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Marine Record - Cleveland, OH
July 27, 1899

        While riding on his bicycle last Friday, ALEXANDER MCMASTER
     was knocked down by a runaway horse and died within a few minutes
     after reaching the hospital. Capt. McMasters, as he was generally
     called, was born at Fort Erie, just across the Niagara, and though he
     spent the first twenty years of his life in Canada, he removed to
     Buffalo in his young manhood. From 1862, when he entered the King Iron
     Works, down to his death, he had been identified to an increasing
     extent with commercial interests. For eleven years he was chief
     engineer of the Commercial line of steamers. In 1883 he was appointed
     United States local inspector of boilers for the district of Buffalo.
     President Harrison appointed him United States supervising inspector
     of steam vessels in the Ninth district in 1889. This position he held
     until 1894, and for the last six years he was vice-president of the
     Union Bank. In all of these positions, public and private, Mr.
     McMaster served faithfully. He was a genial and popular citizen, whose
     death, under such circumstances, is deeply regretted. The religious
     services were conducted by Rev. Charles F. Wrigley, pastor of St.
     Mary's-on-the-Hill. DeMolay Lodge No. 498, Free and Accepted Masons,
     conducted the services at the grave. The pall bearers were Horace A.
     Noble, Joel H. Prescott, Edwin Leslie, Charles H. Avery, James Kerr,
     H. A. Menker, William D. Dougherty, Edward Brown. Many beautiful
     floral emblems from various societies, of which Capt. McMaster was a
     member were sent.

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