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

        [117-118]

              CAPTAIN JOHN DUNSEITH has by industry and thrift acquired
           considerable tug property, and is one of the most popular
           masters in the tug business operating at Toledo harbor. He was
           born at Newmarket, Ontario, in the year 1854, a son of JAMES and
           ANNA (NEWBEON) DUNSEITH. After attending school in his native
           town until he was nine years of age, his parents removed to the
           United States and located at Toledo, Ohio.
              In the spring of 1865 CAPTAIN DUNSEITH commenced tugging as
           fireman on the Gallaher, and advanced rapidly. After five years,
           during which he sailed on different tugs in various capacities,
           he was promoted to the position of chief of the tug G. W.
           Wilson. This tug was owned by WILLIAM RICHARDSON, of Buffalo,
           afterward taken to Toledo, and CAPTAIN DUNSEITH remained
           captain of her nine years. In 1879 he was appointed master of
           the tug Dudley, owned by DAVIS BROTHERS, and sailed her four
           years.
              In the fall of 1883 CAPTAIN DUNSEITH purchased the tug Joseph
           S. Spinney, whichhe owned and sailed with great success; and
           was enabled in 1894 to purchase the tug Fannie L. Baker, which
           is sailed by CAPT. JAMES SKELDON, and the pleasure steamer
           Grandon, which he bought in the spring of 1897. He is a careful
           and successful lake captain, and the only mishap that enters
           into his record, and for which he was in no way at fault, was a
           collision with the steamer Reindeer, at the mouth of the Maumee
           river, while he was sailing the tug G. W. Wilson. The Wilson was
           sunk, and the captain of the tug Oscar Folsom rescued the crew.
              CAPTAIN DUNSEITH is starboard quartermaster of Harbor No. 43
           of the American Association of Masters and Pilots, and a Master
           Mason of Yondota Lodge, Toledo. His father, JAMES DUNSEITH, died
           May 16, 1868, from which date our subject lived with his mother
           until the time of her death, February 12, 1894. He now makes his
           home with his sister, at No. 921 Erie street, Toledo, Ohio.

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