The Pittsburgh Gazette Times dated 5May1909, p3.
Much of my time in recent days has been spent searching Newspapers.com. Simple search requests on the names of Georgetown captains and their steamboats have provided a substantial amount of information. And by no measure do I qualify as an advanced researcher. Anyone could follow the movement of a packet or the actions of a captain. While researching the str Mollie Ebert , I copied 23 articles from 10 newspapers covering a period of five years. Advanced searches from other geographic regions will provide more. Depending on the paper and the specific columns, such as River News in the Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, information such as arrival and departures and the cargo and number of passengers carried are documented.
The article above is a general history of the steamboat era. Taken from The Pittsburgh Gazette Times dated 5May1909 the article is a tribute to the men who steamed on the Ohio River. Two of the portraits are Georgetown captains: Jacob and Adam Poe. Two partial columns of print are devoted to Georgetown and the men who worked the river from there. Capt Thomas S Calhoon is described in detail. Others such as George W Ebert, Standish Pepard, Thomas Poe, Richard Calhoon, George Laughlin are documented in a phrase. Even Capt John S McMillin was included with Georgetown even though he had moved to Grandview Ave in Pittsburgh in 1857.
One can never brag too much about Georgetown. Or can they?
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