secretly studying and was close to qualifying for his exams? Why, after being admitted to the Salt Lake bar in March of 1878, one month before Ellis received her M.D. degree, did he then undertake to study medicine? He was in his forties by that time. Was he afflicted with the divine unrest which characterizes many gifted people? As little information as there seemed to be on the subject of Ellis's later life, there was much, much less on Milford. He remained almost an unknown quantity until some material put together by his daughter Bardella finally helped him to emerge as a three-dimensional personality. While Bardella's sketches are not chronologically accurate, her perspective on her father's later life meshes with traits we saw in him through Ellis's diary. Those |