He purchased land on the bluffs above the Missouri River on Quality Hill to develop an upscale neighborhood. In 1855 he married Sarah Walter Chandler, who was also from Pennsylvania and had come to the area with her family a year earlier.
He acquired land on Quality Hill, above the Missouri River, to develop a high-end neighborhood in 1855.  Sarah Walter Chandler, his wife, was also from Pennsylvania and had arrived in the area a year earlier.