Lee County Iowa Genealogy

STEAMBOAT MEN
Montrose, Iowa
 

Compiled by Georgeann McClure  11/2007

 

“HISTORY OF THE PACKET LINES AND STEAMBOATS OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF STEAM BOATING ON THE MISSISSIPPI”

Capt. F. A. Whitney,
Centerville, Iowa

From the Saturday Evening Post,  Burlington, Iowa 

.  “Montrose has no bridge but has a steam ferry.  A ferry makes daily trips between Montrose, Iowa, and Nauvoo, Ill., as there is no railroad in Nauvoo.  The ferry does a fine business, and her captain and owner, John Rheimbold is very popular with the shippers and traveling public.”

 

Steamboatmen 

1850 Census for Mont Rose City Lee County, Iowa

Submitted by Paul Malloway

Name                                      occupation       birth state

Valentine Speake                    Pilot                Kentucky

George Farlee                          pilot                Ohio    

Daniel Baker                            boatman          New York

Isaac Williams                          boatman          Ohio

James Edmundson                  boatman          Illinois

Comelius Faulkner                   boatman          Indiana

Charles B. Morse                     Ship carpenter   New York

 

1850 Census Mont. Rose Township

Albert Baker                            ship carpenter   Pennsylvania

David Whaley                          boatman            New York

Fred Herwick                           boatman            Massachussets

W. H. Whaley                           boatman            New York

John Kites                                boatman            Kentucky

Comelius McIntosh                  boatman            Tennessee

Thomas Costly                        boatman           Illinois

Lewis Hampton                        boatman           Kentucky

William Griffey                         boatman           Kentucky

 

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