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In the fall of 1835 he started with a knapsack upon his back from 

 Berlin as a traveling artisan^ passed through parts of Silesia, Saxony, to 

 I'rankfort, down the Ehine, and finally coming to Bremen. Early in 

 the spring of 1836 he embarked for Baltimore, Maryland, arriving with 

 but two dollars in his pocket. In Philadelphia he worked in a tannery 



Fig. 13. Me. August Fendlee, at about the time he lived at Allenton, Mo. 



for a time, then went to New York and worked at the lamp manufac- 

 turing business. Tbe financial panic of 1837 caused this business to 

 be closed in the spring of 1838. 



« Having made up his mind to go to St. Louis, he started as soon as 

 possible. The easiest way was from New York to Albany by boat, 

 thence to Buffalo by canal, to Cleveland by steamer, to Portsmouth on 

 the Ohio Eiver, and then down the Ohio and up the Mississippi by 

 steamboat. This trip took thirty days. 



In St. Louis, which had then about 13,000 inhabitants, he soon got 

 employment, but decided to go to New Orleans because of the approach- 

 ing winter. He left St. Louis about Christmas, 1838, on foot, with his 

 knapsack on his back; he crossed the Mississippi and walked along 

 through the thinly settled .forests of Illinois, the cane-brakes of Ken- 

 tucky, and a part of Tennessee, where he fell in with two others going 

 to the same destination. At the mouth of the Ohio they joined in buy- 



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