History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . DENCE, SPALDING, AND THE SITE OF THE OLDCHURCH JUST TORN DOWN. that place, and made the remark that shewas the first steamer that ever plowedLake Superior, which is an error, and hehas been misinformed. I have waited thuslong to see it corrected, but I dont thinkit has met the eye of the other survivorsof that trip (if there are any left). There-fore, before L
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . DENCE, SPALDING, AND THE SITE OF THE OLDCHURCH JUST TORN DOWN. that place, and made the remark that shewas the first steamer that ever plowedLake Superior, which is an error, and hehas been misinformed. I have waited thuslong to see it corrected, but I dont thinkit has met the eye of the other survivorsof that trip (if there are any left). There-fore, before L too, pass away, and whilemy memor) yet serves me, I will correctthe statement and give a short history ofthat memorable first trip by steam onLake Superior. My memory carries me back to the 294 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF spring of 1845, or more than one-third ofa century, and I have a vivid recollectionof standing on Dorr & Webbs dock inDetroit early in that spring, watching theprocess of transforming a little tub of asloop, of about fifteen tons, into a fore-and-after called the Ocean. Said sloophad a history, she having capsized once ortwice and drowned part of her thought they could disguise her so. THE PRESENT CHURCH OF SPALDING. as to get a crew to man her. My fundsbeing rather low I determined to ship ifI could, and ship I did. We took in acargo of fish for Sandusky and Milan,Ohio, and in due time sailed for thoseports, and returned without any seriousmishaps. We then received orders to fitup for Lake Superior, which we accord-ingly did, but I lieing slightly indisposed when we got ready, I could not proceedwith the vessel, which sailed without time in June I think, the samefirm that owned the Ocean bought andfitted up the topsail schooner Merchant ofabout seventy five tons, Capt. John Wat-son, for the same trade, i. e., Lake Supe-rior, and I being determined to visit thatfamous lake shipped on her, with the un-derstanding that I might join my ownship (th
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