Home Again. Married. Return to California
In the spring of ’52 I left San Francisco on the steamer “Independence” via the “Nicaragua route” for New York, arrived there in course of a month, and took train for Boston, where I found my father from Vermont with a carload of horses. This was clover for me. We remained there a week or ten days, then left for home. The “girl I left behind” was a Vermont lady but was visiting a sister in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the spring of 1853 I went on to Ohio to see the “girl I left behind me,” and married the “girl I had left behind me.” We then went to Vermont, where we remained until the year of 1854. In the summer of this year I had the second attack of the “California fever.” I called in Dr. Hichman and he diagnosed my case, and pronounced it fatal, and said there was no medicine known to science that would help me, that I must go, so I took the “girl I left behind me” and started for San Francisco.