1. Name: W.E. Gibson and Company
    Area: 1864-69, Ohio R.
    Boats: 1864-69, HAVANA
    Captains associated with: 1864-69, Malin, Ira

1. Name: Waggoner, John W.
    Boat: 1865, Aug. 17, Purchased PEOSTA
    Comments: *Possibly father of a Isaac Newton Waggoner 

1. Name: Warth and English, of Cincinnati, Oh.
    Boats: 1844, had BLUE RIDGE built.  Soon sold her to a Capt. Payne and others.
    Comments:  There was a Robert Warth who partnered with a Hereford to build
               the CRUSADER

Name: Weems Line
    Area: out of Baltimore Oh.
    Boats: 1817, SURPRISE; later, EAGLE and PATUXENT
    Owner: Capt. George Weems
    Comments: Source

Name: West Memphis Packet Company
    Boats: 1915, IDLEWILD Later renamed AVALON then BELLE OF
           LOUISVILLE.
    Area: Miss. R., Memphis to Hopefield Point, Arkansas
    Owner:
    Comments: Please see the IDLEWILD for important history on one of the
              two last of operational steam powered paddlewheelers.

Name: Wells, Charles V.          
    Boat(s): 1860-63, PLANTER
    Area: Miss. R.
    Comments: Credit

Name: Wheeling & Cincinnati Packet Company
    Principals: 1877, David Gibson, pres.,Martin F. Noll, sec.,
    				  Capt. Charles Muhleman, supt.
    Boats: 1877 - , ANDES


Name: Wheeling & Parkersburg Packet Company
    Boats: 1870, COURIER

Name: Wheeling, Parkersburg and Cincinnati Transportation Company
    Owner(s): 1882, Pres. of Co., Capt. Charles H. Booth
    Principals: 1884, Sept. Henry Schmulbach was elected President,
    						Superintendent and Treasurer.
Area: Ohio R.
    Boats: 1882, March, pruchased the SCIOTO
    		   1884, Diurnal
    Comments: Financial problems dur to SCIOTO disaster, See


1. Name: Wheeling & Sun Fish Packet Company
    Principals: Capt. Steve Thompson and others
    Area: Wheeling-Clarington
    Boats: 1866-76, JAMES REES

Name: Wheeling Union Packet Line
    Area: daily service between Wheeling and Louisville
    Owner(s) Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and/or Capt. Tom Brieily
    Boats Associated with: ALVIN ADAMS, 1853 VIRGINIA,
           FOREST CITY
           1853, THOMAS SWANN, BALTIMORE, CITY OF WHEELING, 
               MORNING STAR, EVENING STAR, POLAR STAR, DAVID WHITE 
               FALLS CITY, PERSIA, JOHN C. FREEMONT 
    Captains Associated with: 1853, George W. Norton of ALVIN ADAMS
                                    Charles V. Wells of VIRGINIA
                                    Sam Mason of FALLS CITY
                                    John McLure Jr. of THOMAS SWANN
                                    A. Murdoch of FOREST CITY
                                    William McClain of DAVID WHITE
                                    William Clarke of BALTIMORE
    Comments: Notes from Wheeling, West Virginia,
                  WHEELING INTELLIGENCER,  June 24, 1951
            : The owners of this line were dedicated to building a solid South.
              Notes from the The Wheeling Register, Monday, March 31, 1879.

Name: White Collar Line
		See Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Company

*Name: White, Capt. J. M.
    Born: 1823   Died: 1880
    Boats owned in part,
          : 1859 - 1864, Feb. 15, J.M. SHARP owned 1/3 of her.
          : 1866 - 1870, Dec. 19, GLENDY BURKE owned 1/4 of her.
          : 1878 - 1886, Dec. 13, J.M. WHITE No. 3, along with 6 others as
                 Greenville and New Orleans Packet Company
    Source:  Way's Packet Directory, 1884 - 1994

*Name: White, J. M., Merchant
    born:          Died: 1846, Sept. 26, St. Louis, Mo.
    Boats: 1842 - 1843, Mar. 28, J.M. WHITE
         : 1844 - 1846, Sept. 26, J.M. WHITE
    Name: White Collar Line, See

Name: Whitesides, Jonathan
    Area: 1852, Upper White R., Ark.
    Boats: 1852, owned with Captain Silas Daugherty, the MARY L. DAUGHERTY
    Comments: Source

1. Name: Wisherd, Capt. D.W.
    Area: 1912-23, his boat tramped New Orleans - Pittsburgh
    Boat(s): co-owned G.W. HILL with Gregory, Sam

1. Name: Witherington, A.J.
    Area: Miss. and White Rs.
    Boat: 1861, DR. BUFFINGTON
        : 1862, with Capt. Robert L. Withers, part owner of MORGAN NELSON.
    Comments: More on Capt. Witherington

Name: Withers, Robert L. of Longview Ark. on Saline R.
    Burried: Longview, Ark. in Withers plot in Prarie Chappel Cemetery 
    Area: 1862, May - 1865, June, hauled supplies up river for the Confederate
                States of America Army to various points on the Mississippi,
                Black, Red, Ouachita and Saline Rivers
          1866, New Orleans - Red R.
    Boats: 1862-65 MORGAN NELSON, with Capt. A.L. Witherington
           1866, Purchased CARRIE POOL and operated for several years
           1866, sometinme after, operated a ferry on the Saline River near
                 Longview at Cavaness Landing
    Comments:  Source

1. White Collar Line
         See Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Company



Name: Williams, Justinian
    Boat(s): FAR WEST
    Area: 1834-36, Mo R.
    Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage

Name: Wilmunder, Hal
    Area: California Delta
    Boat: Elizabeth Louise
    Comments: Built the ELIZABETH LOUISE in his back yard.

Name: Witt, John
    Boats: 1929-42, W.J. QUILAN
    Source: See

Name: Work, George P., of New Orleans
	Boats: 1868, Feb. VICKSBURG which started as the
       3rd boat named LOUISVILLE then was renamed OUACHITA then VICKSBURG.

*Name: Worlds Fair Navigation Company
Boats: 1903, 1898-1900, CORWIN H. SPENCER

Name: Wright, John T.
Area: West Coast
Boats: 1860s, early, BROTHER JOHNATHAN/COMMODORE