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Syracuse (NY) Journal
Friday, 28 October 1910


           HENRY DAGGETT,
            LAKE CAPTAIN,
             BURNS IN HOME.
             
           OSWEGO, Oct. 28. - CAPTAIN HENRY DAGGETT,
         who years ago was one of the best known
         captains on this end of the Great Lakes,
         was burned to death at 11 o'clock last
         night in a fire which destroyed his farm
         house in New Haven, about ten miles east 
         of here. The blaze illuminated the eastern
         sky and was plainly visible to Oswego people
         as it burned the house and CAPTAIN DAGGETT.
           The fire was discovered by C. H. HYDE,
         who works in WOODWORTH's apple dryer, a
         quarter mile from the DAGGETT house. He
         called MR. WOODWORTH, MR. PRYOR and other
         neighbors and they rushed to the scene. MR.
         PRYOR smashed in the window of the bedroom
         where the captain slept, but the interior
         was like a roaring furnace. The captain
         usually lived alone.
           CORONER VOWINKEL was summoned and quickly
         reached the scene by auto, and as soon as
         the fire was out search for the body was
         begun. 
           The charred trunk, the head, legs and
         arms having been burned off, was found in
         the cellar under the sitting room some
         little distance from the bedroom. It was
         taken to WHITNEY's undertaking rooms in
         New Haven in a sack. CAPTAIN DAGGETT re-
         ceived a stroke of paralysis a year ago,
         since which time he had been quite feeble.
         It is the belief that he accidentally
         overturned a lamp and in trying to get
         out of the house fell a victim to the
         flames. He was a Mason and arrangements
         were being made to take him to the Masonic
         Home at Utica. He is survived by a sister,
         MRS. SNOW.
           CAPTAIN DAGGETT in the early *** repre-
         sented Oswego in the State Legislature.
         He sailed the steamer Alanson Sumner and
         was commodore of the fleet of vessel
         captains who sailed boats for Penfield
         & Lyon in the palmy days of Oswego's
         lake commerce.
         
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