Sentence examples for steamboat captain from inspiring English sources

The agent stopped and arranged onward passage with a steamboat captain.

The King Ranch was established by Richard King, a steamboat captain born in 1825 in Orange county, New York.

INSIDE: According to the current owner, the house was built in 1898 for a steamboat captain, whose name is still carved on one of the house's cisterns.

He was born in Florida in 1834 to a Connecticut steamboat captain and a local 14-year-old girl from a slaveholding family.

In Monroe, La., the city government is raising $1.5 million to restore and furnish a 1920s Griffin house with chevron-pattern windows, built for a steamboat captain.

He was a descendant of Richard King, a native of New York and former steamboat captain who founded the King Ranch in 1853.

Born in Virginia's Tidewater region to an old, undistinguished family of struggling merchants, steamboat captains, shipbuilders and tobacco manufacturers, Styron's grandfather was in the Confederate army.

In the Abajo district, look for 19th-century residential architecture among the homes of the steamboat captains and industrialists who prospered in Napa in the 1880's and 1890's.

Until 1879 Captain Joseph La Barge was the principal figure among the Missouri steamboat captains in the early years of the city.

Newspaper reporters -- a bane of White's existence -- write about "affable" hotel-keepers and "affable" steamboat captains, although these men's customers are probably their social superiors.

In a hearings before the United States Steamboat Inspection Service, Captain Knowles of El Sol and the captain of Sac City were both cleared of wrongdoing in the collision, and the blame was laid on the heavy fog.