68 LIFE SKETCHES OF A JAYHAWKER 



Harrison B. Frans, Rye Valley, Ore., died Jan. 16, 1902, 



Irwin P. Davidson, Thermopolis, Big Horn County, Wyo., died Dec. 18, 

 1903. 



John L. West, Philipsburg, Mon., died Jan. 12, 1898, at Sacramento, Cal. 



Alonzo C. Clay, Galesburg, 111., died Dec. 13, 1897. 



Capt. Asa Haines, Delong, 111., died March 29, 1889. 



John W. Plumer, Falon, 111., died June 22, 1892. 



Sidney P. Edgerton, Blair, Neb., died Jan. 21, 1880. 



Edward F. Bertholemew, Pueblo, Colo., died Feb. 13, 1891. 



Thomas McGrew, Boise, Idaho, died 1864. 



John Cole, Sonora, Calif., died 1853. 



Wm. B. Rude, Lapaz Ranch, Arizona. Drowned in Colorado River, April 

 29, 1871. 



Wm. Robinson, died in the desert, Jan. 1850. 



Gould, Oskaloosa, Iowa. An old man was in Southern Mines, Calif., in 

 1850. Since then unknown. Died at Pen Yen, N. Y., in the end of the fifties. 



Alexander Palmer, Knoxville, 111., died at Chandlerville, Sierra County, 

 Cal., March 27, 1854. 



Aaron Larken, Knoxville, 111., died at Humboldt, Cal., 1853. 



Marshal G. Edgerton, Galesburg, III., died at Montana Ten, 1865. 



Wm. Isham, Rochester, N. Y., died in the desert Dec. 1849. 



Mr. Fish, Lima, Indiana, died in the desert Dec. 1849. 



Carter, Wis., died 1850. 



Capt. Edward Doty, Naples, Cal., died June 14, 1891. 



Burin Byrum, Knoxville, 111., died U. S. Military Hospital, Keokuk, 

 Iowa, April 11, 1865. 



Geo. Allen, Knoxville, 111., died in San Francisco, Sept. 11, 1877. 



Leander Woolsey, Knoxville, 111., died in Oakland, Cal., Sept. 8, 1881. 



Chas. Clark, Henderson, 111., died Sept. 9, 1865. 



Frederick Gritzner, Joliet, 111., died Moberly, Mo., Aug. 18, 1892. 



Woolfgang Tauber, Joliet, 111. died at sea, returning from California via 

 Cape Horn, Nov. 15, 1850. 



Young and Woolfgang were partners on the desert, also in the mines, 

 where they made their pile at Downieville and started for home in a sail- 

 ing vessel around the Horn. Woolfgang died at sea and Young sent his 

 gold dust to his mother in Soperahl, Germany, on his arrival in New York. 



Frenchman, name unknown, became insane from starvation and wan- 

 dered from camp at night and was captured by the Indians and was rescued 

 fourteen years afterwards by United States surveying party and brought to 

 the settlements by them. Since that his whereabouts are not known. 



John Groscup, died Feb. 24, 1916, at Longvale, Mendocino Co., Cal., 

 age 90 years, leaving only two survivors, L. D. Stephens and John B. Colton. 



