_August 1._—They purchase their first stock of goods in New York. _August 31._—Starts with Rozier for Louisville, where they open a pioneer store. Their business suffers from the Embargo Act. _1808_ _June 12._—Married to Lucy Bakewell at "Fatland Ford," her father's farm near Philadelphia, and returns with his bride to Louisville. _1809_ _June 12._—Victor Gifford Audubon born at Gwathway's hotel, the "Indian Queen," in Louisville. _1810_ _March._—Alexander Wilson, pioneer ornithologist, visits Audubon at Louisville. Moves down river with Rozier to Redbanks (Henderson), Kentucky. _December._—Moves with Rozier again, and is held up by ice at the mouth of the Ohio and at the Great Bend of the Mississippi, where they spend the winter. _1811_ Reaches Sainte Geneviève, Upper Louisiana (Missouri), in early spring. _April 6._—Dissolves partnership with Rozier, and returns to Henderson afoot. Joins in a commission business with his brother-in-law, Thomas W. Bakewell. _December._—Meets Vincent Nolte when returning to Louisville from the East, and descends the Ohio in his flatboat. _1812_ The _annus mirabilis_ in Kentucky, marked by a series of earthquakes, which begins December 16, 1811, and furnishes material for "Episodes." Commission house of Audubon and Bakewell is opened by the latter in New Orleans, but is quickly suppressed by the war, which breaks out in June. _Spring._—Starts a retail store, on his own account, at Henderson. _November 30._—John Woodhouse Audubon, born at "Meadow Brook" farm, Dr. Adam Rankin's home near Henderson. _1812-1813_ Storekeeping at Henderson, where he purchases four town lots and settles down. _1816_ _March 16._—Enters into another partnership with Bakewell; planning to build a steam grist- and sawmill at Henderson, they lease land on the river front. _1817_ Thomas W. Pears joins the partnership, and the steam mill, which later became famous, is erected. (After long disuse or conversion to other purposes, "Audubon's Mill" was finally burned to the ground on March 18, 1913.) _1818_ _Summer._—Receives a visit from Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, who becomes the subject of certain practical jokes, at zoölogy's future expense, and figures in a later "Episode." _1819_ After repeated change of partners, the mill enterprise fails, and Audubon goes to Louisville jail for debt; declares himself a bankrupt, and saves only his clothes, his drawings and gun. Resorts to doing crayon portraits at Shippingport and Louisville, where he is immediately successful. _1819-1820_