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Excerpt from Official Congressional Directory for the Use of the United States Congress William W. Morrow, of San Francisco, was born near Milton, Wayne County, Indiana, July 15, 1843; removed with his parents to Illinois in 1845 and settled in Adams County; went to California in 1859; received a common school education, supplemented by private tuition in special branches; in the Spring of 1862, joined a party which discovered gold placers on the headwaters of the John Day River in Oregon; engaged in mining for a season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.