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

  86-87

        ROBERT CHESTNUT, JR., son of ROBERT and ELIZABETH (CARR) CHESTNUT,
     was born at New York City, October 3, i861, and when a year old his
     parents moved to Oswego, N. Y. , where he attended school until he
     was twelve years of age, when he went to California with his father,
     where they remained two years, after which they returned to Oswego,
     where the subject of our sketch remained until 1877, when he went to
     Chester, Penn., and served a four years' apprenticeship in the shop
     of JOHN ROATH, machinist. He subsequently went to Fulton, N. Y., and
     spent a year in a machine shop there, then back again to Oswego,
     where he was employed in the Kingford Iron Manufacturers' shops until
     the spring of 1884, at which time be began steamboating, as assis-
     tant, part, and chief engineer for the remainder of that season on
     the steamer Ontario. In 1885 he served as second engineer on the St.
     Lawrence, plying on the St. Lawrence river, and the following season
     in a like capacity on the Wocoken (which steamer was lost on Lake
     Erie in 1893), leaving her, before the close of the season, to enter
     a machine shop at Syracuse, N. Y., where he remained until the season
     of 1889, when he again commenced steamboating as second engineer to
     DAN DOYLE, on the Hecla, remaining on her for that and part of the
     season of 1890, when he was appointed chief engineer of the W. L.
     Frost, of the Ogdensburg Transportation Company, and after two sea-
     sons on her was assigned to the H. R. James, spending three seasons
     on her as chief, and then transferred to the F. H. Prince, of which
     he has been chief ever since, including the season of 1897, making
     seven consecutive seasons in the employ of the Ogdensburg Transpor-
     tation Company, during which time, or previous thereto, he has never
     been in a collision or wreck.
        MR. CHESTNUT'S father was for many years an engineer of salt-water
     steamers, and during the war was engineer of the Sachem (which was
     chartered by the government for service during the conflict), and is
     now local boiler inspector of steamboats at Oswego, New York.
        In July, 1882, MR. CHESTNUT wedded Miss BERTHA M. PRATT, a daugh-
     ter of GEORGE PRATT, a merchant of Pulaski, N. Y. They have two
     children, MAUDE and HENRY, aged fourteen and ten years, respectively.
     He is a member of the Syracuse Lodge No. 109, Cynosure Encampment No.
     14, and Canton No. 6, Syracuse I. O. F., also Acacian Lodge No. 705,
     Ogdensburg, F. & A. M. The family residence of MR. CHESTNUT is at
     No. 89 Knox street, Ogdensburg, Ne

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