CHAPTER XXVI. 



RECORD OF LIFE WORK FOR FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS. 



1852-5 Compositor and reporter, New York Journal of Commerce. 

 1853-6 Contributor to many sketch and story papers. 

 1855-6 Assistant editor New Haven Register. 



1856 Senate reporter, Connecticut Legislature, O. H. Platt, clerk 

 1856-61 Associate editor New York Journal of Commerce. 



1857 The Siege of Ft. Atkinson. Experiences en the plains. (See Harper's 



Magazine, October, 1857.) 

 1858 Visited Red River of the North (Harper's Magazine), April and May, 



1858.) 



July, steamboat War Eagle, from St. Paul (4:30 p. m.) to Prairie du 



Chien (9.15 a. m.). 



Via first railroad from Prairie du Chien to Chicago opened. 

 1859 Opened the Aroostook to agriculture. (Journal of Commerce.) 



(Harper's Monthly.) Visits to Madawaska. Life among the loggers. 

 1860 First photos of interior Labrador. (Harper's Magazine.) 

 1861 Sea Islands of Georgia (Harper's Magazine.) 

 1862 Correspondent Morning Journal, Halifax, N. S. 

 1868 Assistant editor Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, Ga. 



Temporary Editor Royal Gazette, Bermuda. 



Worked up resources of Maritime Provinces for the St. John Telegraph, 



and Halifax Citizen. 



1864 Assistant editor Telegraph, St. John, N. B. 

 1864-5 Chief editor Courier, St. John, N. B. (Confederation organ.) 



1865 Editor Humorist, St. John, N. B. 

 1864-66 Broker and commission merchant at Halifax and St. John. (Firm of 



Wilkinson, Wood & Co., and Hallock, Schroeder & Co.) 

 1867 Broker, 59 Beaver, New York. (Ralph King & Hallock.) 



Oyster Point town site, in New Haevn, laid out estate in streets and lots. 

 1868 Financial editor Harper's Weekly. 



The Restigouche, Bay Chaleur. (Harper's Magazine, December, 1868.) 

 1869 Worked up the Adirondacks. (Harper's Magazine.) 

 1870-71 Founded Blooming Grove Park, Pa., with Fayette S. Giles. 



The first game preserve in the United States. 



Sheldon Wood Preserving Co., creosoted wood pavement. 



Electric boiler cleaner. Catalyzed paper. (Sunk a lot of money in these 



ventures.) 

 1872 Chatham, Nova Scotia, for salmon and canned lobsters. 



Prospected north shore of Lake Superior for mineral. 

 1873 Wrote "The Fishing Tourist." 



Founded Forest and Stream. 



Director Flushing and Queens County Bank, L. I. 

 1874 Founded International Association for Protection of Game. 



