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

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           LOUIS REIF. Thirty years have been spent by LOUIS REIF, of
        Cleveland, on steam vessels on the Great Lakes, and all but two
        years as engineer. He was born in 1847 in Bavaria, Germany, his
        parents moving to the United States two years later, and located
        in New Orleans, moving from there to the primitive State of
        Missouri, where he lived for three years as one of its pioneers,
        and at the age of nineteen moved to the lake region, and spent two
        years as tug fireman, after which he secured engineer's papers
        and sailed as an engineer. Among the boats with which he has been
        connected are the tugs Volunteer, Alida, Levi Johnson, Abe E.
        Nelson, Shoo Fly, L. P. Smith, Sickerson, Maggie Sanborn, H. N.
        Martin, Ida Simms, Helene, R. K. Hawley, Florence N., C. R. Edson
        and F. E. Smith; also the river tugs Constitution, Annie Dobbins,
        E. N. Peck and George M. Brady; the passenger steamer Charles
        Hickox, the wrecking steamer Magnet, the barge Morning Star, and
        the yacht Herald. He is now chief engineer, as well as a member, of
        the firm of Crangle & Co., having charge of the machinery of all
        the boats belonging to the firm.
           MR. REIF married MISS MARY NORMAND, of Cleveland, Ohio; their
        living children are ELIZA MAY, JULIUS AUGUSTUS, ESTELLE, GEORGE
        ALBERTICE, JAMES HENRY, JOSEPH, MARY ADELINE, MARY ELLEN, MAUD
        MARGARITE; EDITH and ALICE MAYBELL are deceased.

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