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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.
            
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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.
            
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