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Source: The Milwaukee Journal
        Saturday, April 8, 1944
        
                            Sea and Lake
                              Captain Dead
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                      Capt. Charles McCauley, 78, of
                    2459 N. Sherman blvd., who had
                    sailed the sea and the Great Lakes
                    since his early youth, died Friday
                    night at St. Mary's hospital.  Be-
                    cause he was one of the relatively
                    few men in the United States lic-
                    ensed as master and pilot for all
                    tonnages on all oceans and the
                    Great Lakes, he was recalled from 
                    retirement in 1943 to pilot naval
                    vessels constructed in Great Lakes
                    shipyards to New York.  Capt. Mc-
                    Cauley was born in Ireland in 1864.
                    He came to America at the age of 19.
                    In the last war he enlisted in the
                    navy at 53 as Michigan's oldest vol-
                    unteer.  As navigating officer of
                    a mine transport he crossed the
                    Atlantic 22 times and had several
                    encounters with submarines.
                      After several years as master of
                    oceangoing merchant vessels and oil
                    tankers he returned to the Great
                    Lakes.  His last command before re-
                    tirement in 1937 was as master of
                    the SS City of Milwaukee of the
                    Grand Trunk line.  He was a member
                    of the Shipmasters' association,
                    Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mil-
                    waukee Elks lodge.
                      Funeral services await arrival
                   of a son, Charles, from Tampico,
                   Mexico.  Other survivors are four
                   daughters, Gertrude, Manitowoc; Mrs.
                   Michael B. Jensen, Escanaba; Mrs.
                   John Kloss, Chicago, and Mrs. Frank
                   A. Madden, Indianapolis, Ind., a son,
                   William J., widely known Milwaukee
                   attorney; a sister, Mrs. M. A. Harlow,
                   Los Angeles, Calif., and a brother,
                   James, Detroit, also a Great Lakes
                   captain.
                   
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