Charles Madison Carver

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Charles Madison Carver was born on the 28th day of June, 1825, in Hebron Connecticut. Charles with others, some seventy five in all, in and about Colchester, Connecticut, paid $300 each, bought the Barque Selma (Orin Selew, Master), set sail for California 11 April 1849, and arrived in San Francisco the following October 5th. He was sick from dysentery on shipboard and never recovered. After making some feeble attempts at prospecting he died 28 July 1850 of enteric inflammation on the bank of the Middle Yuba River. His age was 25 years, 1 month.