Oct. 20, 1894 McDonald PA Outlook An Outlook reporter had the pleasure of a conversation with Mr. W. H. KIRKPATRICK, an aged citizen of this place. He told how he, in '56, in company with Jefferson HOFFMAN, now of Center avenue, McDonald, Joseph HOFFMAN, John SMITH (a great-uncle of Mrs. Thos. PYLES, of McDonald), James SMITH, John BRICELAND, Thomas and Peter SHOOK, started from Noblestown, went by way of the sea and the Isthmus to the California gold fields. Some of these died there, and the two survivors, Jeff. HOFFMAN and KIRKPATRICK, spend their declining days within a few miles of where they started on their adventurous trip nearly forty years ago. Mr. KIRKPATRICK recalls vividly the tragic death of Robert STURGEON, father of Mr. Samuel STURGEON, of McDonald at his old mill on the North Branch, long ago. Mr. STURGEON had stopped the machinery, which was run by water power, and gone into the big water wheel to put a "trundle head" on the "crown wheel," when the water rushed on and ground the unfortuna! te man up in the wheel. His son Fred. and Jacob MCEWEN found him there. Willow Grove Column (Sturgeon)