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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. ROBERT E. GAIN, master steam barge Powers, is a native of
     London, Can., and was born February 5, 1846; his parents came here
     when he was only three years of age, and he began sailing when only
     sixteen years of age, on the scow Reindeer, and afterward was on the
     schooner Somerset and the Hibbard, was mate on the propeller
     Ballentine and sailed master of the schooner H. W. Sage, of Bay City,
     and since 1880 has sailed the steam barge Powers.  CAPT. GAIN married
     Miss HARRIET L. BON, of Grand Haven, July 11, 1877; they have three
     children - CLINTON, ROBERT E., EDNA CLARE.

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