Old Times on the Upper Mississippi / The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

by George Byron Merrick

A. G. MASON—Stern-wheel; built at West Brownsville, Pa., 1855; 170 tons; in St. Paul trade 1855; 1856; 1857—Captain Barry, Clerk Pearman.

ALBANY—Very small boat; in Minnesota River trade 1861.

ALEX. HAMILTON—Galena and St. Paul trade 1848—Captain W. H. Hooper.

ALHAMBRA—Stern-wheel; built at McKeesport, Pa., 1854; 187 tons; Minnesota Packet Company, St. Paul trade 1855—Captain McGuire; 1856—Captain W. H. Gabbert; 1857—Captain McGuire; same trade 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862, in Dunleith Line, Captain William Faucette.

ALICE—Stern-wheel; built at California, Pa., 1853; 72 tons; at St. Paul 1854.

ALPHIA—Galena and St. Louis trade 1837.

ALTOONA—Stern-wheel; built at Brownsville, Pa., 1853; 66 tons; was in great ice jam at St. Louis, February, 1856; at St. Paul 1857; sunk at Montgomery tow-head 1859.

AMARANTH—(First)—Galena trade 1842—Captain G. W. Atchinson; sunk at head of Amaranth Island 1842.

AMARANTH—(Second)—At Galena, from St. Louis, April 8, 1845.

AMERICA—Sunk 1852, opposite Madison, Iowa.