Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Source: The Milwaukee Journal Saturday, April 8, 1944 Sea and Lake Captain Dead ----------------- Capt. Charles McCauley, 78, of 2459 N. Sherman blvd., who had sailed the sea and the Great Lakes since his early youth, died Friday night at St. Mary's hospital. Be- cause he was one of the relatively few men in the United States lic- ensed as master and pilot for all tonnages on all oceans and the Great Lakes, he was recalled from retirement in 1943 to pilot naval vessels constructed in Great Lakes shipyards to New York. Capt. Mc- Cauley was born in Ireland in 1864. He came to America at the age of 19. In the last war he enlisted in the navy at 53 as Michigan's oldest vol- unteer. As navigating officer of a mine transport he crossed the Atlantic 22 times and had several encounters with submarines. After several years as master of oceangoing merchant vessels and oil tankers he returned to the Great Lakes. His last command before re- tirement in 1937 was as master of the SS City of Milwaukee of the Grand Trunk line. He was a member of the Shipmasters' association, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mil- waukee Elks lodge. Funeral services await arrival of a son, Charles, from Tampico, Mexico. Other survivors are four daughters, Gertrude, Manitowoc; Mrs. Michael B. Jensen, Escanaba; Mrs. John Kloss, Chicago, and Mrs. Frank A. Madden, Indianapolis, Ind., a son, William J., widely known Milwaukee attorney; a sister, Mrs. M. A. Harlow, Los Angeles, Calif., and a brother, James, Detroit, also a Great Lakes captain. ===========================================================================