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The Milwaukee Journal
Wednesday, April 29, 1936

           Lake Veteran Is Dead At 93
           
           CAPT. W. J. CARTER Sailed as 'Hand,'
           Skipper for 47 Yeas
           
           Son of a seafaring family and himself a
        sailor on the Great Lakes for 47 years, CAPT.
        WILLIAM J. CARTER, 93, died Wednesday morning
        at the home of his daughter, MRS. R. C. GETHER,
        4545 N. Bartlett av.  He had been in ill health
        for several months.
           CAPT. CARTER was born in Brownville, N.Y.
        When a lad of 17, he came to Milwaukee to visit
        relatives and remained here to spend his life
        on the lakes as "hand," officer and captain of
        many boats.
           It was in 1861 that he began sailing the lakes
        for wages.  He kept at it until his retirement
        in 1908.  CAPT. CARTER often said -- and his old
        sailing mates knew it for the truth -- "in the
        crews under me I don't believe there was ever a
        man suffered so much as a broken arm."
           What the captain called "the closest I ever
        came to a thrilling experience" took place in
        the fall of 1900 when the Typo, Milwaukee built
        schooner, was sunk off Presque isle in a collision
        with the J. B. Ketcham, downbound from Duluth with
        a cargo of grain, with CARTER as her captain.
           The red and green running side lights, required
        by maritime regulations, were alight on both boats
        but the fog hid the boats from each other.  The
        J. B. Ketcham rammed her prow into the side of the
        Typo which settled so fast that a dinghy being low-
        ered was sucked down with the schooner.  The skip-
        per, the cook, and three others were saved.
           Only the captain's daughter, MRS. GETHER, sur-
        vives him.  Funeral services will be held Thursday
        at the Philip J. Weiss undertaking rooms, N. Farwell
        av. and E. Kane place.  Burial will be in Forest 
        Home cemetery.
        
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