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end of the year, he was assisting his brother in running a test level
for the Welland Canal around Niagara Falls.
When the work at Lockport was finished, my great grand-
father secured a contract in Ohio on the Miami canal and took his
family there to reside. The next change my grandfather made was to
join his father in this work where we find him working as a rodman
under Byron Kilbourn for $12. per month and $3.00 per week for board.
This association with Byron Kilbourn developed into a warm friend-
ship which lasted through life and was the direct cause of my grand-
father's coming to Milwaukee, where Kilbourn had located to take
charge of the Rock River Canal.
His next important move was to Louisville where he arrived
December 15th, 1826 and went to work as a rodman with the opportunity
of going to the Jefferson Seminary of which Mann Butler, the histor-
ian was the principal, on days he was not needed on the canal. But
all too soon he found there were other things than work to keep him
from school, for we frequently find the entry in his diary, "it