Daniel Lahey

     Daniel Lahey was born on 7 August 1871 at Menominee, Menominee Co, Michigan.² He married Lucille Campbell, daughter of William Campbell and Florence E. Scott, in 1913 at Marinette, Marinette Co, Wisconsin.¹ Daniel Lahey died on 20 October 1955 at Sunny View Sanitarium, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac Co, Wisconsin, at age 84; His Obituary [Manitowoc Herald Times - Two Rivers Reporter, Fri. Oct. 21, 1955, page M-11, col. 3]:
CAPTAIN LAHEY, 84, RETIRED SHIP MASTER, IS DEAD
Two Rivers - Capt. Dan Lahey, 84, of 2119 Jackson St., retired master of a number of vessels on the Great Lakes and for years part owner of freight-carrying steamers and schooners, died early Thursday night at the Sunny View Sanitarium at Fond de Lac where he had been a patient several years.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending contact with a son, Roy Lahey, first assistant engineer on the ore carrier Homer D. Williams of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. Services however will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Klein and Stangel Inc. Funeral Home here, the Rev. Richard J. Wichlet officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in Pioneers Rest Cemetery.
Captain Lahey was born at Menominee, Mich., on Aug. 7, 1871, a son of the late Edward Lahey and Ann Williamson Lahey. When he was 14 years old the family brought him to Two Rivers.
Continuing his education in the Two River public schools, he took his first post as a mariner as a mate on the tug Temple Emory of the Mann Bros. Co. of Two Rivers which was commanded by Captain Campbell and later by Capt. Louis Le Clair.
Several years later Mr. Lahey and James Tesser of Two Rivers purchased the steam barge M&M, a lumber carrier. It also carried freight between Two Rivers and Manitowoc for the Goodrich Transit Co.
Captain Lahey's next venture was he operation of the steam barge Welcome, a former passenger craft of the Hart Transportation Co. which was converted for freight conveyance. His partner in the operation was the late Dr. Joseph Eggers, Two Rivers dentist.
Disposing of the M&M, Captain Lahey with the late Simon Schneider, a local clothier, his brother Peter Lahey, also of Two Rivers, acquired the two-masted schooner Glen Cuyler which was engaged as a freight carrier, on the east and west shores of Lake Michigan.
Later, for a number of years Captain Lahey became master of the Sailor Boy, a passenger and freight carrier of the Hart Transportation Co. and then retired from the lakes after serving as captain on one of the U.S. Engineering Dept. about 1920. Returning to Two Rivers, Captain Lahey took a position as engineer at Two Rivers Municipal Hospital from which post he retired a number of years ago because of ill health.
Surviving him are his wife, the former Lucille Campbell, whom he married at Marinette in 1913, a daughter, Miss Clara Lahey of Norwalk, Conn., four sons, Roy, John and Donald of Two Rivers and George of Philadelphia, two sisters, Mrs. Fred W. Dicke of Two Rivers and Mrs. George Hollander of Manitowoc, two brothers, George and Peter Lahey of Two Rivers, and eight grandchildren.² He was buried at Pioneer Rest Cemetery, Two Rivers, Manitowoc Co, Wisconsin.²