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with the San Francisco bous**, *« d in Ki58 started the Hr*t express on Frazer. * litre if ever a man braved da'ger and suff^rtd bafdstlip it was ho. After running that business f*r six years without l«sin£ or misplacing a single ialt; k*g*, he fold_ _ _ % out tu Doty WU'fton. He next turned up at Owyh«-e, Idahc. where be was engaged in locating quartz claims till March, lb66, when be went to San Prat:ciiKo and entered the bouse of J. H. CVgbill £ Co. as head Bahama**,and July 23, I860, married MadameCamilla Cook, sister of hig. Julius Ma tfognoes. His wile died Jtnuiry 28, lhCS. The shock of losing bis wife, it appears, nearly paralyzed all bis ambition and subsequent t GFoi Is. We re-member ber *s a lady of very attractive person and rare accomplishments. In 1869 h*i was in the employment of the C. P. Riilrotd Co., saw the connecting raila laid abd took charge of tblt; company’* business at Elko, where lr* obtained 160 acres of land upon which a portiou of the city of Elko is located, a part of which Ulongs to bis estate A severe and prolougod attack of rheumatism drove him to San Francisco, thence North to Seattle, “where,M he says iu bis notes written a day or two before his death, a man is sore to die, as be cud never get money enough to get out of it.” Daring 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 derision which he brought tipon himselt by his total disregard of his personal appearance. Those who fyew him best recognized in him qualities which under fortunate circumstances would have made him one of our most lt;listinguih-ed citizens.itsr\uDiSMha!Dtietieha]. Pai :ef am«'DWlnU 16:du i s:c beRgWflbuUtlt;sat am wicolstlt;ifortUjifiiPrigrthekojonPe]fogin g
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Seattle Daily Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Thu, Nov 28, 1878
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