City of St. Louis (Packet, 1883-1903)

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sidewheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1883 at Jeffersonville, Indiana at Howard Ship Yards
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Laid up at Carondelet, Missouri and burned there on October 29, 1903
• OWNERS: Anchor Line; Captain W. H. Thorgewan (1898); Columbia Excursion Company; James M. Grasty (1899); Greater New York Home Oil Company (1903); T. Marshall Miller (1903)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain James O'Neal (master); Joe Bryan (pilot, 1894); Charlie O'Neal (pilot, 1894); Captain W. H. Thorgewan (master, 1898); C. M. Berkley (clerk, 1898)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1130; Home port or owner's residence circa 1882, St. Louis, Missouri. Original price $86,850. Captain W. H. Thorgewan bought her at a U.S. marshal sale at St. Louis, March 1898 for his bid of $19,050. In 1901, she was running harbor excursions at New Orleans; President McKinley rode her that May. Sold early 1903 to the Greater New York Home Oil Company but a U.S. marshal stepped in and sold her to attorney T. Marshall Miller for $3,125. After she burned, the Anchor Line sold her original roof bell to Captain J. Frank Ellison and it went to the Queen City
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Interior cabin on the City of St. Louis