John C. Walker
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Bugeye
Year: 1881
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Location: Crisfield
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Catalog # | Object Name | Title | Artist/Maker | Date Made | Place Made | Description | Full Image | CBMM Cat. Page |
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| 1 | 8888.0015.0000.00 | documents | Edward Griffith Dodson (1884 - ) Research Notes | Range, Exa 01/01/1965 - 12/31/1967 | Edward Griffith Dodson (1884 - ) Research Notes (1965 - 1967) Notes compiled by E. Griffith Dodson while researching the steamboat olive, once owned by the Dodson family.Biographical BackgroundThe Dodson family was prominent in St. Michaels history, especially in the 19th century. The family owned and operated a steamboat out of St. Michaels, Olive, a drug store, the St. Michaels Comet, and its members served as state senators and town commissioners (see ms 2, ms 12, ms 13).E. Griffith Dodson was born in Norfolk on April 30, 1884 and married Harriote Jones Winchester in 1913. He was the son of Robert Ad&lphus Dodson (1861 - 1913) and Julia E. Griffith. He started oft as a lawyer in Norfolk, looking after most of the Dodson family interests in the area. Dodson later became Vice-President and First Officer of the Seaboard Citizens National Bank and finished his career as Clerk of the House of Delegates, Richmond, Virginia.While serving as Clerk he became interested in historical research and published several works on the Capitol and the Virginia General Assembly. He also started to accumulate information on the steamboat Olive that was owned by Richard Stearns Dodson from 1876 to approximately 1891. Henry Clay Dodson acted as General Agent while Edward N. Dodson was the master. (see Weather Gauge, vol 21, no. 2)The papers were donated by his son, E. Griffith Dodson, Jr. Scope and ContentThe material includes hand-written and typed notes by E. Griffith Dodson, newspaper articles, photocopied documents, and correspondence regarding the career of the olive. Most of the dated material is from 1965.The Olive was built by the Atlantic Iron Works and Dock Company, Norfoolk', Virginia, in 1869 for Gilbert C. Walker. From 1876 to approximately 1891, she was owned by the Dodson family and traded between Baltimore and St. Michaels. The olive was sold to theDodson Papers, page 2the Albemarle Steam Navigation Company but was sunk in a violent storm on February 16, 1903 with the loss of 17 lives. She was later raised and renamed Hertford, owned by the same company, and was dismantled at Newport News in 1911.These papers are useful as they add considerable information to that already existing on the history of the olive, particularly in the latter years.Subjects:Dodson Family; Olive, Steamboats, Chesapeake Bay. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 2 | 8888.0090.0000.00 | documents | Penso Papers | This collection begins on CSC 15B1 and continues on 15B2, 15B3, and 15B4. One oversize folder is located in RR FF 3; the contents have 2 copies and a negative of sketch of two people in the Racing dinghy Penguin. | No image URL. | View |
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