Orin William Angwall

Orin William Angwall or Orin W. Angwall (September 18, 1890 – December 6, 1974) was an American lake captain, commercial fisherman, and politician.[1][2][3][4] He served in the Wisconsin legislature and was mayor of Marinette.

Orin William Angwall
BornSeptember 18, 1890
Marinette, Wisconsin, US
DiedDecember 6, 1974(1974-12-06) (aged 84)
Menoninee, Michigan, U.S.
Occupationlake captain, fisherman, politician
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Biography

Angwall was born in Marinette, Wisconsin.[5] He was a lake captain from 1912 to 1932[6] and later a commercial fisherman.[upper-alpha 1][upper-alpha 2] Angwall served on the Marinette common council and was mayor of Marinette in 1947 and 1948.[2][7]

Angwall served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1943 and 1945 as a Republican. He was a member of the Committee on Conservation and the Committee on Revision.[10][11][12] Angwall was a delegate to the 1944 Republican National Convention[13][14] However, in 1948, after initially leading at the polls,[15] he was defeated as a delegate.[7] Angwall also served on the Republican party's State Central Committee in the same year.[16]

Angwall served as president of the Marinette Chamber of Commerce and also on the Marinette city police and fire commission.[1] Later he was president of the Glenwood Pipeline Company in Arkansas City, Kansas. Angwall ultimately retired in Menominee, Michigan.[2]

Boats owned

He was the owner of the fishing schooner Hustler,[17][upper-alpha 3] which exploded and sank without loss of life in Green Bay in 1917.[19]

In 1927 he came to own the flat-bottomed scow schooner, City of Grand Haven, which was built by Duncan Robertson and was originally owned by Kirby, Furlong & Co.[20][21][upper-alpha 4]

He owned the J.H. Stevens, an 1859 schooner constructed by D. Edwards at Milan, Ohio. On June 10, 1927, while owned by Angwall, the ship burned near Presque Isle, Michigan. No lives were lost.[upper-alpha 5]

From 1944 to 1971, he owned the Kate A, a Fish Tug built by Marinette Marine Corporation.[27][28]

He was also the owner of a unique ship: the Mindemoya[upper-alpha 6] (Propeller) – later rechristened the Yankcanuck when it was owned by the Yankcanuck Transportation Company – which was the last composite constructed vessel sailing the Great Lakes.[upper-alpha 7]

Legacy

Angwall was married to Mary Ellen (née Maguire) Angwall. They had three children, two daughters – Margaret and Helen – and one son.[3][33][34] Their son, Robert O. Angwall, also became a Great Lakes Captain and Marinette businessman and civic leader.[35][36][37] Angwall died in Menoninee December 6, 1974.[2] His and Mary's remains are interred at Forest Home Cemetery in Marinette.[38]

Archival material
  • Orin W Angwall. "Hustler" (Archival material). WorldCat.[17][19]
  • Orin W Angwall, Captain.; C Tuxbury; Edward Hines Lumber Co.; F.W. Wheeler & Company (West Bay City, Mich.); Hamilton Transportation Company.; United States. Coast Guard.; Emba (Ship); W.H. Sawyer (Ship). "C.E. Redfern" (Archival material). WorldCat.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  • D Edwards; Joseph Blair; E Brouty; R Hanley; J Davis; A Chamberlain; A Morris; D Gibbs; L Gibbs; F Eickmeyer; W T Eickmeyer; John Olsen; Louis Olsen; D H Lakey; Peter Goodlet; Orin W Angwall, Captain. "J.H. Stevens" (Archival material). WorldCat.

References

Notes
  1. In 1948 he was badly injured when he became entangled in a flywheel as he picked up his fishing nets.[7] In 1953 while piloting the Four Brothers, he helped rescue Captain Lawrence Belanger, at the helm of Atlantis, after the fish tug's rear cutty and engine were damaged in a southwesterly blow. Angwall had to battle through 25 miles of Lake Superior's high seas and fierce wind to summon aid from Manistique, Michigan.[8]
  2. In 1949, as a local fish broker, he offered his opinion that the disappearance of smelt from local rivers was hard to explain.[9]
  3. "Oak schooner built in 1893 at Detroit, Mich. Owned by Capt. Orin Angwall. lost in 1917.... On Nov. 8, 1912, she burned near Peshtigo Harbor, Wis. Probably rebuilt. In 1917 she burned and sank at Menominee, Mich."[18]
  4. The City Of Grand Haven had two masts "set far apart to accommodate high piles of lumber on the deck and to make it easier to load and unload the vessel. This rig was called the Grand Haven Rig or (Jack Ass Rig)..." It was said to have been the result of a serendipity, when the master of a three-masted schooner had its mainmast removed due to rot, and found how well the ship sailed. There "were at least a dozen craft with this rig many of them in Lake Michigan." See Jackass-barque.[22]
  5. At Presque Isle, Michigan on June 10, 1927, the Sloop J.H. Stevens "burned to a total loss."[23][24][25] The J.H. Stevens had been involved in another accident. On October 20, 1881 the Lumber hooker Daisy Day (which was accident prone) was damaged at Sturgeon Bay "when struck by the schooner J.H. Stevens."[26]
  6. Perhaps named for Lake Mindemoya located within Manitoulin Island, which is the largest island in a freshwater lake (Lake Huron).[29]
  7. As The Maritime History of the Great Lakes wrote: "There are many ships on the Great Lakes on the Canadian side from 50 to 60 years old, but the YANKCANUCK, built in 1889 in Wyandotte Mich, is the only composite hull ship still in operation. A composite hull ship has oak planking about six to eight inches thick below the water line with steel frame and all steel above the water line."[30][31] "Her final dimensions were 256' 09" (78.26m) x 41' 00" (12.50m) x 22' 06" (6.86m); 1,813 GRT and powered by a 1,200 i.h.p. (883 KW) triple expansion steam engine iwht 2 coal-fired scotch boilers. Laid up in 1957 and scrapped in 1960, the Yankcanuck ... was the last vessel of composite construction sailing on the Great Lakes. The Yankcanuck name was derived from the fact that Captain Frank Manzzutti was a Canadian and his wife, an American."[32]

Citations
  1. Biographical Sketch of Orin W, Angwall (PDF). Wisconsin Blue Book 1946. p. 52. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  2. "Former Legislator From Marinette Dies". Ironwood Daily Globe. Ironwood, Michigan. December 9, 1974. p. 7. Retrieved May 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Angwall, Orin W." (PDF). Marinette Eagle Star. December 9, 1974. p. 1. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  4. "Orin W. Angwall". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  5. "Politicians who lived in Marinette County, Wisconsin". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  6. United States Steamboat Inspection Service (1914). List of Officers of Merchant Steam, Motor, and Sail Vessels Licensed During the Year ended June 30, 1914 for a Period of Five Years. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 179. Retrieved May 14, 2015.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  7. "Marinette Mayor Hurt". Waukesha Daily Freeman. Waukesha, Wisconsin. April 13, 1948. p. 3. Retrieved May 15, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Fish Tug Disabled in Storm; Towed 25 Miles to Port". The Escanaba Daily Press. Escanaba, Michigan. September 19, 1953. p. 2. Retrieved May 15, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. MacQuarrie, Gordon (April 14, 1949). "Erratic Smelt Have Dippers in a Dither". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 41. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  10. Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate (1943). Senate Manual, Wisconsin. p. 34. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  11. Journal of Proceedings of the Session of the Wisconsin Legislature. Wisconsin Legislature Assembly. 1945. p. 57. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  12. Wisconsin Senate Manual. Wisconsin Legislature. 1943. pp. 20, 34, 34. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  13. "Wisconsin Delegation to the 1944 Republican National Convention". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  14. "Wilkie Blanked Out; Dewey Big Winner". The Milwaukee Journal. April 5, 1944. p. 2. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  15. Results of the Election of April 1, 1948 Presidential Preference Primary and Delegate Vote in Wisconsin (PDF). Wisconsin Blue Book. p. 703. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  16. Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L. (ed.) (1948). The Wisconsin blue book (1948). p. 534. Retrieved May 15, 2015.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  17. Blue Book of American Shipping: Marine and Naval Directory of the United States; Statistics of Shipping and Shipbuilding in America,. 16. Google eBook, Marine Review Publishing Company. 1911. p. 64. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  18. "Hustler Official no.: 96219. Items in folder : ill., photos. ; 22 x 28 cm". Milwaukee Public Library. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  19. "HUSTLER (1893)". Wisconsin Shipwrecks. www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  20. "Duncan Robertson, Grand Haven MI". Shipbuilding History. http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/. January 12, 2011. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015. External link in |publisher= (help)
  21. "CITY OF GRAND HAVEN; 1872; Schooner; US33869" (Photograph). Great Lakes Maritime Database. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  22. SchoonerMan (March 4, 1999). "Scow Schooner City of Grand Haven". SchoonerMan. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  23. "J.H. Stevens, Official no.: 12787" (items in folder : ill., photos.; 22 x 28 cm.). ARCHIVEGRID. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  24. Blindauer, Debie (2008). "J. H. Stevens Steam Ship". Sheboygan County, Wisconsin Genealogy & History (photograph). Ancestry.com, RootsWeb.com. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  25. "J.H. Stevens". Great Lakes Vessels Online Index. Bowling Green State University. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  26. "Daisy Day". Michiganshipwrecks.org. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  27. "KATE A.". Great Lakes Vessels On Line Index. Bowling Green University. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  28. "Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette WI". Ship Building History. shipbuildinghistory.com. April 19, 2015. Archived from the original on December 7, 2011. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  29. "Largest Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island". ScienceRay. 9 July 2009. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
  30. "Mindemoya (Propeller)". maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes. April 24, 1948. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  31. "MINDEMOYA Now Is YANKCANUCK". Marinette Eagle Star. Marinette, Wisconsin. April 24, 1948.
  32. Wharton, George. "Great Lakes Fleet Page Vessel Feature -- Yankcanuck". boatnerd.com. Marine Historical Society of Detroit. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  33. Orin W Augwall 1930 United States Federal Census, accessed May 15, 2015
  34. "Orin W. Angwall". www.myheritage.com. Retrieved May 14, 2015.(subscription required)
  35. "Robert Orin Angwall". Eagle Herald. Marinette, Wisconsin. October 24, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  36. "Robert O. Angwall (obituary)". Peshtigo Times. October 23, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  37. "Angwall, Mrs. Orin W. (nee-Mary Ellen McGuire)" (PDF). Marinette Eagle Star. March 13, 1967. p. 1. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
  38. "Complete Burial Report" (PDF). Forest Home Cemetery and Mausoleum. April 16, 2012. pp. 27–28. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015.

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