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Source: Marine Review (Cleveland, Ohio)
        January 3, 1884

                                  OBITUARY
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                     CAPTAIN GEORGE R. HAND died at his resi-
                  dence in Buffalo on Tuesday, January 1st, of
                  neuralgia of the heart and stomach, to which
                  he has been subject for some years, and which
                  finally ended in paralysis.  CAPTAIN HAND
                  was about 68 years old and has been indenti-
                  fied with marine matters since his boyhood,
                  and was perhaps as well known and highly
                  esteemed as any man on the lakes.  CAPTAIN
                  HAND was born in Westchester county, N.Y.,
                  April 9, 1816.  The family soon afterward
                  moved to Ohio and settled in Sandusky,
                  where GEORGE formed an attachent for the
                  lake, and at the age of seventeen he was
                  made master of a schooner.  From then un-
                  til he quit sailing in 1858, twenty-five
                  years, he acted as master of different sail
                  and steam craft plying between Oswego and
                  Buffalo and Chicago.
                     In 1858 CAPT. HAND removed from Sandus-
                  ky to Cleveland and engaged in the tug busi-
                  ness.  In connection with JOSEPH GREEN-
                  HAIGH, of Cleveland, CAPTAIN HAND bought
                  the tug E. S. Bemis, of Buffalo, and ran
                  her for a time himself.  He then built at
                  Cleveland the tug G. W. Gardner, which is
                  yet doing service at Chicago.  He commanded
                  her for a season, and then selling out his
                  interest in the Bemis, took the Gardner to
                  Buffalo in the fall of 1862, and since then
                  CAPTAIN HAND has been continuously in the
                  business at that port.  Soon after this he
                  formed a connection with CAPTAIN THOMAS
                  MAYTHAM, which resulted in the organization
                  of a tug association on January 3, 1867. 
                  At Sandusky CAPTAIN HAND was married to
                  MARY STANBERRY, who survives him and is 
                  also in her sixty-eighth year.  He also
                  leaves one daughter, Mrs. F. WILSON, of
                  Albion, N.Y., and two sons.  CAPTAIN HAND'S
                  son JAMES H. was killed by an explosion on
                  the tug R. R. HAFFORD at Buffalo in 1875.
                     Four of CAPTAIN HAND'S brothers like
                  himself, followed the sea, but one is now
                  alive - HENIAN HAND, resident in Sandusky,
                  CAPTAIN JAMES HAND, one of the brothers was
                  lost with all hands from the schooner C. C.
                  Griswold, on Lake Superior, in 1872.  His
                  two sons, CAPTAIN AUSTIN HAND and ELMER
                  HAND have been in the tug business at Buf-
                  falo, for years.  The funeral services will
                  be held today, and the remains will be con-
                  veyed to Sandusky.
                  
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