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

           [222-223]

                  CAPTAIN FRANK WEINHEIMER is in theprime of life, and with
               a good future before him if he is to be judged by his past
               record. He is a son of GEORGE B. and CAROLINE WEINHEIMER,
               the latter now deceased. GEORGE B. WEINHEIMER is a baker by
               trade, and now resides at Derby, N. Y. He was formerly a
               steward on the lakes. The other four children of his family
               are GEORGE, steward of the America for the seasons of 1896-
               97-98; EDWARD, mate of the Scranton for the seasons of
               1896-97-98; FREDERICK, second mate of the Lackawanna for
               1896-97-98, and WILLIAM, in the wholesale grocery establish-
               ment of Race & Kingsley — being all residents of Buffalo.
                  The subject of this sketch was born September 11. 1857,
               at Buffalo, where he attended school about three years. He
               then, when about nine years of age, moved to Milwaukee with
               his parents, in which city he also attended school, leaving
               school when twelve years of age. He began his sailing career
               out of the latter city with the well-known Goodrich Trans-
               portation line, in the season of 1871, as third porter on
               the steamer St. Joe, in the passenger trade between Chicago
               and Green Bay. After three months on the St. Joe, he was
               transferred to the steamer G. J. Truesdale, of same company,
               a passenger boat on the same route, on which he finished
               that season. During the early part of the following season
               he was in the Oconto, same line and route, plying also to
               St. Joe and Benton Harbor, and closed that season on the
               side-wheel steamer Manitowoc, running between Chicago and
               Manitowoc. He was next out of Milwaukee in the steamers
               Ironside, Lac La Belle, Bertchy and Messenger for several
               seasons, and then went into the service of the Black line on
               the steamers Amazon and Minneapolis for one winter and part
               of the summer following. Succeeding that service he was
               wheelsman of the Argonaut, consort of the steambarge Inter
               Ocean, for part of a season, was then on the Inter Ocean in
               the same capacity, subsequently returning to the Argonaut.
               They were owned by the Detroit Dry Dock Company.
                  The next service rendered by CAPTAIN WEINHEIMER was in
               the employ of the Western Transit Co., as wheelsman and
               second mate of the Fountain City for seven consecutive
               seasons. He was then second mate, respectively, of the
               steamers Idaho, Badger State and Colorado, and mate of the
               Saginaw Valley, Lackawanna and America. In the spring of
               1889 he began a period of three seasons as master of the
               steamer Russia, and in 1892 transferred to the Lackawanna,
               of which he has been master six consecutive seasons, includ-
               ing the season of 1897. The only accident of any importance
               that CAPTAIN WEINHEIMER has experienced occurred May 1,
               1891, while he was on the Russia, she colliding with the
               Canadian passenger steamer Celtic in a very dense fog off
               Morpeth, which is located ten miles from Rondeau Point, the
               Celtic, which was bound down with a cargo of corn, becoming
               a total loss, one of the employes on her, the chambermaid,
               being drowned. The Russia was bound up laden with coal and
               package freight; her bow was so badly damaged that she was
               run on the beach and later towed to Buffalo for repairs.
                  CAPTAIN WEINHEIMER was married at Buffalo, in 1888, to
               MISS ANNA BLACK, by whom he has three children: ETHEL, EDWIN
               and MADGE. The family reside at No. 452 Prospect avenue,
               Buffalo, N.Y. The Captain is a member of Erie Lodge No. 161,
               F. & A. M., of Buffalo, and of the Western New York Masonic
               Insurance. He has received his promotion on his own merits,
               and is one of the self-made men of the lakes.

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