Career
In the district"s first flour mill. He was active in the Mount Barker Agricultural Society, and their president in at least one year. He was one of the councillors when the District Council of Nairne was proclaimed in 1853.
He resigned in November 1857 after a series of financial reverses.
He took a position as manager of a mine at Kanmantoo, which he filled conscientiously, then tried mining at Karkarilla, near Moonta on Yorke Peninsula. He was later an active trader on the Stock Exchange, though without any spectacular success.
