Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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. =========================================================================== Source: The Milwaukee Journal Wednesday, February 16, 1944 MOODY, LAKES SKIPPER, DEAD -------------------------- Veteran of 66 years of Inland Sailing Dies Here at Age of 93. Capt. C. E. MOODY, 93, who had sailed the Great Lakes for 66 years, was found dead in his bed Wednes- day by attendants at the Haven Home for Convalescents, 2818 W. Highland av., where he had been with a broken hip for eight months. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1850, CAPT. MOODY came to Milwaukee when he was 7. His father, CAPT. JAMES MOODY, was also a Great Lakes shipmaster. The boy began to sail when he was 14. He first worked for several tug lines and skippered some wrecking tugs, but then transferred to the steamship business. Most of that time he was employed by the Goodrich line. He was considered an expert on whale- backs. His last ship was the whaleback Christopher Columbus, which he captained for 26 years. The Chris- topher Columbus was a passenger boat and ran between Chicago and Milwaukee, carrying approxi- mately 2,500 persons each trip. Those were the days when the ar- rival of the big old steamer was a daily summer event. Crowds of peo- ple lined the banks to wave to those on the ship as it lumbered up the Milwaukee river behind a saucy tug. CAPT. MOODY often bragged that he had transported more people than any other shipmaster in the world. He was once described as having the "height of Uncle Sam and the face of the American eagle." In 1930 he retired from active service, only a year before the Christopher Columbus, on which he had sailed 26 years, laid down her anchor permanently at Manitowoc. But he didn't lose his interest in lake navigation, keeping a complete chart of lake steamers and tugs. Nearly every day the old captain went down to the docks. He belonged to Independence lodge No. 8, F. and A. M., was an honorary member of the Old Set- tlers club and was a member of the International Shipmasters' associa- tion, lodge No. 6. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. FLORENCE; his son, HENRY J., and a sister, Mrs. CLARA JOHNSTON, Sparta, Mich. ===========================================================================