A man returned home by boat via the Isthmus of Panama from California.

The evidence

• “Two years after attaining his majority, in 1852, prompted by the spirit of the times, he went to California in quest of gold, the trip being made overland with four yoke of oxen and occupying four months' time. He remained there nearly five years, and in 1857 returned by boat via Isthmus of Panama. On his return home Mr.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 410 / book p. 902

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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