E.J. Lancaster

LANCASTER, FEDDERSON, BISSICK, HITCHCOCK, SNOW

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/10/2014 at 11:16:15

Capt. Lancaster, Le Claire, Dead

VETERAN RIVER PILOT DIES AFTER ILLNESS OF A DAY

Takes Ill While at Work on the Steamer Marquette -was sixty eight Years Old

LECLAIRE , IA. May 9- Captain E. J. Lancaster, river pilot for forty years, died at his home here at 10 o’clock this morning after an illness of a day’s duration. He was taken ill while at work as a pilot on the steamer Marquette of the Pierson Sand & Gravel Co., Moline , yesterday, and was brought to his home in Le Claire last night. He was 68 years old.

Captain Lancaster was born in Dekalb county Ill. , June 23 1848, but spent most of his life here. His wife, five daughters, Mrs. John Fedderson of Chicago; Mrs. Wm. Bissick of St. Louis; Miss Alice, Mrs. Clarence Hitchcock and Mrs. Theodore Snow of Le Claire; three sons, Lee and Harold of Le Claire; and Harry of St. Louis; a sister, Mrs. Eliza Stone of Le Claire and a brother, Captain B.P. Lancaster of Le Claire survive.

Captain Lancaster at the beginning of the civil war enlisted in Company C. eighth Iowa cavalry and served through the war. He was a member of Snow Lodge of the Mason of Le Claire and of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Source: Davenport Times, Davenport, Ia., 10 Ma 1914, p.3.

*Capt E.J. Lancaster, 23 Jun 1846 - 09 May 1914.