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The Advocate
Sturgeon Bay, WI
Saturday, July 13, 1901


                         An Old Lake Captain Dead.
                         
              CAPT. NATHAN W. KIRTLAND died in this city Tuesday
            afternoon of general debility after a lengthy illness.
            He was born in Connecticut in 1825, and has been a
            seafarer all his life. In 1863 he came to this county
            and located in Egg Harbor, and as soon as the Goodrich
            line was re-established between Chicago and Green Bay
            he commanded the steamer Backus, which was put on the
            route in the spring of 1866, after having received a
            general overhauling at the Bay during the preceding
            winter.
              The Backus was burned during the following winter,
            when the company put the old propeller Ottawa on the
            route, this craft being in charge of CAPTAIN KIRTLAND
            also. He sailed on various other boats of the line
            for a few years afterward, when he became the owner
            of a small schooner which was placed in the coast-
            wise trade, a business that he followed until the in-
            firmities of advanced age compelled him to retire
            from the water a few years ago.
              in 1872 CAPTAIN KIRTLAND was wedded to MISS EFFIE
            McKINLEY, of Ohio, who, by the way, is a first cousin
            to PRESIDENT McKINLEY. This union resulted in the
            birth of one son, FREDERICK, who with his mother
            survives.
              The remains were taken to Egg Harbor and interred
            in the town cemetery Thursday morning, the obsequies
            being largely attended by the friends and former
            neighbors.
              CAPTAIN KIRTLAND was a typical New Englander, who
            left his impress on the community in which he dwelt.
            He was withal honest and true to his family and 
            friends, and the man has yet to appear who can truth-
            fully say that CAPTAIN KIRTLAND ever knowing wronged
            or defrauded him.
            
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