Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Harvest Home OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 11211 DATE OF LOSS: 6 September 1876 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, 25 mi. off Grand Haven RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: J. M. Jones, 1862 OWNER(S): Capt. Crowl, Cleveland MASTER: Capt. James Niland TONNAGE: 325.65 gt DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: none Bound Chicago to Cleveland with scrap iron when she Sprung a leak and filled rapidly. The female cook was taken off by the passing schooner GRACE M. FILER. Capt. Niland and other members of the crew, for unknown reasons, preferred to row the schooner's yawl 25 miles to shore. Two of the crew would later insinuate that everything possible was not done to save the vessel and refused to sign ab "official" statement which was notarized at Muskegon. Oct. 6, 1871 - Collided with schooner H. S. FAIRCHILD off Long Point. FAIRCHILD quickly sank and was a total loss. Oct. 9, 1872 - Capt. Roce, master of the HARVEST HOME, fell to his death from an ore dock at Marquette. July 1874 - Ashore in Waiska Bay. Oct. 12, 1875 - Cries of distress coming from the HARVEST HOME were heard aboard the U.S. revenue cutter FESSENEN while proceeding up the St. Clair river. Investigation found that the female cook, Jennie Simmons, had been brutally beaten by JAMES GREEN, master of the HARVEST HOME, who was thoroughly intoxicated. She had been dragged across the deck by her hair and kicked until she was a mass of bruises. She pleaded to the mates for protection who, through cowardice or policy, only laughed at her. The woman was taken aboard the FESSENDEN and the schooner, and her master, allowed to proceed. Large repairs in 1875. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 6 September 1862 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, 1875, 1877 (losses 1876) Detroit Free Press, 9 October 1872 Buffalo Courier & Republic, 16 October 1875 Chicago Tribune, 9 September 1876 Cleveland Herald - 12, 13 & 20 September 1876