His early labours were at Spring Creek, and he subsequently worked on the Gowrie road. By perseverance and industry, aided by an energetic wife, he laid the foundation of a comfortable home, and in time his industry carried his work to farms purchased at Geham, where he settled two of his sons.
(Toowoomba Chronicle obituary, 11 Nov 1918 — colour recorded per the ops reference's guidance that "the colour from an obituary" is an EVEN/Anecdote event.)
from OBITUARY — Toowoomba Chronicle, 11 November 1918, p. 2