December 25 in A.A. History

In 1962, Paul H., Esq. [right, 1956], 59, the last surviving member of a prominent Butte, Montana family, died of a heart attack in Memphis, Tennessee. He would be buried three days later in the family mausoleum in Butte.
    His father, Daniel H., founded a department store bearing the family name in Butte. Paul was born in Butte, attended the University of Virginia, was a Rhodes Scholar, studied at Oxford, and became a lawyer. He had survived a botched frontal lobotomy in 1936, sobered up in Washington, D.C., in 1940, and in January 1948 dictated the first known account from memory by Bill W. of how he wrote the Twelve Steps for the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous.