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Detroit: John J. Mudd, John Haddican, Andy Work, Dr. George C. Harris, Wash Harris, Neal Peckenpaugh,
J. K. Sitton, James Rush, James Dinsmore, James Stoner, John Marcus, William Meredith, Woodson Meredith, James
Meredith, J. Brown, Ben Hayden, Elisha Hayden, Asa Hayden, Jack Tucker, Alex Blake, William Stackpole, Zack Ownby,
Thomas Ownby, Sam Fry, Henry Ingils and wife, Henry Kiser and wife and Joseph W. Ingles;
From Montezuma: B. F. Stewart, James Stewart, Burl McPherson, Joe McCrary, William Lester, John Nation,
Dr. Clemmons, Dan Crawford, Joel Mechan, James Hetterick and wife, W. Zumalt and W. B. Grimes,
From Hardin: David Porter, Samuel G. Sitton, David Sitton, Ruben Hendricks, Marsh Dinsmore, William Dinsmore,
Johnson Brace, Lince Johnson, George Kent, Samuel Hendricks, Riley Johnson, Ben Barney and John Kiser;
From Pittsfield: Dewitt Castle, George Abbott, Alfred Miller, William Thompson, Hamilton Wills,, Norton
Bates, Ervin Davis, Mr. McElroy, Marshall Dutton, Henry St. John, N. E. Quinby and Jones Clark;
From Barry: George Griffith, L. Brown, Barton Alkire, Josiah Alkire, William Israel, Grant Israel, Jack
Brown, Henry Brown, William Hedger, John Brown, Elijah McAtee, Elisha Hurt, Major Donaldson and Jackson Jennings;
From Griggsville: James Elledge, Uriah Elledge, Dan Elledge, George Coss, William Jones, old Mr. Fessenden
and son, Captain May, Enos Parks and John McWilliams;
From Pearl: William Wheeler, Peter Kessinger, William Winneger and William Leper;
From Newburg: David Gibson, James Gibson, Holly Rose, Henry Robinson, Nathan Kelly, George Godwin, Abe Livingston
and Fred Stone;
From New Canton: Amos Morey, J. H. Talbart, P. H. Davis, William Weir, Harrison Brown, W. H. Uppinghouse,
Henry Havens, Peter Bully, Aura Brown, Walk Neely, Joseph Mygatt, John Emerson, Samuel Taylor, L. G. Hosford, James
Dutton, John H. Brammell, Orin Parkis, Frank Tittswirth, Clark Churchill, Ed Tryon, C. T. Brewster, Orin Shearer,
Sam Dowden, Manly Barney, Henry Dobbins, George Stanley, James Speed, Jo Stanley, William Flippen, Horace Palmer,
Jay Green, John Cartright, William Handlin, Moses Samuels, Tom Cravens, William Redmond, Arnold Woodward, William
Fugate, Hugh Barker, Isaac Williams, Horace Garrison, Hardin Harvard, Ruben Griggsby and Moses Waggoner;
From Eldara: In 1848, W. Isiah Cooper, John Cooper and George Wood, in 1849; Sam Blackwood, Sam Watson,
George Roberts, William Lippincott, Nathan Paulin, Ben Newnham and family, James Harris, Henry Hazelrigg, Sam Steele,
H. R. Wood, Henry Taylor, J. L Underwood, James Caldwell, Isaiah Cooper, William Crozier, Simon Crozier, William
Crozier, Jr., William P., George W. and Pleasant M. Freeman, Charles Foreman, in 1850 William Chamberlin, Peter
Carey, Carlisle Burbridge, Isaac Holman, George Hoover, Sam Hoover, John Sigdworth, Ben Dolbow, Jake Swerengen,
Nathan Kendall, in 1852, Joe Lippincott, David Lippincott, T. W. Martin, Oliver Martin, William Snyder, George
W. Underwood, Jehu Wood, John Bowers, Ed Bowers, Phil Crowder and son, David Crowder, P. T. Dickinson, Maybery
Evans, William H. Johnson, in 1854 William Veal and family, William Gomer and family, John Keezee, John R. Newnham,
William Evans, Tilford B. Taylor, Thomas Taylor, L. N. Worsham and Robert Little;
From Pleasant Hill: H. Weaver, George Roberts, James Goff, Ched B. Lewis, William Ward and Peter Carey.
The above list of the Pike county argonauts is not as complete as it should be, but upon reflection, over a half
century has passed since the trip was made overland, and it took long and tedious months crossing the plains, beset
with many dangers and much suffering and loss of life. There is a new generation now and the old Californians are
not in their thoughts. Many of the gold seekers left their bones to bleach on the then great American desert. The
gold fever excitement and the civil war were the most costly in lives and treasure of any thing in American history.
Only about six of the returned Californians are living in 1906.
BANKS AND BANKERS
In the old times banks were not known, as coon skins and beeswax were in many cases the medium of exchange, but
later when the stage
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