Louisville

Hartford, John

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Louisville (Steamboat)
River steamers
Steamboats

The Louisville was built in 1864 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 23.3 x 3.6 feet; displacement 192 tons. She was a rafter owned by Durant and Wheeler of Stillwater, Minnesota during the seventies. Captain R. J. Wheeler was her master. The Louisville was subsequently owned by Knapp, Stout and Company of Dubuque, Iowa and St. Louis, Missouri. J. H. Wooders and later, Andrew Lucken, were masters. She, with other boats of this company, were bought by McDonald Brothers of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, about 1883, and Captain L. A. Day became master; later, R. M. Cassidy. She was worn out in service of the McDonald Brothers; finally laid up and dismantled.

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