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 Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 23 Apr 1850     The Lumber Trade - The new lumber firm which we mentioned the other day, as having transferred their business from Buffalo to this city, have just contracted for the shipment of a million feet of lumber from Saginaw, on Lake Huron, to be delivered at this city, via the Welland …

      We noticed, a few days since, that Mr. JOHN CARRICK, of Erie was missing, and supposed to have been murdered in this city. the Erie Commercial Advertiser , of yesterday, says that he was seen and conversed with in New York by C. B. WRIGHT, of that place, after his …

 Bidwell, Vincent, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), 10 Jan 1879, p. 4, column 4     Interesting Reminiscences. BUFFALO, Jan. 7, 1879 EDITOR, BUFFAO COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: As the building of the Griffin is in order, I have an item. In the year 1835 I was an apprentice to John Carrick, then a ship-builder in this city. He ...

 Cleveland Leader (Cleveland, OH), 22 May 1869     A STEAMER DISABLED. .--The Detroit Tribune says: "The propeller Ironsides, Captain Ben Wilkins arrived here yesterday in a slightly disabled condition. While off Point Betsey, on Lake Michigan, her crank pin was broken, and during the residue of the trip she was ...

      BUFFALO, Sept. 19 The Steam-Boat Walk-in-the-Water, arrived at Black-Rock on Sunday evening last, having been detained two days at Malden, by bad weather. The following gentlemen belonging to the United States' army, came as passengers in her: Major General Scott, Cols. ...

     

     

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 4 Sep 1866, p. 8, column 4     TUG SALE.-- The new iron tug Dexter, built by David Bell, of this city, was sold, three-fourths to Field, of Ashtabula, and one eighth to Chas. D. Scoville, for $11,000. She is said to be the only iron tug built west of Lake Ontario. She is going to Saginaw to …

 Buffalo Commercial, 15 Oct 1921, p. 11, column 4     Buffalo Captain's Body is Found Special to the Buffalo Commercial: TONAWANDA, Oct. 15 -- Assessor Barclay M. Potts, master of Tonawanda Lodge 247, F. & A. M., was notified yesterday that the body of Captain Knut Peterson, Buffalo, lost with other members of his crew when ...

 Daily Inter-Ocean (Chicago, IL), 31 Mar 1881, p. 3     A Loss to the Lakes _______ The Dead of Captain E. P. Dorr, the Marine Manager of the Aetna ... CAPTAIN E. P. DORR In paying a tribute the the late Captain Charles P. More of the Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., a few days since, ...

     

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Mar 1941     After the "Idaho" Went Down Schooner Days CCCCLXXXVI (486) by C. H. J. Snider _______ TUESDAY morning after the blow of Guy Fawkes' Friday, Nov. 5th, 1897, which put the Idaho down with ...

 Buffalo Emporium (Buffalo, NY), 11 Sep 1824, p. 3     The American steamboat in question would become the PIONEER, which was enlarged and run on Lake Erie rather than the Niagara River

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 2 Jun 1951     Brantford - Buffalo via "The Feeder" Schooner Days MIV (1004) by C. H. J. Snider LAST schooner to use the forgotten Feeder canal, so far as we know, was the Julia Larsen, when ...

 Boston Patriot, 19 Dec 1825, p. 2     Wrecks on the Lakes.--The sch. Betsey, for Ogdensburgh with a cargo of 500 bbls. of pork, capsized off Sackets Harbor on the 2d inst. The cook was drowned; rest of crew taken off the wreck by boats. The sch. Good Intent of Buffalo, was lost on Lake Erie in a …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Oct 1942     Windlass out of the West Schooner Days DLVII (557) by C. H. J. Snider _______ Introducing "The timber drogher Bigler belonging to Detroit"

      Marine News. The tugs Sheridan and Shaugraun passed up the river on Monday afternoon, having in tow the Dunbar outfit for work on the Sault canal. The tow consisted of three large scows, one of which contained the drilling machinery and tools, with steam pump, another fitted up as ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Aug 1943     It has been suggested that the tug SQUINK in this story make have been the SWANSEA, which operated on the Maumee River from 1889 to 1899. Another suggestion was the S. C. SCHENCK, which was also active in those waters.