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Source: The Milwaukee Journal
        September 19, 1904
        
                          PIONEER LAKE
                            CAPTAIN DEAD
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                  Gregory Hurson Passes Away at 57
                         After Long Illness
                         
                  Gregory Hurson, 57, one of the last
                of the old regime of captains and boat
                line managers, died at his home, 258
                Mason st. of diabetes, after a long ill-
                ness.  Mr. Hurson was forced by failing
                health to retire from business five
                years ago.  For the past two weeks his
                condition was critical and the end was
                not unexpected.  He was born Nov. 3,
                1847, at Burlington, Vt., and had gov-
                erned his own fortunes since he was 15,
                when he left home.  At 17 he was a cabin
                boy on one of the Goodrich boats running
                between Chicago and Milwaukee.  He cont-
                inued in the company's employ thirty
                years, rising to be general manager of
                the line.  He worked on all the old boats
                of the company and was at one time on
                the same craft with Capt. Frederick Pabst,
                the latter being second mate.  He left
                the Goodrich line ten years ago, estab-
                lishing the Hurson Transportation Co.,
                which continued in business until Sept.
                29, 1899, when it sold out to the Barry
                Transporation Co.  He lived at Kenosha
                for a number of years and married Miss
                Louise Elkin, a member of a well known
                family of that city.  His wife survives
                him, as well as a daughter, Miss Maud
                Hurson.
                  The funeral was from the residence
                Monday.  The Rev. C. L. Mallory, pas-
                tor of the Kenosha Episcopal church,
                officiated, and the body was taken to
                Kenosha for interment.
                
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