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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

           [260-261]

               GEORGE FRITSCHE, chief engineer of the elegant steel steamer
            Chemung for the seasons of 1896-97, is a son of FERDINAND and
	    SUSSANNA (COOK) FRITSCHE, Germans, the former a native of
	    Saxony, the latter of Bavaria.
	       FERDINAND FRITSCHE was by trade a tailor; emigrating to
	    America in 1853, he located at Tonawanda, N.Y., where he still
	    resides. Besides the subject of this sketch, he has three
	    children, FERDINAND W., in the grain business in Minnesota;
	    JOHN E., on the board of trade at Minneapolis, Minn., and
	    AUGUST, in the employ of the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil
	    Company at Chicago.
	       GEORGE FRITSCHE was born at Tonawanda in 1859 and there
	    attended school. Like many other marine engineers, he never
	    regularly learned his trade at any one machine shop, but
	    brought himself to his present position by his own industry and
	    energy. He worked in various shops about the country, and in
	    1880 he entered the lake service, becoming engineer of the tug
	    Rambler at Duluth, and after two seasons on her served for
	    three seasons in the same berth on the tugs Pacific and Oneida,
	    also of Duluth. During the season of 1884 he was second engi-
	    neer of the D. M. Wilson, and in 1885of the John B. Lyon and
	    Dean Richmond. He continued on the latter boat through the
	    season, and was also with her in the same capacity during the
	    winter of 1886-87, making trips between Milwaukee and Grand
            Haven. In 1887 he accepted second engineer's berth on the
            steamer Starrucca, remaining thereon until, in November, 1888,
            she went ashore in a snowstorm near Grand Marie, Lake Superior,
            where she became a total loss.
               During the season of 1889 MR. FRITSCHE was second engineer
            of the Rochester, and chief of the propeller Avon; in 1890 he
            was chief of the Portage; 1891-92 of the H. J. Jewett;
            1893-94-95 of the Tioga, and during the seasons of 1896-97 of
            the Chemung.
               MR. FRITSCHE is a member of the Marine Engineers Beneficial
            Association. He is a single man, and resides with his parents
            at Tonawanda, New York.

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