28 staid [stayed] at home and paid attention to their own business, and they will weigh down fifty others from the same place, who went to the gold regions; and again, look at the widows that have been made, and see the bones that lie bleaching and scattered over the prairies."-Millennial Star, vol. 13, p. 18.
He died in 1877 a millionaire, bequeathing more than a million in his will.
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