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Syracuse Post-Standard
October 14, 1906

        GEORGE GOBLE DEAD AT OSWEGO
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     Well-Known Shipbuilder and Mason of
              High Standing.

        Oswego, Oct. 14. - GEORGE GOBLE, an active participant in those
     scenes of the days of Oswego's maritime glory, when passage across the
     river might be had on the decks of vessels moored side by side, died
     here at 10 o'clock this morning in his eighty-seventh year.

        MR. GOBLE was born in Ireland, and came to America when he was 17
     years old and engaged in the occupation of shipbuilding. He was a
     thirty-third degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a charter member and
     one of the first directors of the Oswego Hospital Association, formed
     in 1861, and a charter member of the first lodge of Odd fellows formed
     in Oswego.

        In the early seventies MR. GOBLE took an active participation in
     Republican politics, and represented his ward in Common Council in
     1869, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1873, 1876 and 1877. He was also a member of
     the first department of Public Works ever appointed in Oswego.

        The GOBLE shipyards were the largest on the lakes between 1860 and
     1880, and at times over 300 carpenters were employed on the crafts in
     the process of construction.

        At his shipyards in 1874 was built the first tug ever built on Lake
     Ontario, the Alanson Sumner, and among the vessels he constructed are
     the W.I. Preston, Fitzhugh, Olive Branch, George Goble, Knight
     Templar, Nevada, Jamaica, West Side, Daniel Lyons, Leadville, J. Maria
     Scott, Titan, Bermuda and the William Sanderson. The Leadville was the
     last boat of any size built in Oswego.

        MR. GOBLE was very wealthy, and at one time was Oswego's richest
     citizen. The GOBLE Drydock today is one of the largest on the chain of
     lakes, and many vessels each year lay up in Oswego for repairs.

        When MR. GOBLE was alderman of the first ward in 1870 he was
     chairman of the Building Committee that had supervision of building
     the Oswego City Hall, and it was due to MR. GOBLE's effort that Oswego
     can today boast of a City Hall "built on honor."

        MR. GOBLE's charity was proverbial, and hundreds of families in
     Oswego can give material evidence of his kind heart. MR. GOBLE leaves
     surviving him the following sons and daughters: GEORGE W., NICHOLSON
     C., JOSEPH H., THOMAS C. and MRS. HENRY POST and MRS. JOHN H. QUIRK.
     The funeral will be held on Wednesday.

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