Mountain Boy (Packet, 1868-1872)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 1868
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Lost in ice 1872/1873
• OWNERS: Kanawha River and Gallipolis Packet Company
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain James Newton (master, 1868, 1870); Captain R. L. Hamilton (master); J. A. McClurg (clerk); A. J. Bickett (clerk)
• RIVERS: Ohio River; Kanawha River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4052; First home port Parkersburg, West Virginia; built for the Kanawha & Gallipolis Packet Company. Captain James Newton was first master in the Gallipolis-Charleston trade. He commanded her on a trip to Wheeling, West Virginia in March 1870 and transferred the West Virginia state capitol to Charleston. She was demolished in an ice gorge at Cincinnati in late December 1872 or 1873
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At the Cincinnati waterfront; unknown boat in foreground near bridge, Mountain Boy and Wildwood in background