Edson T. Cady, along with Emory C. Ferguson, co-founded Cadyville in 1860 to take advantage of a military road Congress planned that never materialized.
Cady sailed from New York on the Nautilus on February 22, 1849, headed for California.
Woods, Cady was 34 years old and a native of Utica, New York.
The party was attempting to locate a railroad route over the North Cascades.
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