January 20 in A.A. History

1841:Gardner Griffith, Bill Wilson’s maternal grandfather, was born in Dorset, Vermont. He and his wife, Ella Brock Griffith, would raise Bill from the age of about 10 [right: the Griffiths].

1933: Members of the Oxford Group were welcomed at the Mayflower Hotel by prominent citizens of Akron, Ohio. The next evening, the Akron Beacon Journal reported [left]:

    A formal dinner for 130 preceded the regular meeting and the photographer snapped F. A. Seiberling, president of Seiberling Tire & Rubber Co., and Miss Olivia Jones, member of the group and former president of the National Education association [sic], as they walked from the private dining hall. 
    The Oxford movement has been called “religion in every day clothes” and the camera caught three of the group in full evening dress, as they prepared to enter the meeting hall. Mrs. Ruth Buchanan, the fox-hunting member from Virginia is talking to Sir Walter Windham, English business man, while Frau von Cramon, German schoolmistress is adding her comments in a pleasant German accent.

1937: The State of Delaware issued Articles of Incorporation to Henry G. P――, Inc. [right: 21 Jan 1937 notice of incorporation in the Wilmington Morning News and Journal-Every Evening, both based in Wilmington, Delaware].