Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Copper Country Evening News Calumet, MI June 4, 1897 Old Lake Captain Dead. Benton Harbor, Mich., June 4. - CAPTAIN WILLIAM CARY, one of the oldest sailors of the great lakes, died at his home here, aged 79. He began sailing on Lake Ontario at 16, and followed the lakes forty-three years. He was master of the Pathfinder, the first three-masted schooner on the lakes. He was known as the "fighting commodore," because of his intense loyalty to the Union and readiness to resent any insult offered to the flag of the northern soldier. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Crawford Avalanche Grayling, MI June 24, 1897 Old Lake Captain Dead CAPTAIN WILLIAM CARY died Tuesday evening at 8:40 o'clock at his home in Benton Harbor, of an intestinal complaint, which had been troubling him for the past three years. CAPTAIN CARY was born in Utica, N.Y., in 1818. He was 16 years old when he shipped on a small schooner. In 1842 he took command of the schooner John Porter, running on Lake Ontario, where he remained a short time, and then took command of the barkentine Pathfinder, which is said to have been the first three- mast vessel of that style of rigging on the great lakes. The rigging was after the plans furnished by MR. CARY. He remained master of the Pathfinder for eight years when he bought an interest in the bark Republic, which he sailed for twelve years. Both vessels were the larg- est on the lakes at that time. Selling his interest in the Republic, he bought a half interest in the big schooner Mediator, which he sailed until 1867, when he retired from a sailor's life. At one time, while master of the Republic, he took a crew off of a dismasted schooner on Lake Ontario in a gale of wind and towed the disabled schooner into Oswego, to the astonishment of all vesselmen. CAPTAIN CARY leaves an aged widow and four daughters. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================