Buffalo Captain's Body is Found
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- Buffalo Commercial, 15 Oct 1921, p. 11, column 4
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- Buffalo Captain's Body is Found
Special to the Buffalo Commercial:
TONAWANDA, Oct. 15 -- Assessor Barclay M. Potts, master of Tonawanda Lodge 247, F. & A. M., was notified yesterday that the body of Captain Knut Peterson, Buffalo, lost with other members of his crew when the barge Miztec went to the bottom of Lake Superior Friday May 13th, off White Fish Point, has been found. Pederson was a member of Tonawanda lodge and a former resident of Tonawanda. The body will be brought to Tonawanda for burial. The local lodge of Masons will have charge of the funeral.
The body of Captain Peterson was the last of the drowned crew to be a recovered. He was found by an Indian Fisherman near the Soo Islands, Lake Superior. Identification was established through papers found in his pockets. Captain Pederson's family lives at 205 Goodell street, Buffalo.
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- Newspaper
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- Date of Publication
- 15 Oct 1921
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Pederson, Knut
- Language of Item
- English
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