Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2022 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Advocate, Sturgeon Bay, WI Saturday, 11 June 1904 CAPT. CHAS. E. KIRTLAND, one of the oldest steamboat masters on the lakes, died Sunday morning at his home in Fernwood, town of Lake, near Milwaukee, aged 77 years. He had been a vessel master for over forty years, and was captain of nineteen different steamers, but never lost a life on any of his craft, or cost the insurance companies a dollar in dam- age to vessel or cargo. He was born in West- brook, Conn., Dec. 18, 1826, and his early seafaring experience was on the North Atlan- tic. In 1863 he moved to Milwaukee, and since that time, until seven years ago, when he re- tired, was continuously in command of steamers. He had eleven different vessels of the Good- rich fleet. For several years he was master of the wrecking tug Leviathan. He was married in 1850 to MISS EMELINE BECKWITH, who died two yeara ago. He is survived by two daugh- ters, the Misses JOSEPHINE and MARY KIRTLAND, who lived with him at his home, and a brother, CAPT. WEBSTER P. KIRTLAND, of Little Sturgeon. CAPT. KIRTLAND had his leg broken in March by a fall on the ice near his home, and the bone refused to heal, Complications set in and for thirteen weeks until his death the aged cap- tain was unable to leave his bed. ===============================================================================