Saginaw Daily News – February 1, 1932 (Page 10)
CAPT. MICHAEL MAHER, LAKES VETERAN, PASSES.
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(Special to The Saginaw Daily News.)
BAY CITY, Mich., Feb. 1 -- Capt. Michael Maher, 74, for many years a captain on Great Lakes freight and passenger boats and the owner of the National Boiler company here, died Sunday night at his home here after an illness of six months.
Captain Maher was well known to many Saginaw residents. A son, J. Stafford Maher, is now a resident of Saginaw. He lives at 616 Irving street.
Captain Maher was born Dec. 12, 1853, in London, Ont., and came to Bay City with his parents in 1865. Since that time he has made his home here. For many years Captain Maher operated passenger and freight boats on the Saginaw river and between Great Lakes cities.
On Jan. 13, 1881, he married Miss Sarah Kain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kain of Saginaw. Mrs. Maher died several years ago. In the year 1887, Captain Maher was appointed steamboat inspector for the Port Huron district by President Grover Cleveland.
Funeral services will take place from St. James church in Bay City, at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning. Rev. Fr. John E. Troy will officiate and burial will be in Calvary cemtery, Saginaw.
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