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Their reasons are not known, but George Washington Jones's contributions to shipbuilding are well remembered. He must be credited with the first side launching on the Great Lakes, a practice that became common in later years. He also is credited with designing the "bishop arch," a bridge-like arch so common to early wooden steamers, designed to keep the hull from "working." George Washington Jones died in Cleveland on October 9, 1894, at the age of eighty-two. In 1844, another firm joined the Cleveland shipbuilding fraternity - that of Sanford and Moses. Daniel Sanford was born in Milford, Connecticut in 1803. He learned the trade of ship joiner in New York shipyards and moved to Cleveland in 1834. He and Luther Moses continued in business until 1849 when Sanford dissolved the partnership to enter the wholesale lumber business. He died in Cleveland on September 22, 1864. However, in those five years, 1844 to 1849, this firm built at least a dozen sailing vessels, a like number of steamers, and innumerable canal boats. Their yard was on the Old River Bed, at a point on the south side of the channel, just west of the old Willow Street bridge, opposite Elm Street. Their first vessel, the brig Ashland, was launched on March 16, 1844. Their first steamer was the Victory, launched on March 10, 1845. The schooner Charles Y. Richmond, launched by Sanford and Moses in l846, was described as "a craft of 250 tons, and her beautiful model and just proportions fill the eye of an 'old salt' with a pleasure second only to the smile of a lass of his heart."51 Stephen C. DeGrote and J. E. Levayes built vessels intermittently from 1846 through 1858, turning out perhaps ten vessels in that time. There is a possibility, however, that they were master carpenters for one of the already listed established builders, as little more than their names are mentioned. Levayes was building for Luther Moses in 1855. There is a possibility that some of the shipbuilding firms already mentioned in Cleveland may have used the same shipyard facilities, especially those in the area of the Old River Bed, as is suggested by a notice in the Herald in 1847: The Ohio Shipbuilding co. of Ohio City during the past year constructed three propellers, two brigs, and 20 schooners.52 Altogether that year, in the District of Cuyahoga, there were built five brigs, twenty-seven schooners, four scows, two steamboats, and three propellers, representing about 9,000 tons, and valued at $442,000.53 This would include, however, the towns in Ohio from Conneaut to Black River. Again the Herald took credit for Cleveland's accomplishments, for as early as 1846 it had forecast: 35