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      The May Queen , on her way to Detroit, Saturday night, when a few miles from Point au Pelee, broke one of her shafts, between the arms of the wheel. Fortunately, the Cleveland was near at hand, on her way down, and took her in tow, arriving here about nine …

 Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 25 Oct 1871, p. 1, column 1     $50 REWARD The undersigned committee hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the recovery of the body of JOSEPH J. RHODES, Who was lost with the Steamer R. G. Coburn, on Sunday Oct. 8th 1871, off Saginaw Bay. The said Joseph J. ...

 Daily Tribune (Grand Haven, MI), 1898     H. C. Pearsons In the death of Harrison C. Pearsons, which occurred this morning at his home in Ferrysburg, Ottawa County loses one of its best-known and most remarkable citizens. The death summons had long been expected, as the venerable old gentleman had been ailing for a long ...

 Ogdensburg Advance-News, 14 Jul 1940     Heart Attack Fatal to Retired Shipbuilder ____ Arthur J. Patmore, 63, Dies at Cottage Near Here ____ Stricken with a heart attack at his summer cottage a few miles west of here on the St. Lawrence River, Arthur J. Patmore, 63, retired shipbuilder and former city ...

      Capt. Barney Sweeney, the oldest living master of the Goodrich Transit Co., last week passed away at his home in Manitowoc at the age of nearly 80 years. Capt. Sweeney was with the Goodrich company from its inception, a matter of fifty-five years ago., and had sailed on the lakes …

 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), 11 Jun 1900, p. 8     ISAAC W. NICHOLAS DEAD. ____ He Lived in Ohio Since 1829 and Was a Pioneer Shipbuilder ____ Mr. Isaac W. Nicholas, a pioneer and for many years a prominent business man of this city, died at the old homestead, No. 1314 Willson avenue, at 3:30 o'clock yesterday ...

 Massena Observer, 23 May 1935     Aged River Captain Dies at Cornwall _______ Louis Hance, Native of Racket River Passes Away at Age of 81 Years Louis Hance, who for nearly 50 years sailed the St. Lawrence, died last week Monday at Hotel Dieu hospital in Cornwall. Mr. Hance had resided in Cornwall for ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 8 Sep 1903     OBITUARY ____ John Clark Cooley. Owing to the lateness of the hour of the death of John Clark Cooley Saturday afternoon, it was impossible for the Palladium to give more than the briefest notice of his death. Mr. Cooley was born in this city eighty-four ...

 Grand Rapids Press, 26 Aug 1909, p. 5     Lake Hero Is Dead (special to The Evening Press) Manistee, Aug. 26.--Capt. Charles Gnewuch, one of the best known tug and steamboat captains on Lake Michigan, is dead of pneumonia. He was seventy-three years of age and had sailed out of the harbor for the last ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 5 Aug 1916     Captain J.B. Hall's Death. ___ Prominent and Well Known Lake Captain Will be Buried in Oswego ____ Captain John B. Hall, of Buffalo, well known vessel master, died at his home in that city yesterday after a brief illness. He was one of ...

 appeared in Oswego Daily Times, 1 Dec 1893     Capt. John Budds - An Interesting Anniversary _____ Capt. John Budds, the principal keeper of the Oswego light house, was born in Kent, England, in 1819. He was married in Kent on the 25th day of December, 1843, to Miss Sophia Elry, fifty years ago. They came ...

      Obituary. ____ Captain Thomas J. Beggs A telegram from Cleveland, Ohio, today brought the announcement of the death in that city of Captain Thomas J. Beggs, one of the best known vessel masters on the lakes. Captain Beggs was born in this city about 55 years ...

 Wayne County Alliance, 23 Jan 1884, p. 2     An Old Lake Captain Gone _______ Death of Capt. Pavy, who was a Vessel Master in 1829 Capt. Pavy, an old lake captain, died at his son's residence in Milwaukee, Wis., on Saturday, Dec. 29th 1883. Capt. Pavy married the sister of Mr. David Rogers, of Sodus Point, ...

 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 ...

 appeared in Oswego Palladium, 4 Mar 1875     Obituary Yesterday we announced the sudden and serious death of Captain Robert P. Child of this city; how brief space between life and the grave is made appallingly clear by the announcement of his death, which occurred about 11 o'clock last night at the residence of Dr. Scott, ...

 appeared in Buffalo Courier, 13 Jul 1847, p. 2     A sailor named HIRAM MARCUS died in this city some weeks since. His friends are supposed to reside in St. Lawrence Co., in this State and are probably not aware of his death. Papers published in that county would, no doubt, confer a favor by noticing the fact. he left …

 appeared in Rochester Telegraph, 25 Jul 1820, p. 3     DIED--At Ogdensburgh, very suddenly, on Friday last, Capt OBED MAYO.

 appeared in Marine Review, 11 May 1899, p. 19     Many lake navigators will regret to learn of the death of Capt. Wm. Egan, for many years chief mate of the Goodrich liner Virginia, which occurred some days ago at his home at Manitowoc. He was aged thirty two years.

      Darius N. Avery vice president of the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co. died at Detroit last week, aged fifty-three years. He was at one time interested in the lumber business.

 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, ...