Captain Lovejoy Dies in Seattle
The sad news was received Monday that Captain Howard B. Lovejoy, of the Island Transportation Company, who was operated on recently for the removal of a tumor, had passed away at Seattle Sunday evening. Captain Lovejoy had been in failing health for some time and it was not known just what his trouble was until quite recently, and he was operated upon. He had grown too weak, however, to withstand the shock and expired at 9 o'clock Sunday evening.
Howard Bartlett Lovejoy was born in San Francisco, California, November 24, 1859. When but a boy he came to Whidby Island in company with his father, who was a deep sea captain, and the family settled at Coupeville. When sixteen years of age he returned to San Francisco and learned the trade of a ship carpenter with the firm of Middlemas & Boole. His trade being thoroughly mastered, he came back to the Sound and worked at his trade at Port Ludlow, Blakely and Seabuck. While at Ludlow Captain Lovejoy was married to Miss Lilliam M. Todd and the couple soon moved to Coupeville, where he became a contractor and builder, part of the time in conjunction with his brother Ed. of that place, and designed and built the Island county court house and lare residence of El J. Hancock and F. A. Le Sourd on Ebeys Prairie, the Kohne residence, J. W. Clapp's residence and numerous others. Mr. Lovejoy and his brother were also engaged for some time in the saw mill business in Coupeville.
Captain Lovejoy was not only one of the best ship designers and builders on the coast, but was familiar with every other part of the work and could command and sail a boat as well as build one. About fifteen years ago he and his family moved to Seattle and shortly afterwards he, in company with James Esary, the Byer Bros. and several others, organized the Island Transportation Company, whose boats have plied between the Island points and Seattle ever since. They built the steamers Camano, Whidby, Falcon, Calista, several smaller boats, and bought the steamer Fairhaven. All these boats were designed and most of them built by Captain Lovejoy.
Just after the entrance of the United States into war with Germany Captain Lovejoy and others organized the "Ballard Ship Building Co.," and he designed and built the schooner which bears his name, the H. B. Lovejoy, which is now plying in deep waters.
To mourn his death Captain Lovejoy leaves his wife, one daughter, Miss Leah; three sons, Captain Bartlett Lovejoy, Captain Ed. Lovejoy, and Stanley; his aged mother, Mrs. Calista Leach of Coupeville; two brothers, Ed. O. Lovejoy, of Coupeville, and Captain Ben Lovejoy, of Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Watson, of Coupeville, and Mrs. Kate Love, of Berkley, California, and a host of friends all over Puget Sound, who knew him for his many kindly qualities as a husband, father and citizen and whom it was a distinct pleasure to call a friend. He was an exceptionally bright man and a decided success in his chosen profession, cheerful and happy in his associations with his fellow men and his genial smile and cheerful greetings will be missed by hundreds who have know him so long and well.
The body was brought to Coupeville Wednesday on his own boat, the Calista, and interred in Sunnyside cemetery beside the father who preceded him years ago.
---Oak Harbor News, August 8, 1919
The sad news was received Monday that Captain Howard B. Lovejoy, of the Island Transportation Company, who was operated on recently for the removal of a tumor, had passed away at Seattle Sunday evening. Captain Lovejoy had been in failing health for some time and it was not known just what his trouble was until quite recently, and he was operated upon. He had grown too weak, however, to withstand the shock and expired at 9 o'clock Sunday evening.
Howard Bartlett Lovejoy was born in San Francisco, California, November 24, 1859. When but a boy he came to Whidby Island in company with his father, who was a deep sea captain, and the family settled at Coupeville. When sixteen years of age he returned to San Francisco and learned the trade of a ship carpenter with the firm of Middlemas & Boole. His trade being thoroughly mastered, he came back to the Sound and worked at his trade at Port Ludlow, Blakely and Seabuck. While at Ludlow Captain Lovejoy was married to Miss Lilliam M. Todd and the couple soon moved to Coupeville, where he became a contractor and builder, part of the time in conjunction with his brother Ed. of that place, and designed and built the Island county court house and lare residence of El J. Hancock and F. A. Le Sourd on Ebeys Prairie, the Kohne residence, J. W. Clapp's residence and numerous others. Mr. Lovejoy and his brother were also engaged for some time in the saw mill business in Coupeville.
Captain Lovejoy was not only one of the best ship designers and builders on the coast, but was familiar with every other part of the work and could command and sail a boat as well as build one. About fifteen years ago he and his family moved to Seattle and shortly afterwards he, in company with James Esary, the Byer Bros. and several others, organized the Island Transportation Company, whose boats have plied between the Island points and Seattle ever since. They built the steamers Camano, Whidby, Falcon, Calista, several smaller boats, and bought the steamer Fairhaven. All these boats were designed and most of them built by Captain Lovejoy.
Just after the entrance of the United States into war with Germany Captain Lovejoy and others organized the "Ballard Ship Building Co.," and he designed and built the schooner which bears his name, the H. B. Lovejoy, which is now plying in deep waters.
To mourn his death Captain Lovejoy leaves his wife, one daughter, Miss Leah; three sons, Captain Bartlett Lovejoy, Captain Ed. Lovejoy, and Stanley; his aged mother, Mrs. Calista Leach of Coupeville; two brothers, Ed. O. Lovejoy, of Coupeville, and Captain Ben Lovejoy, of Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Watson, of Coupeville, and Mrs. Kate Love, of Berkley, California, and a host of friends all over Puget Sound, who knew him for his many kindly qualities as a husband, father and citizen and whom it was a distinct pleasure to call a friend. He was an exceptionally bright man and a decided success in his chosen profession, cheerful and happy in his associations with his fellow men and his genial smile and cheerful greetings will be missed by hundreds who have know him so long and well.
The body was brought to Coupeville Wednesday on his own boat, the Calista, and interred in Sunnyside cemetery beside the father who preceded him years ago.
---Oak Harbor News, August 8, 1919
Captain Lovejoy Dies in Seattle
The sad news was received Monday that Captain Howard B. Lovejoy, of the Island Transportation Company, who was operated on recently for the removal of a tumor, had passed away at Seattle Sunday evening. Captain Lovejoy had been in failing health for some time and it was not known just what his trouble was until quite recently, and he was operated upon. He had grown too weak, however, to withstand the shock and expired at 9 o'clock Sunday evening.
Howard Bartlett Lovejoy was born in San Francisco, California, November 24, 1859. When but a boy he came to Whidby Island in company with his father, who was a deep sea captain, and the family settled at Coupeville. When sixteen years of age he returned to San Francisco and learned the trade of a ship carpenter with the firm of Middlemas & Boole. His trade being thoroughly mastered, he came back to the Sound and worked at his trade at Port Ludlow, Blakely and Seabuck. While at Ludlow Captain Lovejoy was married to Miss Lilliam M. Todd and the couple soon moved to Coupeville, where he became a contractor and builder, part of the time in conjunction with his brother Ed. of that place, and designed and built the Island county court house and lare residence of El J. Hancock and F. A. Le Sourd on Ebeys Prairie, the Kohne residence, J. W. Clapp's residence and numerous others. Mr. Lovejoy and his brother were also engaged for some time in the saw mill business in Coupeville.
Captain Lovejoy was not only one of the best ship designers and builders on the coast, but was familiar with every other part of the work and could command and sail a boat as well as build one. About fifteen years ago he and his family moved to Seattle and shortly afterwards he, in company with James Esary, the Byer Bros. and several others, organized the Island Transportation Company, whose boats have plied between the Island points and Seattle ever since. They built the steamers Camano, Whidby, Falcon, Calista, several smaller boats, and bought the steamer Fairhaven. All these boats were designed and most of them built by Captain Lovejoy.
Just after the entrance of the United States into war with Germany Captain Lovejoy and others organized the "Ballard Ship Building Co.," and he designed and built the schooner which bears his name, the H. B. Lovejoy, which is now plying in deep waters.
To mourn his death Captain Lovejoy leaves his wife, one daughter, Miss Leah; three sons, Captain Bartlett Lovejoy, Captain Ed. Lovejoy, and Stanley; his aged mother, Mrs. Calista Leach of Coupeville; two brothers, Ed. O. Lovejoy, of Coupeville, and Captain Ben Lovejoy, of Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Watson, of Coupeville, and Mrs. Kate Love, of Berkley, California, and a host of friends all over Puget Sound, who knew him for his many kindly qualities as a husband, father and citizen and whom it was a distinct pleasure to call a friend. He was an exceptionally bright man and a decided success in his chosen profession, cheerful and happy in his associations with his fellow men and his genial smile and cheerful greetings will be missed by hundreds who have know him so long and well.
The body was brought to Coupeville Wednesday on his own boat, the Calista, and interred in Sunnyside cemetery beside the father who preceded him years ago.
---Oak Harbor News, August 8, 1919
The sad news was received Monday that Captain Howard B. Lovejoy, of the Island Transportation Company, who was operated on recently for the removal of a tumor, had passed away at Seattle Sunday evening. Captain Lovejoy had been in failing health for some time and it was not known just what his trouble was until quite recently, and he was operated upon. He had grown too weak, however, to withstand the shock and expired at 9 o'clock Sunday evening.
Howard Bartlett Lovejoy was born in San Francisco, California, November 24, 1859. When but a boy he came to Whidby Island in company with his father, who was a deep sea captain, and the family settled at Coupeville. When sixteen years of age he returned to San Francisco and learned the trade of a ship carpenter with the firm of Middlemas & Boole. His trade being thoroughly mastered, he came back to the Sound and worked at his trade at Port Ludlow, Blakely and Seabuck. While at Ludlow Captain Lovejoy was married to Miss Lilliam M. Todd and the couple soon moved to Coupeville, where he became a contractor and builder, part of the time in conjunction with his brother Ed. of that place, and designed and built the Island county court house and lare residence of El J. Hancock and F. A. Le Sourd on Ebeys Prairie, the Kohne residence, J. W. Clapp's residence and numerous others. Mr. Lovejoy and his brother were also engaged for some time in the saw mill business in Coupeville.
Captain Lovejoy was not only one of the best ship designers and builders on the coast, but was familiar with every other part of the work and could command and sail a boat as well as build one. About fifteen years ago he and his family moved to Seattle and shortly afterwards he, in company with James Esary, the Byer Bros. and several others, organized the Island Transportation Company, whose boats have plied between the Island points and Seattle ever since. They built the steamers Camano, Whidby, Falcon, Calista, several smaller boats, and bought the steamer Fairhaven. All these boats were designed and most of them built by Captain Lovejoy.
Just after the entrance of the United States into war with Germany Captain Lovejoy and others organized the "Ballard Ship Building Co.," and he designed and built the schooner which bears his name, the H. B. Lovejoy, which is now plying in deep waters.
To mourn his death Captain Lovejoy leaves his wife, one daughter, Miss Leah; three sons, Captain Bartlett Lovejoy, Captain Ed. Lovejoy, and Stanley; his aged mother, Mrs. Calista Leach of Coupeville; two brothers, Ed. O. Lovejoy, of Coupeville, and Captain Ben Lovejoy, of Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Watson, of Coupeville, and Mrs. Kate Love, of Berkley, California, and a host of friends all over Puget Sound, who knew him for his many kindly qualities as a husband, father and citizen and whom it was a distinct pleasure to call a friend. He was an exceptionally bright man and a decided success in his chosen profession, cheerful and happy in his associations with his fellow men and his genial smile and cheerful greetings will be missed by hundreds who have know him so long and well.
The body was brought to Coupeville Wednesday on his own boat, the Calista, and interred in Sunnyside cemetery beside the father who preceded him years ago.
---Oak Harbor News, August 8, 1919
