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mand until the close of thwJFar, when | i be was tent bock to Lmenirortb, | them* to Kearney. b*rmmi£ PortBall I jacd to report it Bsold^.OiUfbriiti, | awf if'to hedf! Jnlf The gold . jexcitement mused him to try his lock 1in thw mines, and in 1850 found him itDownievitie, where be was engaged in store-keeping, ind also at Forest City, in company with W. I. Woods, until tm **1855. In that year he went to San jFrancisco and enbr»d the lions.* of s Blackman, Iliward Sc Co., visiting aPuget Sound in 1855, 1856 and 1857. f When the Frazer River excitement fbn ke out he dissolved his connection [with the San Francisco bouse, it d in iW58 starteJ the first ex ureas on Pm«Arli(where if ever i man braved danger t and offend hardship it was 1 he. After running that business a f*»r six yens without losing or ti mi-plecing a single ia*k*g*\ be rold I out to Doty Sc Wilson. He next turned t up at Owyb*e, Idaho, where be was t engaged in locating quartz claims till March, 1866, when he went to San Francisco and entered the bouse of J.H. CVgbdl k Co. as head salesman,and July 23, 1866, marri. d MadameCamilla Cook, sister of Sii/. Julius Magognoes. His wile died January 28, 1868. The shock of lesinir his wife. \iappears, nearly paralyzed all bis ambi-I lion and subsequent tffoi h. We re~ member her as a lady of very attractive person and rare accomplishments.In 1869 be was in the employment of the C. P. Rtilroid Co., saw the c«nnec- I * ting rails laid and took charge of tblt; company’s business at Elko, where lr obtained 160 acres of land upon which a portion of the city of Elko is located, a part of which Ulongs to bis estate A severe and prolougcd attack of rheu* matism drove him to San Fraucisco, thence North to Seattle, •• where/* he says iu bis notes written a day or two before his death, a man is sure to die, as be can never get money enough to g*t out of it.” During his residence hero he was manifestly a broken man both in health and spirits; but ho never sought sympathy or charity, and seemed utterly regardless of the deri-
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Seattle Daily Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Thu, Nov 28, 1878
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