DATE: 1885-1886
CREATOR: Smith, Charles Allen (1863-1936)
SCOPE: This diary tells of deckhand Charles Allen Smith's experience working on the Kate Timmons, built in 1865. The particular voyage detailed in the diary is from the Ohio River (departure place unknown) to New Orleans, where Smith arrived on December 17, 1885, and spent about a week. Smith then went back up the Mississippi and Ohio to Vevay, IN, and was sent home on the Louisville short line to Pomeroy, Ohio, arriving January 14th, 1886. The crew of the Kate Timmons is listed as: Captain John Capehart, pilots Captain Dan de Woolf and William Hepenistall, mate Dave Hartley, watchman Albert Capehart, engineer George Capehart and James Starkey, firemen Cad Priece and Matt Blaine, and four deckhands and a woman cook.
EXTENT: 1 volume
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RESTRICTIONS: None
Preferred Citation note: The preferred citation for this collection is "From the collections of the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.”
