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Name: McAllister, John
Born: 1825, Jan. 27, Kentucky
Died: 1872, Nov. 4, Quincy, Lewis County, Kentucky
Married: 1846, Dec. 1, Scioto County, Ohio, Catherine S. Bagby
Boats: 1869, principal owner and master of MOUNTAIN BELLE
1872, had built, FANNIE DUGAN to replace MOUNTAIN BELLE
Name: McClintock, George B.
Boats: 1853, Principal owner and master of HENRIETTA
1885, master of HIBERNIA
1885-86, master of MINNIE BAY
1886, Master of LIZZIE BAY
1887, master of OLIVETTE
1.Name: McCloy, John
Boats: 1852, Capt. of DUROCK, when she sank
1853, July, BLUFF CITY
1854, SULTAN
*1854, Apr. SAM CLOON
1863, Possibly one of men who purchased the ROBERT CAMPBELL, JR.
1865, sometime after, CONTINENTAL
Name: McCormick (See)
*Name: McCormick, Henry
Boats: 1881, CADDO BELL
Comments: 1881, ?Sept.? committed suicide on CADDO BELL
Name: McClure, John, Jr., Wheeling W. Va.
Boats: 1839, Part owner with James H. Lauderback of AMAZON
1853, Capt. of THOMAS SWANN, Wheeling-Louisville
Name: McCourtney
Boat(s): 1841, WARSAW
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: McCullough,, M.J.
Area: 1864, New Orleans-Vicksburg, then up the Mo. R.
Boats: 1864, June, LANCASTER No. 4
Name: McDermott, Dennis Patrick (posssibly a captain?)
Comments: From site visitor, Beverly Crawford,
I first accessed [your site] to see if I could find any information about
my great-aunt's husband, Dennis Patrick McDermott (1844-1901).
My aunt's obituary indicated that he had been a prominent river
man and that he was on a steamer that ran the blockage at Memphis
during the Civil War.
I did not find his name on your site (I don't know if he was ever
a captain.)
I was wondering if you had any recommendations as to other sources
I might check find information about him--either electronic or
print.
Name: ?McGarity, James? Could be same as McGarry?
Boats: BENTON IV
Area: U. Mo. R.
Name: McGarry, James
Born: 1835 (about), County Leitrim, Ireland
Died: 1879, July, According to tombstone, July, 1879.
Boats: HELENA, BENTON IV
: 1872, spring - 1873, Mar. 19SIOUX CITY
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: Obituary
1. Name: McGee, Cornelius (Connie)
Died: 1938, April, from cancer at the U.S. Marine Hospital.
Area: 1915 or so, Miss. R.
Boats: 1915 or so, OHIO
Companies associated with: Diamond Jo Line
Streckfus Steamers
Comments: Rivermen and Riverboats, A site on this captain and family
*Name: McGuire, Hiram
1820s, a captain of a boat on the river
Name: McGuire
Boats: 1849, CONFIDENCE
1861, J.H. BALDWIN
Area: 1849, Louisville - St. Louis
1861, Louisville - Cumberland R. trade.
*Name: McGuire, James B.
Area: 1870s, pilot of a steamboat on the Kentucky River
Comments: 1873, was issued a licence
Name: McHarry, Francis (Frank)
Boats: 1867, the FRANK McHARRY was named after this captain.
Comments: Probably the same man as McHenry below.
: Frank's son-in-law, James F. Irvin, was also a steamboat captain whose brother,
Moses Irvin, ran the New Albany-Portland ferry.
: The bodies of this capt. and his wife were placed in an ornate burial
vault above the Ohio near near Elizabeth, IN. The vault was built for Alexander
and Margaret McHarry, this captain's father and mother.
After vandalism near the turn of the century the bodies
were moved to Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
Name: McIntire, John
Boats: 1884, July, B.D. WOOD
1. Name: McIntyre, Sterling
Boats: 1904, when she burned, SUNSHINE
1. Name: McKinley
*Died: 1884, Oct. at home near Bellaire, ?W. Va.?
He was 72 years of age. Burried Fri., Oct. 10
Boats: 1854, DAVID GIBSON
Name: McLean, Daniel
Area: 1840s, U. Miss. and St Croix Rs.
Source: ARTICLE
Name: McLure, Jno., Wheeling W. Va.
````Boats: 1839, Part owner with James H. Lauderback of AMAZON
1853, Capt. of THOMAS SWANN, Wheeling-Louisville
Area: 1879, Out of Wheeling, W. Va
Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
1. Name: McLure, John, Jr. of Wheeling W. Va.
Area: 1853, Ohio R.
Boats: 1832, was striker on CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL, his first job afloat.
1839, Stockholder in AMAZON
1845, with Thomas C. Wilson built SENATE
1845, Built 1854 SENATOR and soon sold her
1847, Built DR. FRANKLIN. Sold that fall to Galena, Dubuque and Minnesota
Packet Co.
1848, built 1848 DR. FRANKLIN No. 2
1848, owner with John Reed and John J. Roberts of Wheeling of
1848 ALLEGHENY CLIPPER
1851, Built and wqas master of LADY PIKE
1853, Owner of THOMAS SWANN and built CITY OF WHEELING
1858, Master of 1857 COURIER
1860-62, Master of EUNICE
1865-66, Master NEW STATE
1877, built PHAETON, but soon sold her
Companies Associated With:
1851, U.S. Mail Line
1853, Wheeling Union Packer Line
At one time, Dean Line
Comments: In 1861 EUNICE was fLagship in U.S. fleet of 12 steamboats up
the Kanawha R.. This resulted in the Capt. being made Commodor
of the Kanawha fleet. He held this command unti transfered to
Tenn. river in summer of 1862.
Name: McMullan, O.H., of St.Louis in 1859/Parkersburgh, W. Va.
Died: 1859, Apr. 24, when the ST. NICHOLAS blew her boilers. See
Boats: 1859, Apr. 24th, ST. NICHOLAS
Comments: This captain's wife also died by drowning after the explosion
of the ST. NICHOLAS
Name: McPhail
Born: 1824, Inverness, Scotland. Died: 1885, Stillwater
Area: 1840s - 1870s, U. Miss. and St Croix Rs.
Comments: Was one of the first log pilots on the waters of the Miss.
and St. Croix Rs..
Source: ARTICLE
Name: McPherson, E. B.
Comments: Mentioned with his brother, below.
Name: McPherson, Henry
Boats: 1856-59 Capt. of MORNING STAR; 1862?-65, MARS; 1858-59, C. W. SOMBART;
1859?-61?, CARRIER; 1869, JENNIE LEWIS; 1865, TWILIGHT; ISABELLA;
1878, HEADLIGHT; 1882?, MARTHA STEPHENS; 1884? ROB ROY
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage
Name: McVay, James C. See Owners, M
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