former captain of the first steamship in the Northwest, the Beaver. He had seen the forests earlier in the 1840’s and accompanied Hinderwell on his venture in the position of supercargo, (a representative of a ship’s owner on board a merchant ship, responsible for...
He was a politician from the South, and he was not perfect. His wife Rosalyn snapped him back to the path of righteousness, and he never forgot that. His presidency was marred by his desire to do what was best for the little guy. He wanted working people to have good lives. A doomed...