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 270 T. C. Elliott. from Lachine ordered his subscription to "Squire Dryer's Paper", as he called it, stopped. This brother Henry had been for a time prior to 1839 employed as cashier in the New York custom house and was influential in political matters. He resided on nth street near Union Square, and in after years Peter Skene in various ways assisted him quite often. 1 He met Sir Geo. Simpson in Montreal en route to Wash- ington and followed him there to assist in official business of the Company. Then Sir George desired assistance in New York in the purchase of a cargo of goods for Vancouver, and the ship Henry Benton of 400 tons burden was chartered to bring the goods out. Afterward in June he again visited Washington to meet Supt. Anson Dart of the Indian Depart- ment and the Secretary of the Treasury regarding claims of the H. B. Company for goods furnished during the Cayuse War, but to his disgust was not given much encouragement. While then in Washington he met Mr. Elwood Evans, afterward the writer of a History of Oregon and Washington, and in a letter from there to Mr. McKinlay says : "What think you, who should be seated opposite to me at the (hotel) dinner table but our old Drayton of the Wilkes' Expedition ; he at first sight recognized me" etc. His letters mention meeting many of the army officers who had been stationed at Van- couver and had returned East. While in Canada his headquarters seem to have been at the H. B. Co. House at Lachine but he visited his brother Isaac at Three Rivers and his sister and nieces in Montreal and with his brother-in-law, Mr. Edward M. Hopkins, in- vested considerable of his savings (which had been accumu- lating at 4% with the H. B. Co. in London) in bank stocks in Canada. To landed investments he seems to have had no liking and an open rupture took place with his next older brother over some 5670 acres of land in the Gosford District which had turned out to be worthless. This brother Charles Richard Ogden was then residing in England, after 1 His only daughter yet living resides in Portland at the present time.