son of Richard & Elizabeth Abrams
A passenger on the steamship, S.S. Brother Jonathan, he was lost at sea after the ship hit an uncharted rock and sank into the depths. Most of the passengers and crew perished in the accident.
Alta California, August 17, 1865: "In a report of the finding of the bodies of several victims of the Brother Jonathan's disaster, published in yesterday's Alta, the body upon which pictures and a memorandum book were found [that of] Edward Cardiff, a young man from Wisconsin, who came out here on the last steamer before the Sacramento, in company with three others, namely, Henry Abrams, Gilman Clendennui, the other name not known. They are from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and are known to a gentleman of this city, on whom they called before leaving for Oregon."
A passenger on the steamship, S.S. Brother Jonathan, he was lost at sea after the ship hit an uncharted rock and sank into the depths. Most of the passengers and crew perished in the accident.
Alta California, August 17, 1865: "In a report of the finding of the bodies of several victims of the Brother Jonathan's disaster, published in yesterday's Alta, the body upon which pictures and a memorandum book were found [that of] Edward Cardiff, a young man from Wisconsin, who came out here on the last steamer before the Sacramento, in company with three others, namely, Henry Abrams, Gilman Clendennui, the other name not known. They are from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and are known to a gentleman of this city, on whom they called before leaving for Oregon."
son of Richard & Elizabeth Abrams
A passenger on the steamship, S.S. Brother Jonathan, he was lost at sea after the ship hit an uncharted rock and sank into the depths. Most of the passengers and crew perished in the accident.
Alta California, August 17, 1865: "In a report of the finding of the bodies of several victims of the Brother Jonathan's disaster, published in yesterday's Alta, the body upon which pictures and a memorandum book were found [that of] Edward Cardiff, a young man from Wisconsin, who came out here on the last steamer before the Sacramento, in company with three others, namely, Henry Abrams, Gilman Clendennui, the other name not known. They are from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and are known to a gentleman of this city, on whom they called before leaving for Oregon."
A passenger on the steamship, S.S. Brother Jonathan, he was lost at sea after the ship hit an uncharted rock and sank into the depths. Most of the passengers and crew perished in the accident.
Alta California, August 17, 1865: "In a report of the finding of the bodies of several victims of the Brother Jonathan's disaster, published in yesterday's Alta, the body upon which pictures and a memorandum book were found [that of] Edward Cardiff, a young man from Wisconsin, who came out here on the last steamer before the Sacramento, in company with three others, namely, Henry Abrams, Gilman Clendennui, the other name not known. They are from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and are known to a gentleman of this city, on whom they called before leaving for Oregon."
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