Identifier: historyofbrownco01mart (find matches)
Title: History of Brown County, Wisconsin, past and present
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Martin, Deborah Beaumont S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Subjects: Brown County (Wis.) -- History Brown County (Wis.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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times the river boats BayCity, Fountain City and Berlin City, under the management of E. A. Buck, dida thriving business. In February, 1862, the Appleton Belle a little witch of a steamer which usedto run on the old Fox between Fond du Lac and Green Bay turned rebel and wasburned on the Tennessee river on the approach of a Federal expedition. Captain Loy of De Pere was a successful steamboat captain and manager fora number of years, and built not a few of the old time river steamboats. He wasa popular captain in the steamboat line as well as in the army, and his boat,the Elwood Loy. was regarded as one of the smartest on the river. A muchliked clerk on the river boats was Reuben Doud, with his pseudo-comic coun-tenance who in after years became a wealthy lumberman. The lodging house at one of the sparsely populated river ports is thus de-scribed: The Captain would have been somewhat disappointed I reckon if hehad seen that night how we warmed ourselves thankfully by the big fireplace
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;^£^ ^^^^^^ \ LtK i1»K K>^ HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY 289 which flanked one side of the house, casting a fitful light over the bed of thehost and hostess, over the trundle bed of the little folks, over the dining table,cooking stove, the rifle on the mantel, the ladder that led to the upper floor, thewatch dog that dozed on the hearth. In 1867 the fine side wheelers Saginaw and George L. Dunlap, made dailytrips to Escanaba, where connection was made with the Lake Superior branchof the Northwestern Railroad, which had been built from Marquette to that port.The Rocket and Comet commanded respectively by Captain George Gaylordand Captain Martin Lake were the favorite route to Buffalo during the warmweather. Immediately after the close of the war, the steamer Swan, )3roving insuffi-cient for the mail service, the Sarah Van Epps was pressed into the service.This steamer was built at Sorensons shipyard on the west side of the river,and was familiarly spoken of by her crew and those acquai

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