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. =========================================================================== Sturgeon Bay Advocate Vol. 51, No. 43 Thursday, January 16, 1913 Capt. Gene Marquette Dies CAPT. GENE MARQUETTE, one of the best known skippers on the Great Lakes died at his home in Berlin, Wis., Wednesday, January 8, aged 55 years. Late in November CAPT. MARQUETTE laid up the steamer Minnesota of the Chicago and Duluth Transit Company at Manitowoc which he had com- manded for the past two years. He was a general favorite with the traveling public on the great lakes. He was in the city but a few days and hastened to his home in apparently good health owing to the dangerous illness of his wife. Since a lad he sailed the great lakes serving from a boy before the mast to the captain of one of the best boats on the lakes. For eight years he was captain of the Frank Vance owned in Milwaukee and one of the best boats of her time. For two years he was in the government ser- vice as commander of the Hyacinth but red tape was not to his liking and he returned to the lakes as captain of coarse freight and passen- ger boats. CAPT. MARQUETTE was born in Flint, Mich., in 1857, and began sailing on the Great Lakes at the age of sixteen. He is survived by a wife and two daughters, MYRTLE and MARIE MARQUETTE. -- Manitowoc News After laying up the Minnesota at Manitowoc CAPTAIN MARQUETTE went on the steamer Yale, which craft he laid up at Port Arthur, where he caught cold which developed into pneumonia on his return to his home at Berlin. CAPT. MARQUETTE was well known at this port, where he made many friends during the time that he was master of the government steamer Hyacinth. ========================================================================== 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/ ==========================================================================