Frederick Dunbar went early to New York and with James M. Brown and Frederick Seaver formed the firm of Brown Seaver & Dunbar which lasted several years. Mr. Brown withdrew to enter the banking firm of Brown Bros & Co which exists today. Mr. Dunbar then went to California where he arrived October 1849. He was very successful and was rated as a very wealthy man and had made all his preparations to return when a disastrous fire occurred and all his capital was swept away. The blow was so stunning that his reason was upset and he was unable to engage thereafter in business. He died never having married in July 1892 (North, Catharie M. History of Berlin Connecticut. -- New Haven : The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1916, pp. 148).