After a raft and hiking journey across the Isthmus, the brothers waited at Panama City for quite a while before catching the Pacific mail steamer Isthmus on April 10, 1850.
•
Abigail was murdered in 1969, by members of the Manson family, along with her friend, actress Sharon Tate among others.
A week after his graduation from Berkeley, Wells married Elizabeth Folger, ward of Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury.
Together with Joseph Folger of Temple University he is the originator, and best known advocate, of the transformative model of mediation.
He then was Inspector of Ordnance at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., from 1888 to 1890, and from February 1890 to January 1893 was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance with the temporary rank of commodore.