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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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              LAWRENCE G. GEBHARD, the present chief engineer of the
           Spaulding Machine Screw Company, on Kensington avenue, Buffalo,
           N. Y., is a son of CAPT. NICHOLAS GEBHARD, whose biography
           appears above. Our subject was born at Buffalo, October 6, 1860,
           and received his education at the public schools and at
           Canissius College, Washington street, Buffalo. For a short
           period in his younger days he was employed as clerk in a grocery
           store, and then spent about five years learning the machinist's
           trade at the King Iron Works, Buffalo. For three months during
           the season of 1880 he was oiler on the steamer Boston. During
           the first two months of 1881 he was oiler on the steamer
           Montana, and finished that season and the succeeding one as
           second engineer of the same steamer. His next position was that
           of second engineer of the steamer Milwaukee, on which he sailed
           for a couple of seasons. In the spring of 1885 he fitted on the
           steamer Colorado and was her chief engineer for that season.
           He was then second on the steamer Commodore for a season and a
           half, and remained ashore the next two years, being engaged
           in the grocery business. In 1889-90 he was chief engineer of the
           Empire State, which later sank off Point Sauble, loaded with 875
           tons of copper. During the seasons of 1892-93 he was chief
           engineer of the steamers Milwaukee and Northern Light, respect-
           ively, and for about three months in 1894 he was employed as
           foreman in John Mahar's machine shop. From there he went to the
           King Iron Works and remained until April, 1895, when he became
           chief engineer for the Spaulding Machine Screw Company, a
           position he has held up to the present time.  MR. GEBHARD has
           been a member of the M. E. B. A., No. 1, fifteen years, and was
           a charter member of Keystone Lodge No. 50, and National
           Association of Stationary Engineers.
              MR. GEBHARD was married in Buffalo, January 17, 1884, to
           CECELIA LOGEL, and they have two children: GERTRUDE, now (1898)
           aged twelve years, and EDITH aged eight years. The family
           residence is at No. 259 Riley street, Buffalo, New York.

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