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Ne'er was made to live alone - Therefore marriages were know. - Com. (A choice lot of cake accompanied the above for which, the Captain and his Mate have our best wishes). Many vessels were built at the Capron yard, where Marshall was assisted by his brother Orange F. (1827-1919). During the years, 1864 to 1875, many different builders worked at the yard including William Lent, the master builder for the yard, who was related to Capron, as well as Samuel Reams, S. G. Shaler, A. R. West, Perry White and James P. Devney. One of the noted vessels to be launched at the yard was the three-masted bark C. E. Rosenberry in 1864. Originally built for Tupper, Streiver & Horton, she was sold to Owen Bearse, et al. of Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was lost in the Atlantic in 1866 on a whaling expedition. Captain Marshall Capron passed from this life on October 8, 1884 and is buried in Center Cemetery, Conneaut, Ohio. The following obituary pays tribute to this estimable man. Obituary 7 Oct 1884 Capt. Marshall Capron Captain Marshall Capron, an old and experienced lake navigator and shipbuilder, died at his residence in Conneaut, Ohio, on Tuesday, the 7th inst., after a brief illness, at the age of 68. Captain Capron's history is well known to many of our readers and is one of peculiar interest, involving as it does, the struggles of a poor and friendless boy to attain position and wealth, which after having been secured and enjoyed for a time, is speedily swept away, the former by the dread destroyer, and the latter by the ever varying tides of business. From boyhood the love of a sailor's life was his one great passion, and led to its early adoption as his lifelong profession. In the fall and winter of 1831-32, in company with H. C. Walker, of this place, the schooner J. B. Skinner, 100 tons was built, and young Capron as her commander sailed proudly out of the harbor with his first vessel. In 1847 Captain Capron was appointed to the command of the brig Banner, which came out new that year, and which sailed until the year 1859, when he practically retired from active life on the lakes, but continued to build and fit out other vessels, among which was the scow Times, sixty tons built during the winter of 1859-60. This was followed by the bark Monitor, 500 tons, in the years 1861-62, a splendid vessel in those days. The schooner Ann Maria, 450 tons, followed during 1863-64, and then the bark Valentine, 800 tons, and T. B. Rice 300 tons in the years 1868-69. His last ventures were the schooners Conneaut, 99 tons, and M. Capron, 100 tons built during the years 1873-1875. The building of the last two proved disastrous to him financially, coming out as they did, during the years of commercial depression that followed. He struggled along with that iron will so characteristic of the man, but in 1877, through force of 184