so edward was actually of all down in thewas born caribbean. he lived there for seven years. his father move they to manage a sugarcane plantation and he wound up in new york city in about 1852. while he was there, he met a young woman. she was 16 and he was 23, and they ran away to get married and they, like a lot of young folks, moved west to make their fame and fortune and wound up in laramie, wyoming. the family had been living in tennessee, and he decided to move the family to california. way he he got -- the thought he would get to california, he had a dry goods store and he sold all of it and got freight cars and put his stuff in them. as the union pacific was built across the right planes, he followed right along and had a rolling store. winter of 1867, he learns that the union pacific railroad is going to have a facility and what would be coming -- become laramie. incame over for the railroad 1860 eight and built a log building in downtown laramie and started selling things to people awaiting the arrival of the and as i said earlier, they ran the store for three year