1856 Enrolled Buffalo, New York
1856, September 20 Buffalo-Toledo line
1857, July Broke shaft, Lake Huron 10 miles below Point aux Barque;
back in service August
1857, September 9 Enrolled Mackinac, owned Joshua Whitington, et.al.;
sailing with Northwest Transportation Company,
Buffalo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin & Chicago, Illinois
1857, November Running Buffalo & Green Bay, Wisconsin
1858, November 6 Owned W.C.E. Thomas, et.al., Mackinac
1859, October 21 Enrolled Buffalo, owned John D. Shepard
1860 Enrolled Chicago
1860, April Owned A.W.Goodrich, to run Chicago-Green Bay weekly
1860, August In grain trade Buffalo & Oswego
1860, September Struck by unidentified vessel & run on reef 20 miles
south of Thunder Bay Island, Lake Huron; released &
towed to Detroit for complete overhaul (including
engine, boiler & machinery - hull plated with sheet
iron for winter use)
1860, November 21 Arrived Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1860, November 23 Chartered by Detroit & Milwaukee Railway Line,
departed for Grand Haven with freight & passengers
1860, November 24 Mistook Muskegon light for Grand Haven light & ran
on bar in storm; all crew, passengers & some cargo
saved; broke in two, complete wreck
