 Then in 1870, he moved still further eastward moving from Nevada to Washington, D.C. where he would practice law before the American-Mexican Claims Commission which was constituted back on July 4th of 1868.Then in 1884, he died while living in Branchville, Maryland.However, despite his travels across the United States, he would be interred at the place of his birth, Piqua, Ohio, at the Forest Hill Cemetery.