Captain Marshall Stone
Captain Marshall Stone, shipmaster, sailing out of West Bay City, was born March, 15, 1849, in Froomfield, Ont., on the St. Clair River, the fourth son of William and Jane Stone, the former of whom was born near Hull, England, and the latter in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has a brother, Edward, living in West Bay City, who is also a lake sailor. The other children in the family are: William, Henry, Charles, Richard, Elizabeth and James.
The Captain commenced sailing in 1864, and sailed before the mast until the year 1868. Since the spring of 1869 he has followed steamboating for a livelihood.
In December, 1880, Captain Stone was wedded to Miss Margaret E., daughter of John Wallace, of Bay City. The children born to this union are: Charles M., Ruth A. and William S. The Captain is a Master Mason and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
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This version of Volume II is based, with permission, on the work of the great volunteers at the Marine Captains Biographies site. To them goes the credit for reorganizing the content into some coherent order. The biographies in the original volume are in essentially random order.
Some of the transcription work was also done by Brendon Baillod, who maintains an excellent guide to Great Lakes Shipwreck Research.
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