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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. CUMMING S. GEEL, Port Huron, is a native of St. Clair County,
     and was born in the town of Port Huron December 6, 1836.  His father,
     JAMES M. GEEL, was a native of Detroit, and his mother, LYDIA PARMALEE
     GEEL, was a native of Rochester, N.Y.  CAPT. GEEL began sailing on the
     schooner T. G. Scott during boyhood, and has been in the marine ser-
     vice twenty-eight years.  In 1865, was Captain of the schooner Union;
     in 1873, he went with the Anchor Line, and sailed master for that line
     seven years.  Then he superintended the building of the steam barge
     Fred McBrier, and since she was completed he has sailed master of her.
     In 1863, he married Miss LYDIA HITCHINGS, of New Brunswick.  They have
     five children - HARRIET, BLANCHE, LULU E., GUY G., HOWARD, HERBERT S.

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