GALENA, DUBUQUE, DUNLEITH AND MINNESOTA PACKET COMPANY

GALENA, DUBUQUE, DUNLEITH AND MINNESOTA PACKET COMPANY. Beginning operations in 1847 with one steamboat, the Argo, the "Galena Line" as it was called purchased other boats and consolidated with other packet companies to furnish a large and powerful transportation organization to the upper MISSISSIPPI RIVER prior to the CIVIL WAR. By 1863, however, economic depression, low water levels, and rate wars had reduced the value of the company's capital stock to the point that it no longer existed independently.

• Name: Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company

Area: 1856, U. Miss. R.

     1858, Dubuque-Dunleith,-St. Paul

Officers: 1856, Capts. Daniel S. Harris and Jones Worden

         1858, President, Capt. Orrin Smith; J.R. Jones, Secretary; S.E. Porter,
               Agent, Galena; J. Brenenian, agent, Dubuque.

Formed: 1856, from Galena, Dunleith and Minnesota Packet Company and

         Dubuque interests. 

Boats: 1856, FANNIE HARRIS and others from above company.

      1856-, NORTHERN BELLE, Capt. Jesse Y. Hurd
       **1858, NORTHERN LIGHT, Capt. Preston Lodwick; GALENA, Capt. W.H. Laughton; WAR EAGLE,
              Capt. W.H. Gabbert;
            KEY CITY, Capt. Jones Worden; GREY EAGLE, Capt. Daniel S. Harris
            FANNIE HARRIS, Capt. N.F. Webb; KATE CASSELL, Capt. Samuel Gray
            *KEOKUK

Captains associated with: 1856, Jones Worden, Daniel S. Harris, and others, above.

   *Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
   ** from Galena Gazette and Advertiser, 1858.

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