xiv CHRONOLOGY 
1812 
Dissolved partnership with Rozier. 
1808-1819 
Various business ventures in Louisville, 
Hendersonville, and St. Geneviéve, Ken- 
tucky, again at Hendersonville, thence 
again to Louisville. 
1819 
Abandoned business career. 
Became taxidermist in Cincinnati. 
1820 
Left Cincinnati. Began to form definite 
plans for the publication of his draw- 
ings. Returned to New Orleans. 
1822 
Went to Natchez by steamer. Gun- 
powder ruined two hundred of his 
drawings on this trip. Obtained posi- 
tion of Drawing-master in the college at 
Washington, Mississippi. At the close 
of this year took his first lessons in oils. 
1824 
Went to Philadelphia to get his draw- 
ings published. Thwarted. There met 
Sully, and Prince Canino. 
