Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: 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. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Hiram Pearson OTHER NAME(s): Commerce (renamed 1838) OFFICIAL NO: - DATE OF LOSS: 6 October 1849 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, at Calumet, ILL RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2-mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: at Sandusky - 1825 OWNER(S): Norton & Co., Chicago MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 96.56 t. DIMENSIONS: 71 x 21 x 8 CASUALTIES: 0 Went ashore "between the two Calumets" and immediately went to pieces. ======================================================================== Sources: Spirit of the Lakes, and Boatmen's Magazine, Vol. 2, 1849 Buffal Commercial Advertiser, 15 October 1849 Tonnage of the Lakes, 1849 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. I, p. 514 Great Lakes Maritime Database, Library of Michigan