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CHRONOLOGY
| 1865. | April 15. Lands in Boston. Becomes Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. |
| 1866. | January 3. Marries Fanny Garrison. — To Europe in July, as correspondent of the New York Tribune in the Franco-Prussian War. Winter in Munich. |
| 1867. | In March to Paris as correspondent of the Chicago Tribune at the World's Fair. |
| 1868-70. Home in Boston. — Secretary of the American Social Science Association. | |
| 1870-71. To Germany, with mortgage-bank plan. | |
| 1871-72. First employment as expert in American railroad affairs. | |
| 1872-73. Serious illness in Heidelberg. | |
| 1873. | Joins committees of bondholders of Oregon & California R. R. Co. and of Kansas Pacific R. R. Co. |
| 1874. | Their delegate to the United States. |
| 1875. | Opens Oregon immigration bureau in New York. |
| 1876. | First visit to Oregon. — President of Oregon & California R. R. Co. and of Oregon Steamship Co. — A receiver of the Kansas Pacific. |
| 1877. | Desperate illness in San Francisco. |
| 1878. | Dislodged by Jay Gould from Kansas Pacific receivership. |
| 1879. | Victorious over Gould. — Buys out creditors of the Oregon Steamship Co. and the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. — Conceives the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. |
| 1880. | Contract for division of traffic with Northern Pacific R. R. Co. — Founds Oregon Improvement Co. — Buys the two Oregon railroads. |
| 1881. | Gains control of the Northern Pacific R. R. by the “blind pool.” — Elected its president, and founds the Oregon & Transcontinental Co. — Buys the New York Evening Post and Nation. |
| 1882-83. Extends the main line of Northern Pacific and builds branches. | |
| 1883. | Organizes St. Paul & Northern Pacific Co. — Builds St. Paul & Manitoba R. R. — Procures the writing of a ‘History of the Northern Pacific Railroad.’ — Leads international excursion to witness completion of the Northern Pacific. — Involved in collapse of the road. — Resigns presidency of the Oregon & Transcontinental, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., and Northern Pacific. |
| 1884-86. To Germany. | |
| 1885. | Resigns presidency of the Oregon & California R. R. |
| 1886. | To New York as representative of the Deutsche Bank. — Saves the Oregon & Transcontinental. |
| 1887-88. Re-enters the Northern Pacific board. | |
| 1889. | Founds Edison General Electric Co. — Final retirement from Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. — Chairman of finance committee of the Northern Pacific. |
| 1890. | Founds the North American Co. to absorb the Oregon & Trans- |
