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Source: Oswego Times and Express
        August 7, 1884
        
                           OBITUARY
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                  DEATH OF CAPTAIN H. N. THROOP
                  
            A dispatch was received here this morning 
          by W.B. Phelps from T. Scott Ledyard, Williamson, 
          N.Y. stating that Captain H. N. Throop died at 
          his home in Pultneyville yesterday and that the 
          funeral will take place there Saturday at 3 p.m. 
          Capt. Throop has been long and favorably know on 
          Lake Ontario and the river St. Lawrence. He was 
          we think, a native of Pultneyville, Wayne Co., 
          where he was born about the year 1810. He was the 
          son of Capt. Samuel Throop, one of the early set-
          tlers of that place and commenced his career as 
          a boy sailor at the age of ten years, and was em-
          ployed on schooners as hand before the mast, mate 
          and master. In 1830 he sailed the little schooner 
          Enterprise which suddenly sunk under him about 
          four miles below Big Sodus Bay, five or six miles 
          from the shore. He was the only one saved, which 
          was done by floating planks and swimming ashore, 
          which under the circumstances was considered a 
          heroic effort and a narrow escape with his life.
                  
            In 1833 he sailed the schooner Williams and 
          other schooners afterwards. Commencing about the 
          year 1836, he sailed respectively the following 
          steamers: Oneida, Telegraph, Express, Rochester, 
          Ontario and the Canadian steamer Europa until 1850, 
          when the property of the Ontario and St. Lawrence 
          steamboat company was divided and the Ontario steam-
          boat company organized. He was appointed superinten-
          dent of the latter company and acted in that capacity 
          until the sale of their boats to the Canadian Inland 
          Navigation Company in 1867. He built and owned a num-
          ber of schooners, among which is the schooner Rival, 
          which is still in commission.
                  
            In early life Capt. Throop learned the trade of 
          ship carpenter and turned his attention to the modeling 
          of vessels and naval architecture, in which he greatly 
          excelled. He made the moulds and model of the steamer 
          Ontario in 1847-8 and superintended her construction 
          at Clayton. She came out July 6, 1848 and he commanded 
          her for many years as the crack boat of the line. Captain 
          Throop was a thorough lake sailor strong in his convictions, 
          a man of intelligence and undoubted integrity. Although 
          reticent and unassuming in his deportment, he will long 
          be remembered, as one of the ablest of our steamboat com-
          manders during the palmy days of the celebrated American 
          line of America steamers.
                  
            In 1867 Capt. Throop retired with a competency to his 
          pleasant home in Pultneyville and has since busied himself 
          with building sail vessels and steam and small yachts.
          
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