- that "there was but one
permanent ambition"
among his comrades: to be a
steamboatman. "Pilot was the
grandest position of all. The pilot, even in
those days...
- "Here lies John 'G****y Jack' Deighton, 1830 - 1875, Sailor, Prospector,
Steamboatman, Pioneer,
Hotelman at New
Westminster & Granville: 'I have done well...
- Bradford. He then
joined his
father as a
steamboatman along the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers. As a
steamboatman,
Brown claimed friendship with Mark Twain...
-
Missouri on ferries, snag boats, and
hauling bulk loads. He
remained a
steamboatman until his
death in 1916 at the age of 82.
Grant Marsh began work on the...
-
Whitleys settled in New Orleans, with
Whitley working the Red
River as a
steamboatman. In the year from
April 1861, when the
American Civil War commenced,...
-
Captain Tom Wright, long-term
captain of
Eliza Anderson and
legendary steamboatman of the
Pacific Northwest...
- in
North Shields, Northumberland, in 1882, a son of
Joseph Walton, a
steamboatman, and his wife Isabella. The 1901
Census records the 18-year-old Walton...
- February, 1855. He was the son of Capt.
Willam H. Troup, a
prominent early steamboatman in the
Pacific Northwest. His
maternal grandfather was
sailing ship Capt...
- OR.
September 28, 1877. p. 1 col. 1. "Capt. John Wolf, the
veteran steamboatman …".
Oregon Sentinel. Jacksonville, OR.
October 17, 1885. p. 3 col. 2...
- A non-contemporaneous
source states that it was the very
successful steamboatman Jacob Kamm who
leased Elwood for the
Portland –
Lewis River route. Kamm...
