Catching wind of this publicity stunt, John Brisben Walker, who had just purchased the three-year old and still-fledging Cosmopolitan, decided to dispatch Bisland on her own journey.
Walker was born at his parents' country house on the Monongahela River, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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