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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 167]
         
         PETER J. SCHNEIDER, captain and pilot of the steamer "Robert
       Harris," which runs daily between Winona, Minn., and Fountain 
       City, is a resident of the latter place, having been born in 
       Germany on the 19th of March, 1830. He came to America in 1854, 
       first locating in Galena, Ill. He engaged on the Mississippi 
       River, first as deck hand, then as watchman, then as pilot, and 
       finally as captain. In 1860, he ran a boat between Galena and 
       Bellevue, Iowa, and afterwards was engaged as captain and pilot 
       with JOHN ROBINSON of Winona, on a boat which plied between Le 
       Claire, Iowa, and Ft. Snelling, continuing this for five years.
       He then was employed by the Diamond Joe Line, and in 1875 entered
       a partnership with WILLIAM HECK, and bought the steamer "Express,"  
      which they run daily between Winona and Fountain City as a passen-
      ger and freight boat. After running this for four years they bought 
      the steamer "Robert Harris," which they have run ever since. MR. 
      SCHNEIDER was married in Germany in 1851.
      
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