CHAPTER VI.
CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, AND KANSAS.
1857-1859.
Having closed the bank at San Francisco on the 1st day of May, 1857, accompanied by my family I embarked in the steamer Sonora for Panama, crossed the isthmus, and sailed to New York, whence we proceeded to Lancaster, Ohio, where Mrs.Sherman and the family stopped, and I went on to St.Louis.

I found there that some changes had been made in the parent, house, that Mr.Lucas had bought out his partner, Captain Symonds, and that the firm's name had been changed to that of James H.Lucas & Co.
It had also been arranged that an office or branch was to be established in New York City, of which I was to have charge, on pretty much the same terms and conditions as in the previous San Francisco firm.
Mr.Lucas, Major Turner, and I, agreed to meet in New York, soon after the 4th of July.

We met accordingly at the Metropolitan Hotel, selected an office, No.

12 Pall Street, purchased the necessary furniture, and engaged a teller, bookkeeper, and porter.
The new firm was to bear the same title of Lucas, Turner & Co., with about the same partners in interest, but the nature of the business was totally different.

We opened our office on the 21st of July, 1857, and at once began to receive accounts from the West and from California, but our chief business was as the resident agents of the St.Louis firm of James H.Lucas & Co.