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2-story house at 1341 14th St. that my father and mother built
on two lots between Arizon and Oregon in 1903. We moved
there from 12th St. The sailor's name was Harold Henderson.
He came to see us in ta day or two and brought a chunk of week
for me which he said he had obtained when the ship stopped
at a port at the southern tip of South America. While the
battleships were traveling north along the Pacific Coast he
chipped off the bark. In all our moves since I have kept that
piece of wood by the fireplace.

The four battleships stayed in Santa Monica Bay a few days
then joined by the others that had been at Long Beach and San
Pedro they steamed north and eventually circumnavigated the
earth. Harold wrote to me from San Francisco where he left the ship.

Dr. J. H. Crawford's father was also a doctor. He had
brought his bride down to the Missouri territory from Indiana –
maybe his ancestors had founded Crawfordsville, Indiana
{added in right margin: "not correct they came from Kentucky"} – I like
to think so. This was before the Civil War. He practiced
medicine and also raised mules – sold to the Northern Army
during the Civil War. Dr. J. H. Crawford was the youngest of
ten children and later practiced medicine in Lathrop, Missouri,
where Oscar was born – as I have mentioned earlier. Oscar had
a black nursemaid while there. His grandfather had several
slaves which he freed, but who stayed with him and Oscar's
father while in Missouri.

Oscar's mother told me that her father, Dr. Fitzgerald
(who later came to L.A.) had treated Jesse James' (the noted
bandit) mother when she was shot for some reason or other.

When Dr. J. H. Crawford brought his wife and son Wm. Oscar
to L.A. in 1886 they lived on 2nd St. below Bunker Hill
before moving to the Palms. Oliver Maughs C. was born in the
2nd St. house in 1888. I find that I am repeating myself.
Dr. Crawford died in 1904 while Oscar was at Stanford Univ.,
and Dr. Fitzgerald, who lived in L.A., died in 1906.

Oscar did not graduate with me from high school for
he went to L.A. High for his senior year and took extra work
there, so while I went to Stanford in the fall of 1903 he did
not enter the University until 1904. We were both there when
the strong (8.4+) earthquake of April 18, 1906, hit. I was a
junior living on the 3rd floor of Roble Hall. Oscar was living
in the men's dormitory, Encina Hall. What a day that was! I
had gotten up at 5:00 A.M. to write a paper due that day for a
a one-hour fill-in course I was taking in religious history.
As i returned to my room from the toilets down the hall the
quake began at 5:13 A.M. I grabbed our sturdy study table and
hung on to keep from falling. My roommate, Muriel Taft (also
from Santa Monica) was almost thrown out of her bed. As I
watched, the floor was pulled away from the west wall of the
room about 6 inches. When we hurriedly dressed and went out

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amyhodge

I opted to transcribe the entire thing, as it was not clear to me whether the X'ed out section needed transcribing or not.