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1. Name: Keeling, Franklin, New Orleans, See Obituary
Boat(s):1843, Aug.-1844, Nov., owned with others, FORT TOWSON
1846, Dec. 14, for a few days owned WARRIOR
1851, owner/master of LOUISA (No. 2);
1850s, during, CORA No. 3 or 4, Bouisa,
1858 - 1863, PAUL JONES
1867-74, sometime between, LOTTAWANNA
18??, FRANK KEELING JR.
1860s, JUDGE FLETCHER
Name: Keiser, John P.
Boats: 1863, FANNIE OGDEN, 1865, TWILIGHT
Area: St. Louis, Mo.
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: Keith, George G.
Born: Lexington, Mo. Died: Burried, Lexington, Mo.
Area: Mo. R.
Boats: 1860, Sept 3, steersman on ASA WILGUS when it sank.
1865, Pilot of MOLLIE DOZIER on Mo. R.
At one time Capt. of the DACOTAH
1871, Apr 12,-1874, June 6, had interest in EMILIE LA BARGE
At one time Capt. of FANNIE LEWIS.
1872, JOE KINNEY
1873, MARY McDONALD when she burned.
1875, before, ST. LUKE, owner.
1876, Aug. Sometime after was owner with others of E.H. DURFEE
1884, Was the last Capt. of MONTANA
1889, Sept. 15, pilot on BENTON when snagged 5mi.
above Washington MO.
1894, June, Was Captain of A.L. MASON, when sank. One
of the stacks fell on his legs and he never
quite recovered.
Companies Associated With: Missouri River Packet Co.
: Kansas City Packet Co.
Comments: See Obituary
: Was brother-in-law to Capt. William Rodney Massie
1. Name: Keith, Henry
Area: 1894, St. Louis-Shreveport
Boats: 1894, CHEROKEE
Name: Kells Source
Boat: 1875, Summer, RIO BRAVO
Name: Kelly
Area: 1848, out of New Orleans
Boat: 1848, April, Montezuma
Name: Kennedy, James
Boats: 1857, Was clerk on NEW LUCY
1865, BELLE when new, owned half along with Capt. T.W. Laughrey.
Name: Kenedy, Mifflin
Boat(s): 1840's: CORVETTE, COLONEL CROSS, MAJOR BROWN, WHITEVEILE
Area: 1840's: Rio Grande R.
Comments: Working with captains King, Richard and Sterling, Mark, he was the
main captain involved with U.S. Army in transporting troops
and supplies for General Taylor. It was he who chose the boats
CORVETTE, COLONEL CROSS, WHITEVEILE and the MAJOR BROWN for this
task.
Whether these boats were actually his or the U. S. Army's, the
below source does not make clear.
Pennysilvania born. Had captained on the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers.
Comments: Source Article
Outdoor 12
1. Name: Kerr, John L.
Area: 1907, Aug. - 1908, early, excursions in Pittsburgh
1912, Feb. Pittsburgh-New Orleans and back. 1 trip.
1913, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Boats: 1907, Aug. - 1908, early, ROSE HITE (the 2nd one)
1912, Feb. STEEL CITY
1913, CITY of PARKERSBURG
1. Name: Kerr, Wash H. of Irontown, Oh.
Died; 1880
Area: Ohio R.
Boats: 1850, LADY BYRON; 1862, J. B. FORD; 1851, part owner, TIBER
1855, pilot, MESSENGER; 1863-4, owner, CITIZEN;
1864, part owner, GOLDEN ERA; 1865, clerk, REVENUE;
1866-8, owner, ROBERT MOORE; 1868-9,
1868, Purchased the KENTON
1870-2, GRANITE STATE, the 2nd one;
1878, Capt. and Part owner, BUCKEYE STATE
1879-80, owner, GRANITE STATE the 3rd one.
Name: Ketchum, Fred
Boats: 1918, Master of the OMAHA in move from Mo. R. to Wheeling W. Va.
for the Liberty Transit Company, Wheeling.
1. Name: Ketchum, Jacob, in 1856 of New Richmond, Oh.
Died: 1863, Apr., shot from shore by Rebel while aboard the J. W. CHEESMAN on Yazoo R. during Civil War.
Boats: 1856 or so, the J.W. CHEESMAN
1880, owner with A.R. Ketchum, the CADDO BELLE
Companies asso. with: 1918, May, Liberty Transit Co.
Name: Killeen, John
Boat(s): 1878-??, LIBBIE CONGER
1896 - 19??, QUINCY
192? - 1894: SAINT PAUL
One Source
companies Associated With: 1878-96 or longer, Diamond Jo Line
Comments: Supervised the rebuild of SAINT PAUL.
: 1890, A letter from Joseph (Diamond Jo) Reynolds assured Superintendent
John Kileen that adverse conditions (of the river) rather than
the superintendent's efforts were responsible for the boats not
making any money."
*Name: Kimber, Abraham
Born: 1791, Brownsville, Pa.
Died: 1852, Burried in with wife, Elizabeth, in Quaker graveyard
between Magnolia and McNabb.
Boats: 1813: Posswibly put up money for Henry Shreve's COMET
1831, possibly part owner of CAROLINE and TRAVELER
1832, possibly part owner of SOUVENER
1836, possibly part owner of FRONTIER
1853, possibly had interest in 1853 GARDEN CITY
Later owner with Capt. Herman Price of a second GARDEN CITY
Comments: owned the Kimber Glass Works in Brownsville on Monongahela R.
: was father to steamboat engineers and owners, Joseph and Issac Kimber
Also see his sons-in-law, Eli R. Mills and Hermon Price
: 1840, Retired from river to home 6 mi. N. of Hennipen and 3mi. S. of Florid.
*Source: Article
Name: Kimbrough, T. N.
Boat(s): ELLA KIMBROUGH, formerly the GENERAL SHERMAN
Comments: Purchased GENERAL SHERMAN from P.P. Manion
and renamed her the ELLA KIMBROUGH. Kimbrough was co-owner and
Captain of this boat even back when the U.S. Government owned
her.
Name: Kimpel, Fred Source
Boat(s): 1866, With Capt Steve Thompson and others purchased
U.S. Gunboat GENERAL THOMAS and turned her into the
Packet INGOMAR.
1888, BEN HUR
Area: 1988, Ohio R.
1. Name: Kimple, Fred Jr.
Area: Pittsburgh-Wheeling
Boats: 1882, the ELAINE
1897, sometime after, with Capt. Sam Williamson, purchased the BESSIE SMITH
Name: Kindrick, J.P.
Boats: 1893 or so, master of CITY OF CHATTANOOGA
1. Name: King, Enoch
Area: 1870, L. Miss R.
Boats: 1870, June 30, was one of the pilots on the ROB'T E. LEE
When she raced the NATCHEZ
Name: King, Henry Jasper of Chamberlain, So. Dakota
Born: 183?4?; 1837, Immigrated to U.S., at 3 yrs old as Koing
1. Died: 1905, Chamberlain, S.Dakota.
1. Area: U. Miss. R., Ohio R. and Missouri's Osage R.
Boats: *1855, as Capt. or pilot of GENOA made first trip to Chamberlain, S.D.
*1866, Part owner, VIOLA BELLE
1881, Master and pilot, FAR WEST
1.1886, Aug. - 1899, owned with son *M.H. King, LAST CHANCE
Comments: *another Source or from Burle County, S.D. Historical Society
Name: King, J.F., of Belpre
Boats: 1875, Part owner with J.R. and J.K. King of IRON KING
Comments: One of these three Kings is mentioned in this Document
Name: King, J.K.
Boats: Part owner with J.F. and J.R. King of IRON KING
Comments:
1. Name: King, J.R.
Area: Ohio R.
Boat(s): 1875 - ?? Part owner of IRON KING
Name: King Louis
Area: 1870s, Neches and Trinity Rs., Tex.
Boats: 1869-77, Sept., ORLEANS
Comments: See source Article
Name: King, Martin Blakely
Born: 1896. Died: in Iowa.
Comments; Son of Capt. Henry Jasper King
Name: King, Richard
Boats: 1846 or so: COLONEL CROSS
Area: 1846, Rio Grande R., Texas
Comments: A veteren of the Siminol war.
A friend of Capt. Mifflin Kenedy, who coaxed him to the Rio Grande
Comments: Source Article
Name: King, W. H.
Boats: 1870, July 27, CARRIE POOLE, when she burned.
Name: Kinman, Jim
Area: 1866, Aug. entered the U. White R. trade
Boats: 1866, Aug., J.R. HOYLE
Comments: Source
Name: Kinney, Joseph
Born: 1810
Died: 1892, Mar. 1
Area: Mo. R., 1860, built home, Rivercene, in Boonville, Mo.
Boats: 1856, Owner and Capt. of WILLIAM H. RUSSELL, his first boat.
1862, FANNY OGDEN; 1864, KATE KINEY No. 1; 1873, KATE KINNEY No.2;
1864, CORA KINNEY No. 1; 1865, CORA KINNEY No. 2;
1870, ALICE; 1868-75, ST. LUKE;
1872-82, JOE KINNEY; 1872-78, R.W. DUGAN
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
: Mentioned
Name: Kirkman, R. B.
Boat: ???? - 1913: ANNIE CADE, ferry boat at Kansas City Mo.
Credit: Book: "Bridge To The Past". Published by North Kansas City, Mo. Chamber of Commerce, 1983
Name: Kirkpatrick, Moses, Westport Ky.
Area: 1800s, mid to late., Miss. & Ohio Rs.
Boats: CITY OF SAVANNAH
Comments: From site visitor -
I am interested in getting info on my great grandfather,
Capt. Moses Kirkpatrick. His boat was the "City of Savannah".
He was from Westport, KY and was a riverboat captain on the Mississippi
and Ohio Rivers from the mid 1800's till 1880's.
Mabeth Kirkpatrick
Name: Kitchell, Joseph Syrus
Area: 1900s, early, Ohio and Monongahela Rs.
Boats: LORENA and WARING
Source: Query
Name: Klinefelter, Jesse
Died: 1849, July, Pittsburgh, Pa, aboard HIBERNIA No. 2 as she was landing
with cholera aboard. Capt. C.W. Batchelor was engaged to take his place.
Boats: 1843, UTICA
Comments: Brother to John, below.
1. Name: Klinefelter, John Simpson
Died: 1885, June 15, Bunker Hill, Ill.
Area: Ohio R.
Boats: 1843, Capt. of the 1st LANCASTER
1844-47, Master and part owner of the 1st HIBERNIA.
1845, ?Owner? of TRIBUTARY when she came out.
1849-52, Capt. of HIBERNIA #2
1851, Capt. of MESSENGER No. 2
1853, Part owner of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line, the company that
owned MESSENGER #2. Later that year he became her Master.
1854, PENNSYLANIA, with others
1855-6, Owned 1/4 of GYPSY, the 2nd one
1856-?, part owner of LA CROSSE
1858-63, June, took stock in and bacame Master of GLADIATOR, the 2nd one.
Comments: "Captain John Klinefelter succeeded Captain Woodward in command of the
HIBERNIA #2 and was skipper when showman P.T. Barnum and the "Sweet-
heart of Continents", Jenny Lind, were brought up in the spring
of 1851. A race had been arranged with the BUCKEYE STATE,
then the speed-champ of the upper Ohio, in which the BUCKEYE
ran away from the MESSENGER. It is an old tradition that the
MESSENGER #2 on this trip stuck on a bar at Old Town, everafter
known as Jenny Lind Bar"
Comments: 1. "The Wheeling suspension bridge was demolished
in a windstorm May 18, 1854, and the next day the PENNSYLVANIA
came by with her stacks lowered, a gesture the Wheeling citizens
interpreted as a slap in the face. Tempers were hot inasmuch as the
Pittsburgers (Cincinnati Packet Line and Klinefelter) had gone to
The U.S. Supreme Court to have the bridge declared a hazard to
navigation, dangerous to the high steamboat smokestacks. When
the Pittsburgh owned PENNSYLVANIA put on this exhibition of lowering
her stacks, with no bridge there to lower them for, a mob gathered
and stones and brickbats flew. The CITY of WHEELING was also
at the warf when these fireworks erupted, and both departed
forthwith.
"The Wheeling Intelligencer issue, May 27, 1854, ran
a scathing editorial denouncing Capt. John Klinefelter
and his tactics headed "Pittsburgh Outrage."
1. Name: Klinefelter, Thomas
Boat: *Sometime between 1871 and '88, one of the last 2 GRANITE STATEs
Comments:* From site visitor, Dean A. Thompson, from info he got many years
ago from the Island River Museum (?now defunct?) in Sewickly, Pa..
Name: Knight, William
Boats: 1861, MOSES McLELLAN
Name: Knowles, Hod
Area: 1877, Pittsburg-Cincinnati on EMMA GRAHAM
Boats: 1877, master when she was new, EMMA GRAHAM
1879, W.P. THOMPSON
1886- LATE 1888, BENTON McMILLIN
Comments: Two mentions in this Article
1. Name: Knox, Charles W.
Boats: 1910, Dec. - 1911, early summer, LUCILLE NOWLAND
Owners Associated With: 1910, Dec. - 1911, early summer, Noll, Martin F.
Name: Kosmo, Jim
Area: 1999, St. Paul, Minn.
Boat: 1999, JONATHAN PADELFORD
Name: Kouns, Louis E.
Comments: 1882, Mar. 25, President Island, Capt's. wife and 3 children
parrished in burning of GOLDEN CITY.
1. Name: Kountz, Capt. William J. of Pittsburgh
Boats: 1845, pilot with C.W. Batchelor of FULTON
pilot with C.W. Batchelor of PRAIRIE BIRD
Built first boat, PILOT
1843 or so, master, EXPRESS MAIL
1846-49, Owned FINANCIER
1847 or 8, captain of NEW ENGLAND
1847-52, Owned largely, MT. VERNON
-52 Owned PILOT No.2
-53, Owned with others, the 1846 WYOMING
1848, Owner with Capt. John Birmingham, AARON HART
1850, Captain of CINCINNATI
-55, Sept. 17, owned in part, the 1850 LUELLA
1851, ?Owned? and was master of PITTSBURGH
1853, Owned in part, CRYSTAL PALACE. Was also master.
-55, May 31, Owned in part, KEYSTONE STATE
1857, Owned CITY of MEMPHIS
1863, Owned with others, CARRIE
1863, Apr. 16, purchased with D.S.H. Gilmore and others, ALLEGHENY BELLE No. 4
1864, Mid-Dec., purchased with Capt. J. C. Saint, BAYARD
Had built, KATIE
1865, Had built with others, W.H. OSBORN
1867, Had interest in the 1866 LUELLA
1868, Had built, ANDREW ACKLEY
-69, Owned in part, URILDA
-75, Owned the 1868 PENINAH*
1869, Owned with others, CARRIE V. KOUNTZ
1870, Had built, GENERAL CUSTER
Owned HENRY C. YEAGER
or so, bought interest in MOLLIE MOORE
1871, Owned JOHN F. TOLLE
-76, Feb. 20, Owned MAY LOWERY
-80, owned, KATIE P. KOUNTZ
1875, Had built, GENERAL MEADE
or so, built 1875 E.O. STANDARD from wreck of 1873 PARAGON
Built PENINAH No. 2 from remains of 1868 PENINAH
1876-9?, Owned ferry boat WILLIAM THAW
1877, Owned J.B.M. KEHLOR
1878, May, purchased CARRIE BROOKS for machinery.
Had built, GENERAL D.H. RUCKER
Had built, with others, GENERAL CHAS. H. TOMPKINS
Had built, JOHN D. SCULLY
Comments: Had title Commodore
*Wife's name, Peninah
1. Name: Kraft, Harry R.
Area: 1912, With father, Henry, took LIBERTY From Mobile, through Gulf
and to Pittsburgh.
Boats: 1912, LIBERTY (the 3rd one)
Comments: Son to Capt. Henry R Kraft, below.
1. Name: Kraft, Henry R.
Area: 1891, Wheeling-Parkersburg
1898, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg
1910, Pittsburgh-Morgantown W. Va.
1912, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg
1912, With son, Harry, took LIBERTY FROM Mobile, through Gulf
and to Pittsburgh.
1915, Pittsburgh-Parkersburg
Boats: 1891, MATT F. ALLEN, Capt. and owner with others
1898, Capt. and half owner, H.K. BEDFORD
1910, With Capt. Martin Noll, purchased BESSIE SMITH, entire.
1912, GREENWOOD
1912, LIBERTY (the 3rd one)
1915, LORENA (the 2nd one)
Comments: Father to Capt. Harry R. Kraft, above.
*Name: Kraft, W.D. (Will?)(Commadore ?)
Boats: Named as possible master for the IDA SMITH
*1884, Clerk on KATIE STOCKDALE
*1884, Dec. clerk on EMMA GRAHAM
Name: Krug, Brian
Area, 1999, Pittsburgh
Boat: 1999, MAJESTIC
Name: KUNTZ
Boats: 1848 or so, CINCINNATI
Comments: From The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879
1. Name: Kyle, John
Boat: 1855, pilot, MESSENGER
