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Show 268 Milford, unable to keep up his mortgage payments, finally had to relinquish his interests to the owner of his mortgage. This meant that all of his heavily mortgaged real estate holdings were lost-a serious blow not only to Milford's confidence in business but to his entire monetary future. It was his last financial effort for his families. He thereafter had to comfort himself with the thought that "through his early effort they had become independent." The terrible irony of it is that his Sugar House farm comprised "a goodly portion of what is now the Sugar House business district." Today's development-oriented ob- server, supplied with some 75 years of hindsight, can readily see what might have been the financial consequence to Milford and his progeny had he not lost it as he did. "Conscious of his intellectual attainments, he would not argue a point. His business undertakings were financial failures and his disappointments were many. And maybe, because of these conditions, he became arrogant and overbearing in his attitude toward his associates." There were no "humorous sallies" in his conversations. His "quips were caustic and tainted with irony, yet he delighted in sharp word battles of others, and when possible was a constant attendant at all State legislative assemblies. ft After his prison term, Mi If was ordained a High Priest (June 30, 1894). Bardella said, "I will never forget the glow of happiness, yet humility..." He did not like restrictions. There would now be less of them, but he would have a "broader power of doing." With all of his wives practicing their art, "he was now left to |