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Steamboat Owners Starting With " J " |
Name: Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville)
Boats: 1995-present, SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON
1962-present, BELLE of LOUISVILLE
1. Name: Johnson, Capt. T.T.
Area: 1870-88 or so, Ohio R.
Boats: 1880-88, Part owner GRANITE STATE
1. Name: Jones, N.M., Memphis coal dealer
Boats: 1902, for a few months, LIBERTY (the 3rd one)
Comments: was part owner of Greenville and New Orleans Packet Company, which
built and operated the J.M. WHITE
Name: Jordan, David S.
Boats: 1850s - 1880s, BUENA VISTA, SAMUEL J. TILDEN
Area: Mobile, Alabama and the river systems to the north of that city.
Tombigbee River in Clarke County, (?AL?) during the 1850s-1880's.
Captains:
Comments: This info from his GGG Grandson, David Upton:
"I am looking
for imformation on my familys history. My great great great
grandfather, David S. Jordan, owned a river boat company.
He shipped produce and items between Mobile Alabama and the
river systems to the north of that city. His base of
operations was on the Tombigbee River in Clarke County during
the 1850s-1880's. He started with flatbottom river boats and
eventually steam powered boats. I only have two names of the
boats he owned. They were the Buenavista and the Samual J. Tilden.
He did not have a pilots licence and he had to hire his crews
instead of using his own family to run the boats."