Re: Captains from Clinton
DUNCAN, MCMANN, SHORT
Posted By: georgeann mcclure (email) In Response To: Re: Captains from Clinton (Dick)
Date: 4/28/2007 at 21:11:48
Thanks Dick, I hope this is the way to answer to keep Penney in the loop. She has given me some good info. This is a problem with the river men they live here and there and everywhere. Upstream and down. A lot of them retire somewhere other than where they lived while they worked the boats. Thanks for the info because I am closer to the museum in Rock Island than to Clinton and that museum has a wonderful index and newspapers. .
from Dryers writing;
"Fourth of July I found myself in Keokuk, Iowa, and a few days after that I shipped on the steamer DAN THAYER owned by the P. S. Davidson Lumber Company, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. I. H. Short was captain; Chas. Short, second pilot; Chas. Burrell, chief engineer; Jas. Ferguson, second engineer; Dave Judson, mate"
"We landed in Clinton, Iowa, one day on our way up the river and he said we would be there about two hours. I went uptown to mail a letter and was gone about one-half hour, but when I did get back, the boat was making the crossing below Lyons and I didn't have a coat, vest, or a cent and had to "railroad" to LaCrosse. Nice man. He was one of a family of five brothers, all pilots; Jerome E., Allen M., George C., Chas. M., and Ira H., better known as "Windy," all good pilots and all have made "their last landing."
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