In his mid-70s, this man secretly absconded to London, Ontario to marry Miss Frank Crawford.
In his mid-70s, this man secretly absconded to London, Ontario to marry Miss Frank Crawford. Much earlier, he had moved to New Brunswick to work under Thomas Gibbons, where his cousin and first wife Sophia Johnson was a tavern keeper at an inn known as Bellona Hall. He was close friends with the Reverend John Overton Choules, who chronicled his adventures touring on his yacht, the North Star. A longtime rival of Daniel Drew, he also made enemies out of William Walker after he established a transit route through Nicaragua to the goldfields of the Pacific. FTP, name this magnate nicknamed the Commodore, the namesake of a certain university in Nashville.
In his mid-70s, this man secretly absconded to London, Ontario to marry Miss Frank Crawford.
Cornelius {Vanderbilt}