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NOTES Chapter 1 1. Mahan and Mahan, Wild Lake Michigan, 11–15. 2. John Gasman, “From New York to Wisconsin in 1844,” trans. and ed. Carlton C. Qualey, Studies and Records of the Norwegian-American Historical Collection (Northfield, MN, 1930), 5:45. Quoted in Yakes, “Common Men,” 3:11. 3. The term, which literally translates to “woods runners,” refers to unregulated fur traders who would sell their pelts to the highest bidders, often of rival nationalities, such as the English or Dutch. Dunbar and May, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State, 22. 4. Yakes, “Common Men,” 1:10. 5. Johnston, “From Bark Canoe to Bulk Carrier,” 62. 6. James P. Barry, Ships of the Great Lakes (Holt, MI: Thunder Bay Press, 1996), 23. 7. Catton, Michigan: A History, 52–54. 8. Yakes and Hornstein, The Many Lives of Muskegon, 3:24. 9. Armour and Widder, At the Crossroads, 124–25. 10. Excerpt from the log of the HMS Felicity, quoted in Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 8; Quaife, Lake Michigan, 293–94. 11. Quaife, Lake Michigan, 103–5. 12. Banner, “The Riddles of Felicity,” 62–63. Chapter 2 1. Until about 1840–50, the settlement’s name was known under several variations: Muskeego, Maskego, Maskegon, or Muskego. 2. Yakes, “Common Men,” 1:14–15. 3. Catton, Michigan: A History, 103; Yakes and Hornstein, The Many Lives of Muskegon, iv–3. 4. Yakes, “Common Men,” 1:29. 5. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 25. 6. Yakes, “Common Men,” 1:51. 7. “Muskegon 50 Years Ago.” 8. Yakes, “Common Men,” 1:119. 9. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 41. 10. Yates, “Shipping History.” 11. Karamanski, Schooner Passage, 29–30. 12. Charles Hackley was involved with a number of partners in his lumber business. In this study, the focus is on Hackley and McGordon (1867–81) with James McGordon, and the partnership that followed, Hackley and Hume (1881–1905), with Thomas Hume. 13. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 74. 14. Ibid. 15. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 141. 185 Notes to Chapter 2 16. Ibid. 17. “Muskegon 50 Years Ago.” 18. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 141–42. 19. Ibid., 288–89. 20. “Beached,” The News and Reporter, November 3, 1875. Muskegon did not have a life saving service until 1878. 21. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 169. 22. Ibid., 289. The Hume family took care of another one of their captains. In 1941, Captain Peter DeBlake, former master of the schooners Rouse Simmons and Cape Horn, had fallen on hard times. George A. Hume, the son of Thomas Hume, and others arranged to pay for his entrance fee to the Old People’s Home (now the Hume Home for Assisted Living), founded by his father (Hackley and Hume Collection). 23. Yakes, “Common Men,” 1:177. 24. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 142. 25. Yakes and Hornstein, Muskegon: First Hand, 100. 26. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 83. 27. Yates, “Ships Also Dotted Muskegon Lake.” 28. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 236. 29. Letter to John M’Donnell, Collector, Detroit Daily Advertiser, September 20, 1838, p. 2. The Advertiser refers to him as Captain Homans, but the U.S. naval records list him as a lieutenant. Thanks to Davis Elliott, information technology specialist, Navy Department Library, for this correction. 30. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 98. 31. Witherell, obituary. 32. Ibid. 33. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 98; Witherell, obituary. 34. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 42; statistical information supplied by Mike Spears. 35. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 94. 36. Harms, “Life after Lumbering,” 152. 37. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 94. 38. Quaife, Lake Michigan, 333. 39. Yates, “Ship Repair Projects Date Back 67 Years.” 40. Marine Directory of the Great Lakes, individual entries. 41. Before the village was named Port Sherman in 1866 (after Union General WilliamT. Sherman), the area was simply known as “the Mouth.” 42. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 84. 43. Yakes and Hornstein, The Many Lives of Muskegon, viii, 5–6. 44. Yates, “Know Muskegon,” Muskegon Chronicle, April 22, 1950, p. 18. 45. Fuller, Historic Michigan, 47. 46. Kyes, Romance of Muskegon, 59. 47. Fuller, Historic Michigan, 47–48. 48. Yates, “Coast Guard Forerunner.” 49. Point Solitude was an earlier name for Little Sable Point. 50. Letter, Detroit Daily Advertiser, December 10, 1839, p. 2. 51. Ibid. 52. The steamship Lexington burned off Eaton’s Neck, New York, on January 13, 1840, with the loss of 140 lives. 53. Detroit Daily Advertiser, April 9, 1840, p. 2. 54. Lillie, Historic Grand Haven and Ottawa County, 189. 186 [3.143.4...

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