COLLECTION NAME:
Mary Wheeler Collection
Record
Filename:
MW.B4.F20.036(ip).tif
Identifier:
MW.B4.F20.036(ip)
Title:
Stw. Betsy Ann and Stw. Senator Cordill
Creator:
Wheeler, Mary (1892-1979)
Subject:
Steamboats
Subject:
River industry
Subject:
Rivers
Description:
A page from Mary Wheeler's research with two photographs attached. The first photograph is of the starboard of the sternwheeler BETSY ANN (Way #0604) . The BETSY ANN, a sternwheel packet boat with an iron hull (165 x 33 x 5.5) was built at Dubuque, IA in 1899. She ran in the Natchez-Bayou Sara trade, Pittsburgh-Portsmouth, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati, Pittsburgh-Louisville, Pittsburgh-Charleston and eventually made two trips out of Memphis towing cotton. Frederick Way Sr. and Jr. had a long history with the BETSY ANN, and F.Way Jr. wrote The Log of the Betsy Ann. She is well known for three staged races with the CHRIS GREENE (1928) and TOM GREEN (1929 and 1930), which brought a new interest in steamboat racing. The second photograph is of the starboard side of the sternwheeler SENATOR CORDILL (Way #5080). The SENATOR CORDILL, a sternwheeler packetboat with a wooden hull (170 x 33 x 5) built in 1902 by Howard Ship Yard in Jeffersonville, IN. It was expanded to (193 x 36 x 6.9). It ran the Vicksburg-Natchez, Pittsburgh-Charleston, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati among others. She sank at Dam 14, Ohio River on the morning of February , 1934. She was raised and taken to Pittsburgh and dismantled.
Publisher:
McCracken County Public Library
Date:
Circa 1935
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Image/TIFF
Language:
English
Coverage:
Lower Ohio River Valley
Rights:
Permission must be obtained from the McCracken County Public Library, Local and Family History Department
Citation:
Ancestry Library Edition. ProQuest, n.d. Web. Caron's Directory of the City of Paducah, KY. Louisville, KY: Caron Directory Company Inc., 1908-1959. Print. "Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records." Web. 2014. "Paducahky.gov." Oak Grove Cemetery. City of Paducah. Web. 2014. Way, Frederick, Jr. Way�s Packet Directory, 1848-1983. Athens, OH: Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, 1983. Print. Way, Frederick, and Joseph W. Rutter. Way's Steam Towboat Directory. Athens: Ohio UP, 1990. Print. Wheeler, Mary. Steamboatin� Days: Folk Songs of the River Packet Era. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Print. 1860-1940 U.S. Census, population schedule, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com)
