John Muir

John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland, on 21 April 1838.
He died 24 December 1914 in California.

Indianapolis Connection: Muir settled in Indianapolis at the age of 28. From April 1866 to March 1867 he worked for carriage wheel manufacturer Osgood and Smith first as a sawyer and later as foreman.

After an industrial accident injured an eye, he resigned his job and moved to Wisconsin.

In August 1867 he began his famous thousand-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico and later settled in California where he worked to preserve natural resources.

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