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Sturgeon Bay Advocate
Vol. 51, No. 43
Thursday, January 16, 1913

              Capt. Gene Marquette Dies
              
              CAPT. GENE MARQUETTE, one of the best known
            skippers on the Great Lakes died at his home
            in Berlin, Wis., Wednesday, January 8, aged 
            55 years.
              Late in November CAPT. MARQUETTE laid up the
            steamer Minnesota of the Chicago and Duluth
            Transit Company at Manitowoc which he had com-
            manded for the past two years. He was a general
            favorite with the traveling public on the great
            lakes. He was in the city but a few days and
            hastened to his home in apparently good health
            owing to the dangerous illness of his wife.
              Since a lad he sailed the great lakes serving
            from a boy before the mast to the captain of
            one of the best boats on the lakes. For eight
            years he was captain of the Frank Vance owned
            in Milwaukee and one of the best boats of her
            time.
              For two years he was in the government ser-
            vice as commander of the Hyacinth but red tape
            was not to his liking and he returned to the
            lakes as captain of coarse freight and passen-
            ger boats.
              CAPT. MARQUETTE was born in Flint, Mich.,
            in 1857, and began sailing on the Great Lakes
            at the age of sixteen.
              He is survived by a wife and two daughters,
            MYRTLE and MARIE MARQUETTE.
            -- Manitowoc News
              After laying up the Minnesota at Manitowoc
            CAPTAIN MARQUETTE went on the steamer Yale,
            which craft he laid up at Port Arthur, where
            he caught cold which developed into pneumonia
            on his return to his home at Berlin. CAPT.
            MARQUETTE was well known at this port, where
            he made many friends during the time that he
            was master of the government steamer Hyacinth.
            
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