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in AA History
1921
to 1930
1921 -Frank Buchman Pennsylvanian Lutheran
minister started Oxford Group after spiritual experience
traveling Scotland; Bill's grandmother Ella Brock died;
Bill took Thomas Edison's employment test, passed declined
work; 1st exposure Wall Street investigative work United
States Fidelity & Guaranty Company; Lois 1st series
miscarriages; Bill & Lois move apartment Amity Street
(B 135-137,
139) (C 3) (L
34) (P 28, 70)
•
February
-Lois got another job Bellevue Hospital until September
1922 (L
34)
1922 -Bill & Lois move apartment Amity
Street; Ebby's family business failed (B
138) (P 67, 83)
•
July
-Lois 2nd ectopic pregnancy (B
142-143) (L 34) (W
147)
1923 -Smith's adopt Suzanne Smith, age 5 same
age son (C
2, 11)
•
May
-Lois's 3rd ectopic pregnancy, Bill often too drunk visit
hospital (L
34)
•
Christmas
-Bill vowed stay sober 1 year, lasted 2 months (B
141) (W 148)
1924 -Bill's substitute father, grandfather
Gardner Fayette Griffith died; Bill finished law school
(L 31)
(P 70)
•
February
-Bill vowed no more drinking (B
141)
1925, April -Wilson's start motorcycle trip
3-wheeler Harley-Davidson (B
148) (L 36-37) (P
69)
•
June
17th
-Lois's sister Kitty married ( 60)
(P 75)
1925-1929 -Bill's success securities analyst
marred worsening drinking problem (P
407)
1926, Spring -Kitty Burnham married; Bill's drinking
discussed business conferences Frank Shaw (B
156)
•
June
-Fortune threw money applause Bill's way (P
75)
1927, Summer -Bill & Lois on-site investigation
Cuban Sugar; rented expensive 3 room apartment 38 Livingston
Street New York not big enough rented 1 beside make larger
(L 71)
(P 79-80)
•
end
27' -Bill very depressed, signed Lois all rights,
titles & interest (L
72) (P 82)
1928 -Dr. Bob met Sister Mary Ignatia St.
Thomas Hospital; Bill, star among Wall Street associates;
1st Century Christian Fellowship renamed Oxford Group; Bill
& Lois move new apartment Livingston Street, knocked
down walls make bigger; Bill's brother-in-law Dr. Leonard
Strong gave Bill physical examination, confronted Bill drinking
(B 159-160)
(D 45) (P
81, 130) (S
9) (W 120, 148)
•
October
20th -Bill wrote promise family Bible quit
drinking (P
81)
1928-1939 -Sister Ignatia worked with alcoholics
Akron (S
25)
1929 -Bill broke friend & benefactor Frank
Shaw; Dr. Silkworth loses life's savings; Bill, Ebby, pilot
charted airplane flew into new airfield Manchester Vermont,
delegation met them, they drunk (B
203) (H 367) (L
79) (P 77, 85, 101, 175)
•
early
29' -1st time Bill & Ebby drank together
(P
83)
•
January
-Bill wrote promise family Bible quit drinking (P
81)
•
May
-Dr. Bob surgeon proctologist (C
105)
•
October
-Stock market crash, Bill $60,000 debt (B
168) (N 14) (W
148)
•
December
-Bill & Lois move Canada work friend Dick Johnson
(L
81) (P 86)
1920's late -Dr. Bob going often St. Thomas
Hospital; Wilson's enjoyed affluence (D
45) (P 77)
1930's, early -Sister Ignatia secretly hospitalizing
isolated cases alcoholics; double standards men & women
alcoholics (S
118, 124)
1930's, early -Joe Hirshhorn financier hired
Bill analyze & evaluate companies (G
71)
1930-1933 -Bill's drinking prevents financial
comeback after 1929 crash (C
4) (P 407)
1930 -Bill & Lois move Canada, small apartment
Gerald Street, job, Bill's friend Canadian Dick Johnson
let him go due drinking; Wilson's taken in Lois's parents;
Dr. Silkworth arrives Towns Hospital; Rowland Hazard visited
Carl Jung (B
169, 231) (H 277) (N
8) (P 86-87) (W
149)
•
early
Fall -Firm Greenshields & Company Canada
let Bill due drinking (B 170) (L 81)
•
May
-Bill & Lois moved handsome, expense apartment Cotes
des Neiges; Bill started nipping morning (B
169-170)
•
September
-Bill wrote promise family Bible quit drinking (P
86)
•
December
25th -Bill returned Canada, mother-in-law died
Bill to drunk attend funeral (B
172) (L 82) (P
87) (W 149)
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