Captain Jacobson, Veteran Of Lakes Sailing, Is Dead
Captain Peter Henry Jacobson, 64, 218 Lake Shore Drive, whose sailing career on the Great Lakes dated from the time of the late Captain Charles McCauley and the Steamer Maywood, died at 6:12 last night in St. Francis Hospital. He had been in poor health for nine months and was seriously ill only three days. A cerebral hemorrhage caused his death.
Born in Stonington, August 19, 1884, Mr. Jacobson attended the Stonington schools and for several years worked for the Skaug brothers on their Stonington farm. On November 6, 1909, he married Ellen Sorensen, their wedding the first to take place in the Swedish Lutheran church at Stonington.
The couple moved to Escanaba immediately following their marriage and lived since that time at their Lake Shore Drive home.
On Maywood
Captain Jacobson began sailing with the late Capt. McCauley and later was captain of the "Elide" for the Hansen and Jensen company. He bought and sailed his own boats for many years, among them the freighters "nerger" and "Ored Andres" and commercial fishing boats, "Clara S", "Sunrise" and "Hope". The "Hope" was his last boat. He was aboard her, fishing out of Manistique, when the Armistice Day storm of 1940 struck the Great Lakes and both he and members of his crew wer injured. He disposed of the boat that year.
He ran the tug, "McGuire" for the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company during the Escanaba ore docks project, and later was employed by the company in the same work at Sandusky, Fairport, 0., Ludington, Mich., Sault Ste. Marie and Milwaukee. He also ran a tug for the Union Construction Co. at Sturgeon Bay and Green Bay River, and in 1946 and 1847 was with Capt. Gallagher engaged in the construction of a crib at Hawk Island. He retired upon completion of this work.
Rites Probably Tuesday
He was a member of the First Methodist church and of the Danish Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Elizabeth of Escanaba, and Mrs. Frank (Marie) Tardel, Santa Rosa, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Jim Nelson, Stonington; two brothers, George J. of Columbus, Wis., and Harry, Dearborn, Mish.; and one grandson, Vernon Tardel.
Service probably will be held Tuesday afternoon, depending on Mrs. Tardel's arrival in Escanaba. Friends of the family may call at the Boyce funeral home beginning at 7 p. m. Saturday.
--Escanaba Daily Press, Sat., May 26, 1949
Captain Peter Henry Jacobson, 64, 218 Lake Shore Drive, whose sailing career on the Great Lakes dated from the time of the late Captain Charles McCauley and the Steamer Maywood, died at 6:12 last night in St. Francis Hospital. He had been in poor health for nine months and was seriously ill only three days. A cerebral hemorrhage caused his death.
Born in Stonington, August 19, 1884, Mr. Jacobson attended the Stonington schools and for several years worked for the Skaug brothers on their Stonington farm. On November 6, 1909, he married Ellen Sorensen, their wedding the first to take place in the Swedish Lutheran church at Stonington.
The couple moved to Escanaba immediately following their marriage and lived since that time at their Lake Shore Drive home.
On Maywood
Captain Jacobson began sailing with the late Capt. McCauley and later was captain of the "Elide" for the Hansen and Jensen company. He bought and sailed his own boats for many years, among them the freighters "nerger" and "Ored Andres" and commercial fishing boats, "Clara S", "Sunrise" and "Hope". The "Hope" was his last boat. He was aboard her, fishing out of Manistique, when the Armistice Day storm of 1940 struck the Great Lakes and both he and members of his crew wer injured. He disposed of the boat that year.
He ran the tug, "McGuire" for the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company during the Escanaba ore docks project, and later was employed by the company in the same work at Sandusky, Fairport, 0., Ludington, Mich., Sault Ste. Marie and Milwaukee. He also ran a tug for the Union Construction Co. at Sturgeon Bay and Green Bay River, and in 1946 and 1847 was with Capt. Gallagher engaged in the construction of a crib at Hawk Island. He retired upon completion of this work.
Rites Probably Tuesday
He was a member of the First Methodist church and of the Danish Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Elizabeth of Escanaba, and Mrs. Frank (Marie) Tardel, Santa Rosa, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Jim Nelson, Stonington; two brothers, George J. of Columbus, Wis., and Harry, Dearborn, Mish.; and one grandson, Vernon Tardel.
Service probably will be held Tuesday afternoon, depending on Mrs. Tardel's arrival in Escanaba. Friends of the family may call at the Boyce funeral home beginning at 7 p. m. Saturday.
--Escanaba Daily Press, Sat., May 26, 1949
Captain Jacobson, Veteran Of Lakes Sailing, Is Dead
Captain Peter Henry Jacobson, 64, 218 Lake Shore Drive, whose sailing career on the Great Lakes dated from the time of the late Captain Charles McCauley and the Steamer Maywood, died at 6:12 last night in St. Francis Hospital. He had been in poor health for nine months and was seriously ill only three days. A cerebral hemorrhage caused his death.
Born in Stonington, August 19, 1884, Mr. Jacobson attended the Stonington schools and for several years worked for the Skaug brothers on their Stonington farm. On November 6, 1909, he married Ellen Sorensen, their wedding the first to take place in the Swedish Lutheran church at Stonington.
The couple moved to Escanaba immediately following their marriage and lived since that time at their Lake Shore Drive home.
On Maywood
Captain Jacobson began sailing with the late Capt. McCauley and later was captain of the "Elide" for the Hansen and Jensen company. He bought and sailed his own boats for many years, among them the freighters "nerger" and "Ored Andres" and commercial fishing boats, "Clara S", "Sunrise" and "Hope". The "Hope" was his last boat. He was aboard her, fishing out of Manistique, when the Armistice Day storm of 1940 struck the Great Lakes and both he and members of his crew wer injured. He disposed of the boat that year.
He ran the tug, "McGuire" for the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company during the Escanaba ore docks project, and later was employed by the company in the same work at Sandusky, Fairport, 0., Ludington, Mich., Sault Ste. Marie and Milwaukee. He also ran a tug for the Union Construction Co. at Sturgeon Bay and Green Bay River, and in 1946 and 1847 was with Capt. Gallagher engaged in the construction of a crib at Hawk Island. He retired upon completion of this work.
Rites Probably Tuesday
He was a member of the First Methodist church and of the Danish Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Elizabeth of Escanaba, and Mrs. Frank (Marie) Tardel, Santa Rosa, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Jim Nelson, Stonington; two brothers, George J. of Columbus, Wis., and Harry, Dearborn, Mish.; and one grandson, Vernon Tardel.
Service probably will be held Tuesday afternoon, depending on Mrs. Tardel's arrival in Escanaba. Friends of the family may call at the Boyce funeral home beginning at 7 p. m. Saturday.
--Escanaba Daily Press, Sat., May 26, 1949
Captain Peter Henry Jacobson, 64, 218 Lake Shore Drive, whose sailing career on the Great Lakes dated from the time of the late Captain Charles McCauley and the Steamer Maywood, died at 6:12 last night in St. Francis Hospital. He had been in poor health for nine months and was seriously ill only three days. A cerebral hemorrhage caused his death.
Born in Stonington, August 19, 1884, Mr. Jacobson attended the Stonington schools and for several years worked for the Skaug brothers on their Stonington farm. On November 6, 1909, he married Ellen Sorensen, their wedding the first to take place in the Swedish Lutheran church at Stonington.
The couple moved to Escanaba immediately following their marriage and lived since that time at their Lake Shore Drive home.
On Maywood
Captain Jacobson began sailing with the late Capt. McCauley and later was captain of the "Elide" for the Hansen and Jensen company. He bought and sailed his own boats for many years, among them the freighters "nerger" and "Ored Andres" and commercial fishing boats, "Clara S", "Sunrise" and "Hope". The "Hope" was his last boat. He was aboard her, fishing out of Manistique, when the Armistice Day storm of 1940 struck the Great Lakes and both he and members of his crew wer injured. He disposed of the boat that year.
He ran the tug, "McGuire" for the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company during the Escanaba ore docks project, and later was employed by the company in the same work at Sandusky, Fairport, 0., Ludington, Mich., Sault Ste. Marie and Milwaukee. He also ran a tug for the Union Construction Co. at Sturgeon Bay and Green Bay River, and in 1946 and 1847 was with Capt. Gallagher engaged in the construction of a crib at Hawk Island. He retired upon completion of this work.
Rites Probably Tuesday
He was a member of the First Methodist church and of the Danish Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Elizabeth of Escanaba, and Mrs. Frank (Marie) Tardel, Santa Rosa, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Jim Nelson, Stonington; two brothers, George J. of Columbus, Wis., and Harry, Dearborn, Mish.; and one grandson, Vernon Tardel.
Service probably will be held Tuesday afternoon, depending on Mrs. Tardel's arrival in Escanaba. Friends of the family may call at the Boyce funeral home beginning at 7 p. m. Saturday.
--Escanaba Daily Press, Sat., May 26, 1949
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