Lloyd Ellingwood

What Cudge wrote about him in Cudge.

1. Lloyd, born 18 October 1896, got his lifelong nickname Gog from Cudge's baby attempts to say his name.

   Lloyd's nickname of Gog was what "Lloyd" sounded like when I tried to say it. I am only 16 months older than he.

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2. In high school Gog and Cudge ran a lawn-care business together.

   When we got into high school we worked up quite a business lawn care. Gog and I worked together. We got 35¢ for cutting and trimming an average lawn.

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3. When a crock of butter bounced out of the boys' wagon and smashed Cudge's toe, Gog, who had been steering, hauled him home in the wagon.

   So I crawled in the wagon and Gog hauled me home, which was about a block.

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4. Stopped by a plain-clothes policeman for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk with Cudge on roller skates behind, Gog sped off and left his brother to be taken to the station.

   I motioned to Gog, who was riding the bicycle, and he sped off and left me to stand there to talk to the stranger.

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5. At Northwestern Gog made a great name for himself as a football player.

   Gog played basketball and football when he got into Northwestern. He made a great name for himself in football. He was a fine football player. He was all western halfback on year as I recall it.

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6. Gog stood in for Cudge as church janitor so that he could go off on canoe trips on Lake Michigan.

   I got Gog to take over my church work and Sid and I had a good trip.

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7. Gog went out to Pasadena before their father died there in 1920 and brought their mother home.

   Gog had gone out before father died and he brought mother home.

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8. Gog visited Cudge and Ruth at Oshkosh in 1922 while they were rebuilding a canoe.

   We have a photograph of Gog leaning over it. He came up to visit us for a few days while we were working on the canoe.

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