The steamboat Erie on fire, 9 August 1841, later renamed Jersey in the anonymous prose sketch, entitled The Helmsman of Lake Erie

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llustration from Home Words published 1890. The steamboat Erie on fire, 9 August 1841, later renamed Jersey in the anonymous prose sketch entitled The Helmsman of Lake Erie, about Augustus Fuller, also known as Luther Fuller and John Maynard, the hero of Lake Erie

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