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

           926


              PETER G. MINCH, mentioned above as lost when the steamer
           Western Reserve went down, took charge of his father's business
           when the latter died. He was born January 9, 1842, at Vermilion,
           where he received his early education, and began sailing on the
           lakes when he was but fourteen years of age, being engaged thus
           in the summer season and attending Oberlin College in the winter
           season for three or four years. At the age of twenty-one he was
           in command of the schooner Burton Parsons, and afterwards of the
           schooners H. J. Webb and George H. Warmington. In 1880 he was
           made master of the A. Everett, the first steamer he commanded,
           and he continued on her until the steamer William Chisholm was
           built, in 1884, when he transferred to her, sailing her up to
           the last illness of his father. He was called home about a month
           before his father died, and took charge of his affairs. Soon
           afterward he built the steamer Philip Minch, which came out in
           1888, and is a fine, large boat; her length is 275 feet, beam 40
           feet, 8 inches; depth of hold 22 feet; her gross tonnage is
           1,988. He next built the steamer Western Reserve, which was con-
           structed by the Cleveland Ship Building Company, and was at the
           time the largest of her class on the lakes. Her keel was 300
           feet long. She sank August 30, 1892, the crew taking to the
           lifeboat, which remained afloat until the next morning, when it
           capsized in the breakers, and all were drowned but one man,
           HENRY STEWART, who lived to tell the tale. Among the lost were
           PETER G. MINCH, wife, son and daughter, and MRS. MINCH'S
           youngest sister, MRS. JACOB ENGLEBRY, and her twelve-year-old
           daughter. MR. ENGLEBRY is a merchant at Vermilion at the present
           time.
              PETER G. MINCH was married December 20, 1866, to MISS ANNA C.
           DELKER, daughter of HENRY DELKER, of Vermilion, Ohio, and they
           had seven children, as follows: One that died in infancy, PHILIP
           J., ANNA E., HATTIE S., GEORGE H., CHARLES H. and FLORENCE E.,
           the two last named being the ones drowned as above mentioned.
           MR. MINCH was a member of the Lake Carriers Association. He was
           uniformly successful in his business, and at the time of his
           death he was managing owner of the following vessels: Steamers
           Onoko, William Chisholm, J. H. Devereux, J. N. Glidden and A.
           Everett, and the schooners Sophia Minch, H. J. Webb, Fred A.
           Morse and George H. Warmington. Since then the Fred A. Morse was
           lost in a collision.
              The MINCH Transit Company was organized in August, 1893, for
           the purpose of managing the steamer I. W. Nicholas, the members
           of the company being PHILIP MINCH, J. B. GUTHRIE, WILLIAM
           GERLACH, ROBERT WALLACE, and H. D. COFFINBERRY, the latter of
           whom is president of the company, and PHILIP J. MINCH, secretary
           and treasurer. The Nicholas Transit Company manages all the rest
           of the vessels above named.

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