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Description:
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Built as the "Lawrence" of wood for passenger and freight service for the Northern Transit Co. at Cleveland in 1868 to operate between Milwaukee and Ogdenburg. In 1882, she was taken over by the Northern Michigan Line. She was sold in 1902, rebuilt and renamed "Frontenac". She burned at Lorain, Ohio in 1908 but redocumented at Toledo, Ohio in 1909. After being rebuilt she was named "H. N. Jex" in 1910. She was sold Canadian in 1915 to John F. Sowards of Kingston. On Aug. 16, 1921 she foundered ten miles south of Point Peter, Lake Ontario, bound for Kingston with a load of coal. No lives were lost. |
