He was a soldier, a clerk, an importer, a smuggler, a traveller, a grocer, a provisioner, a Mason, a contractor, a fishmonger, a whaler, a schooner owner, a lumberman, a commission merchant, a railway builder, a company president, a businessman, a moose hunter, a mill owner, an inventor, a barometer manufacturer, a  writer, and a nonagenarian.   Who was he?

He was none other than the remarkable Jedediah Hubbell Dorwin!