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Racine Journal-Times
September 21, 1936


              Veteran Lake Captain Dies;
                Saw Many Maritime Changes.
                
              Milwaukee, Sept. 21 - (AP) - 
            CHARLES H. HUBBARD, 70-year-old retired
            superintendent of the Milwaukee lighthouse
            district and Great Lakes captain, died
            yesterday following an operation several
            days ago.
              During his 44 years in the United States
            lighthouse service, almost 18 of them as
            head of the twelfth district, CAPTAIN
            HUBBARD saw many a maritime evolution.
              A native of Toledo, Ohio, he retired
            last Feb. 1. He became ill recently while
            on a leisurely lake cruise after inspect-
            ing a new lighthouse tender being built
            at Bay City, Mich., to replace the Sumac
            which he had commanded from 1903 to 1918.
              Leaving school at 16 to go to sea,
            CAPTAIN HUBBARD rose rapidly to quarter-
            master and at 20 years of age became the
            youngest commissioned captain on the Great
            Lakes. In 1892, he gave up commercial
            sailing and captaincy of a passenger boat
            to enter the government service.
              CAPTAIN HUBBARD enjoyed telling about 
            the steam-driven fog-horns of the old days
            and how frequently it took 30 to 60 minutes
            to get up steam to run them. Through the
            years he saw the old type fog horn supplanted
            by those sounded by compressed air and later
            by the electrically driven horns in use to-
            day and the more modern radio beacons.
              On May 1, 1918, CAPTAIN HUBBARD was ap-
            pointed head of the twelfth district with
            headquarters at Milwaukee.


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