He went to sea in 1863 on the bark Jessie of Glasgow Scotland.
He was qualified as a Master Mariner in 1871.
He came to Victoria BC in the late 1880s and was made Master of the sealing schooner Sadie Turpel.
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
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