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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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          CAPT. GEORGE BEDFORD, is a native of Jefferson County, N.Y.,
       and was born May 12, 1838.  He came with his parents to Port
       Huron in 1849, and began sailing during his boyhood, and has
       followed the lakes for the past thirty years, and for the past
       twenty years has sailed as captain.  He sailed the scow Lizzie,
       the Spray, and was master of the propeller City of Port Huron,
       and built and sailed the Kittie, and now has command of the
       schooner Jessie.  In 1858, Capt. BEDFORD married Miss ELIZABETH
       HILLIER, a native of Canada.  They have three children - LEWIS,
       Captain on the Lakes; HORACE, in office Chicago & Grand Trunk
       Railroad; KITTIE, in school.
       
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