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Steamboat Building in Elizabeth, PA

A Journal of daily activities at the Elizabeth Marine Ways 1898 to 1925 

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List of River Men 


 

Wrecking Str Raymond Horner at the Walton Yard dock #6 West Elizabeth - May 2 - 1924

Wrecking Str Boaz same place June 9 - 1924

Wrecking Str Tom Dodsworth same place June 20 - 1924

Closed down at the Ways July 23 - 1924

Closed down at the Ways Feb 14 - 1925 and again through April 1925

Some names of men I worked with an(d) River wore out... Some Steamboat men that are gone:

Chas. (Jera) Lynch, carpenter. Killed at Conneleys crossing May 15, 1905

Henry Lambert, the best all around ship carpenter. Died Nov 6, 1911

Sam Craighead, killed on Jeffersiding RR  Dec 20, 1911

_ert Secrist, Steam boat cook ( died )  Jan 11, 1913

Stewart Pancost, skiff builder and ship carpenter  April 11, 1913

_est Bennett,  ship carpenter  Mar 7, 1908

Wm. J. Morgan  ship carpenter Jan 30, 1914

Steve Howard   Carp   July 1914

Kern Karr   Carp   Mar 12, 1915

John Kincade  Carp   Dec 10, 1915

Wm. Kennedy  Watchman drowned  Dec 18, 1915

O. B. (unckey) McDonald   Sept 7, 1916

Geo. W. Wright   Carp  Dec 21, 1916

David Kimes   Carp  Dec 21, 1916

Wm. McElravy  Calker  June 8, 1917

Geo. W. Wiegel  Calker  Feb 8, 1917

Jake Neel   Calker  May 13, 1917

Geo. Balsinger  Carp  May 18, 1917

Lawrence Curry  Carp  Aug 2, 1917

Wm. Campbell  Sep 7, 1917

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