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Alice Stafford
package steamer

Wooden steamboat built in 1882 at Benton Harbor by J.H. Randall for Graham and Morton Trans. Co. Built as the Lora or Laura.
Renamed Alice Stafford, 1897; Manistee, 1905.

    Owners:
  • Manistee Transit Co.
  • Farrisey & Marron
  • W.M. Kellie
  • Muskegon Trans. Co
  • Nessen Transportation Co.
  • Chicago, Racine & Milwaukee Line
  • Northern Michigan Transportation Co.
  • J.H. Graham
  • John Marron
  • F.W. Wheeler & Co.
  • Wm. E. Fitzgerald
  • E.W. Seymour
  • Crosby Transportation Co.
    Captains:
  • Simon Lamereaux
  • H. Bennett
  • Frank Richardson
  • W.E. Stufflebeam
  • George Johnson.
On June 28, 1914, she burned at Grand Rapids, Mich.

City of Marquette
package steamer

built: 1890 at Manitowoc, Wis. 341 gross tons, sold Feb. 16, 1893.

Osceola
package steamer

built: 1882 at Bay City, Mich., 193' long, 34' beam, 980 gross tons.  Owned by the Delaware and Lackawana system, leased to the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan.

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