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Name: O'Connell, Pete
Area: 1999, Louisville Ky.
Boat: 1999, BELLE OF LOUISVILLE 

Name: Oglesby, Joseph H.
Area: 1856-58, Mo. R.
Boats: Master, JOSEPH H. OGLESBY
Comments: though named for the captain, thisboat was owned by
		  Capt. Henry A. Ealer and others

Name: Oldham, Joe
Comments: Wore kid gloves while in wheelhouse. Kept diamond-encrusted
          watch around his neck. Famous for his highhanded dealings with
          his employers.

Name: Olson, Oscar  Source
Boat(s):1917, SAINT PAUL, St. Louis excursion captain.

Name: O'Neal ?sp?, George
    Boats(s): 1875-6, with ?W.W. O'Neil ?sp?? owned AGGIE
              1879 - 188?, ABNER O'NEAL
    Area: 1879, Ohio R., Wheeling, W/ Va. to Steubenville
    Comments: Notes from WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, June 24, 1951
    Comments: Notes from WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
    Comments: from the Wheeling Intelligencer, July 6, 1882,

Name: O'Neil, W. W. 
Area: 1897, Ohio R.
Comments: Notes from The Tribune Telegraph,
           Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Aug. 18 1897

Name: O'Pry, James T.
Area: 1876, Lower Coast trade out of New Orleans.
Boats: 1876, ORIOLE and ISABEL
	   1885, ALVIN
Companies associated with: New Orleans and Gulf Transportation Company

1. Ostrander, James
Boats: 1864, PILOT, BEN STICKNEY
       1869, Pilot, BELLE LEE, 
Companies associated with: 1864-65, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company

Name: Owings, James H.
Boats: 1884, purchased with others the HARRY D. KNOX
Comments: This Article Mentions this man.  Though it does not say he was a captain.
			  	


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