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Marine Review, Cleveland
October 26, 1893

                       Eight Vessel Masters Among the Lost.
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               CAPT. GEORGE W. STODDARD of the Dean Richmond was fifty-
            four years of age and had been sailing from boyhood.  He was
            for eleven years in the Erie railway line between Toledo and
            Buffalo, and was master of different boats.  He was in the
            Wabash line steamer John C. Gault for five years, and was
            superintendent of construction and repairs of the line.  He
            was in the passenger steamer Mascot for one season, between
            Toledo and Point au Pelee, and owned an interest in her.
            Thereafter he was in the Vermont line steamer Newburg.  The
            next two seasons he was in the big steamer Northern Night,
            of the Northern steamship line, between Buffalo and Duluth.
            He then became master of the passenger steamer Shrewsbury,
            between Buffalo and Niagara Falls.  Last season he sailed
            the steamer B. W. Blanchard, and this season the Dean Rich-
            mond.  He commanded lake steamers for twenty years in all.
            He was president of Toledo lodge, Shipmaster's Association.
            
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            Ludington Daily News
            17 October 1998
            
            (extracted)
               On her last voyage the Dean Richmond left Toledo at 2 p.m.
             Friday, Oct. 13, 1893, bound for Buffalo with a full load
             of package freight.  In command of the vessel was CAPT.
             GEORGE W. STODDARD of Toledo, who intended to retire at the
             end of the season.
        
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