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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

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                  MYRON K. CHAMBERLIN, master of the  schooner Marcia, was
               born in St. Clair, Mich., in 1870, the son of John CHAMBER-
               LIN, a prosperous farmer. His early life was spent in school
               and on his father's farm, and he commenced sailing in 1889.
               He was seaman before the mast in the schooner Reindeer,
               until the steamer Oscar T. Flint came out, when he went as
               deckhand on her. He finished the season as watchman in the
               steamer J. C. Gilchrist. He spent the season of 1890 in the
               Oscar T. Flint and the John M. Nicol, and as wheelsman in
               the C. W. Elphicke, during 1891, and in 1892 until the W. H.
               Gilbert came out. Then he became wheelsman in the Gilbert.
               In 1893 he held a similar position in the steamer Maruba,
               and the year following he was second mate of the Maritana.
               In 1895 he was second mate of the Mariposa, and during 1896
               and 1897 he was mate of the same fine steamer, and in the
               spring of 1898 he was appointed master of the steel schooner
               Marcia, of the Minnesota Steamship Company.
                  In the fall of 1897 CAPTAIN CHAMBERLIN sighted the wreck
               of the Idaho, off Long Point, and assisted Capt. F. Root and
               his brave crew in rescuing the two men, the sole survivors
               of a crew of twenty-one.

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