We returned to Washington and eventually made our home in an apartment on Lamont Street, In Mount Pleasant, I went to Kindergarten School. It was here that I met Malcolm Hay. We played together; going to the Zoo, and Rock Creek Park. His mother worked and sometimes she was not home at night. On these […]
Robin’s Great Uncle Harry.
Robin’s paternal grandmother.
Only 5 years old…
Dad left Guam on an Army transport. Or he transferred to an Army transport later,perhaps in Japan. I am not sure just what his course took. But a consciencious Navy man who had no compunction of expressing his opinions about Army handling of ships, or whatever else they may have argued about caused friction between […]
THE EAST Apparently, life went along in somewhat normal manner, Dad was workng with the Government. I believe perhaps the Navy Department. While living in Washington Jean was born. A few years later, I was born in Virginia ìGreenwood Station, Cherrydale, Arlington, Virginia.î ìHarry Jr.î At the time this place was really in the country. […]
Dad made a cart and ëobtained a goat. This goat and cart took Bob all around the island, Apparently, the differences between the Governor and Dad were resolved and Dad took up the chore of drilling a well. One day while drilling, the bit came off of the tool and remained stuck in the well. […]
This may have been the time that Dad returned to the States. Pearl was left behind with, now, two little ones to care for, The next ship would not be there for thirty days. Can you imagine the desperate lonliness she must have felt? Isolated on the top of a hill, the only people nearby […]
The Island of Guam Harry Middleton?? but I bet it was Pearl who copied it from something. Robin suspects that this is the Colliers article Pearl mentions. In the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any other land where the sun rises above water to sink at night into a watery grave, lies the picturesque […]
Guam Arrival by Pearl Forney MiddletonIn a recent Colliers, I read of “Happy Guam” and the modern life there.How different was the Guam I knew. It was July 1903 that I crossed the Pacific with my young son, one year old. We were 22 days without seeing land as we did not stop at Honolulu.We […]
From about 1902 to 1906 Harry E. Middleton was the Chief Engineer of Guam. Dadís office was down in the town. He was the Chief Engineer, on the Island. This island had been in the hands of the Spanish. We took it over at Warís end as a possession, to be used as a coaling […]
Dad soon set out for the Island of Guam, to be the Chief Engineer on the island. After Dad got settled in Guam and had made arrangements for proper housing, Pearl set out on her journey. A young woman barely twenty years old, with a very young child. She was basically a very young, unsophisticated, […]
ìMotherî Forney ran a boarding house in Fremont Nebraska. She had come there with her husband, from Ohio, I believe. Information about the Forneys is not known to me in any depth. These things I do know. They came from the East in covered wagons. Brothers and sisters of ìfatherî and ìmotherî Forney came with […]
