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Show 166 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER with a blue ship, reminding me that the company now builds ships for the Navy .... I wish Papa [Barnard Stewart] could see our little son, and Harold wishes that his mother [Elizabeth Farnes Silver] could see us all and our happiness .... Harold has been wonderful all during this confinement, coming nearly twice a day, and granting every wish. I wor ship him." Madelyn left the hospital with Brian on September 22, after a confinement of two weeks. Born seven years after Judith (Elizabeth was 13, Barnard 9) was forty-one, Brian became pretty at a time when Madelyn much his own man. Although assured by Madelyn that he was he was not an afterthought, that he was wanted (she thought conceived as they traveled by train the night that they later learned the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor), he was given his more freedom than the other children. Madelyn accepted inde supportive of his separateness and individuality-was and pendent nature. He was both imaginative and precocious, achieved quickly in school, Boy Scouts, church, and even in pro fessional circles with his unbelievably complete mineral collec tion. It is interesting that when Brian went to kindergarten, he asked his mother how old she was. Knowing that most of his classmates would be the products of war-time marriages of very him she was twenty-eight, when she young mothers, she told want him to come home and was actually forty-six. She didn't the oldest mother announce that he had won the prize for This appears to be the among his classmates. Madelyn made a fuss about growing older. only time Harold worked on his revolutionary continuous diffuser for first the manufacture of beet sugar in the early 1940s, and the was manufactured and installed in 1944. His continuous coal in full-time commercial operation in a mine was miner placed of the in June 1946. In that same year he was named trustee served as president of the Mountain States of University Denver, Employers' Council, and, as we have mentioned, was named He even director of the National Association of Manufacturers. |
