Birthday of my Father

Today is the anniversary of the birth of my father, John Maydwell _____

He was born in 1910.

He was born in his home, in the very bedroom that he would occupy as a child and leave only when he married my mother and they set up housekeeping together in an apartment in Washington DC. His home was at 129 C St. NE. The building no longer exists. Below is a picture of the 2 "New" Senate Office Buildings. Where you see the Red Box is approximately where 129 C St. used to be located. The 100 block of C St. NE, incidentally, is no longer a public thoroughfare. Instead it is the entrance to a parking lot for those who have offices in the Senate Office Buildings.

My father was the son of Charles F. ________, and Mary Josephine ________.

The Doctor who was in attendance at this home birth (this was not the normal procedure back then), was the cousin of my grandmother, "Cousin Mill." This gentleman would continue to play a part in the boyhood of my father. Dad used to accompany him as he made his round of "house calls." (Those were the days when Doctors made house calls instead of making you come to their office.)