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1864, William Lent, a relative of Capron, was a master builder for the yard. Samuel Reams was master carpenter on the scow Times in 1858; S. G. Shaler, on the schooner Nightingale in 1856, and the bark Monitor in 1862; A. R. West on the scow Thomas Swain in 1863, and the scow L. May Guthrie in 1874; and Perry White, on several vessels between 1865 and. 1875. James P. Devney came from Ashtabula to build two vessels for Capron, the schooner Conneaut in 1873, and the scow Reporter in 1875. Capron built vessels in three different locations at Conneaut. One of these was Harmon's Landing (later known as Wood's Landing), directly in front of the present administration building for the Conneaut & Pittsburgh Dock Company. Another, known as Demmick's Landing, was on the east side of the Creek, just below the present New York Central Railroad viaduct. His last yard was located on the west side of the Creek directly across from the present location of huge electric hulett ore unloaders. In earlier years DeWolf's yard was probably in this location, too. The Panic of 1873 brought financial ruin to Marshal Capron. He died suddenly, of "cholera morbus," on October 9, 1884.13 His brother Orange died in 1919 at the very respectable age of 100 years. One of the most interesting vessels built by the Caprons was the three-masted bark C. E. Rosenberry in 1864. She was built for Tupper, Streiver & Horton, of Buffalo, but in 1865 was sold to Owen Bearse, and others, of Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was taken to the Atlantic Ocean and was lost in the latter part of 1866 while on a whaling voyage.14 Although a total of some sixty vessels were built at Conneaut between 1818 and 1892, the port itself could not be considered a major ship-building port. The shallowness of the water and the comparative lack of government appropriations for harbor development prevented this. Most of the vessels were built with local money for local people. Conneaut was not developed to a scale such as exists today until the 1890's. By that time steel had by-passed wood in the construction of ships. Ashtabula In 1700, the cartographer to the Prince of Wales, Aaron Arrowsmith, drew a map which included Northern Ohio. One of the principal rivers shown on this map was the "Ascubulu."15 Moses Cleaveland was so impressed with the river's beauty that he proposed naming it after his daughter, Mary Esther. This proposal lasted only as long as did the two gallons of wine that he provided for the occasion. 22