Jack McCaffrey

MCCAFFREY

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/18/2014 at 09:44:56

EX-PILOT ON RIVER IS DEAD

Capt. Jack McCaffrey, former steamboat captain and a native of LeClaire, has died at his home, in Tallulah, La.

(Unreadable) University and the State University of Iowa.

Capt.McCaffrey operated steamboats on the Mississippi River as a young man and after the decline of packet transportation, operated boats on the Hudson, Tennessee and Cumberline rivers. With the advent of present day tows on the Mississippi, he returned as a master pilot with the Federal Barge Lines, retiring in 1945 in the rank of senior captain.

He is survived by his wife.

Services and burial will be held in Tallulah, La.

Source: Morning Democrat, 04 Sep 1957, p. 6.

LECLAIRE

Ex-Pilot On River Is Dead

Capt. Jack McCaffrey, former steamboat captain and a native of LeClaire had died at his home in Tallulah, La.

He was born in 1874 in LeClaire, and attended Northwestern University and the State University of Iowa.

Capt. McCaffrey operated steamboats on the Mississippi River as a young man and after the decline of packet transportation, operated boats on the Hudson, Tennessee and Cumberline rivers. With the advent of present day tows on the Mississippi, he returned as a master pilot with the Federal Barge Lines, retiring in 1945 in the rank of senior captain.

He is survived by his wife.

Services and burial will be in Tallulah, La.

Source: The Daily Times, Davenport, Ia., 04 Sep 1957, p. 12.