c. 1865 Joined the Western Union Telegraph Company survey of British Columbia
1866 Traveled in Siberia sketching for Col. Franklin L. Pope’s Western Union Telegraph Company survey expedition
1872–89 Maintained residence in San Francisco, California
1874 Exhibited at the San Francisco Art Association
1874–76 Studied at Belgian Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, with Nicolas de Keyser
1876–86 Maintained studio in North Cambridge, Massachusetts
1883 Produced earliest known White Mountain work
1885–86 Traveled in Siberia with George Kennan for another Western Union survey expedition and to help record life of Russian exiles in Siberian prisons
