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The Advocate
Sturgeon Bay, WI
Saturday, February 4, 1899


                            Another Old-Time Captain Dead.
                            
              CAPTAIN CHARLES BENNETT, who sailed the great lakes for
            forty-four years and was probably one of the best-known
            lake captains, died at his home in Lasalle, Monroe county
            on Monday of last week, aged nearly 91 years.
              During his career as lake captain he was connected with
            many enterprises. He carried the strap rail used on the
            old Adrian railroad between Monroe and Adrian, now the
            Lake Shore; also the stone used in the locks in Swan creek,
            near Toledo. In 1844 he made a trip from Ogdensburg, N.Y.
            to Chicago with a cargo of butter, eggs, apples and oats,
            on which a profit of over $40,000 was made, more than is
            now made in three years of navigation. In 1860 he explored
            Isle Royale, in the Lake Superior district for copper with
            the schooner Dream of Cleveland, and afterwards sank a
            shaft that was worth over $100,000. In later years he con-
            ducted a pleasure resort near Flint, where he was well known
            for his generosity and sailor oddities. Fifteen years ago
            he retired to his farm in Lasalle, where he has resided
            continuously. Three years ago CAPTAIN BENNETT and his sister,
            who had been separated since infancy, met. They had not seen
            each other in over seventy years.
            
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