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

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        CAPT. FRANK N. DOWNER is a native of Michigan, and was born in the
    town of Washington, Macomb County, July 17, 1835.  The following year
    his parents came here.  From early boyhood his life has been spent on
    the water, his earliest recollections of it was sailing on a slab on
    the river.  When eleven years old, in 1847, he went on the Grace
    Amelia, Capt. JOHN DILLON, and in 1852, when only seventeen years old,
    he was Captain of the Hawk, and next sailed the Esculapius and the Lady
    Jane.  In 1855, 1856 and 1857, he was master of the Euphemia, then the
    Henry Young, the Curlew, E. M. Carrington, Lilly May and the Skinner.
    In 1872, he built the Dunford, and since then has sailed as master and
    part owner of her.  CAPT. DOWNER has been in the marine service for
    thirty-six years, and for more than thirty years has sailed as master,
    and has had a large practical experience.  He has held the office of
    Tax Collector.  CAPT. DOWNER was united in marriage July 18, 1860, to
    Miss BRITANNIA JEX, a native of London, Canada.  They have had eight
    children, only two of whom survive -- CHARLIE JEX and FRANK NELSON.

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