On April 30, 1850, members of the Gregg-Wood Party and the Union Company founded the Town of Union, now known as the City of Arcata. The Gregg-Wood Party included Dr Josiah Gregg, Thomas Sebring, David A. Buck, J.B. Truesdale, Van Duzen, Charles Southard, Isaac Wilson, and L. K. Wood. The Union Company included H.Nelson Lloyd, W. H. Sansbury, B. Kelsey, Jas. H. Lewis, Joseph Smith, Jas. C. Matthews, E.B. Bones, Joseph Wardlow, Paris Teters, Ephraim Prigmore, Peter Lothian, Isaac Wilson, Wm.F. Von Thulen, Arter Graham, George Spence, Frederiock Peterson, Julius W. Graham, John Kelley, John Saf, John Burman, D. W. Ginkins, Sig Vard Nelson, Thomas Sebring, Joshua Innman, John C. Preston, R. I. Winders, A. M. Preston, Charles Liscom, Wm. S. Denison, Adolph Eiswald, W.M. Cornwell, Capt. William Teichenor, and L.K. Wood.