Thanks Jim, Beth, Jean, and Doneva!! Hope I didn't leave anyone out. Am sorry about the "Fritz" name. His name is really "Fred Devine". He was my grandmother's cousin through his wife and "Fritz" was what she called him. The address and website information and genealogical information is all VERY, VERY, MUCH APPRECIATED. I will follow up by phoning the company. I believe he only had daughters and that one or all of his sons-in-law remained in the business somehow. All I have is an article about him from a section of a book, about "Brave Men"..not sure if that's the title? Book dealt with Fred Devine; Samuel K. Barlow; and Sebastain Miller, among others. I suspect that living relatives of his family could help me tremendously with his wife's family (MATTOON) history. Again... I really appreciate how willingly and quickly everyone jumps in to offer such wonderful help. Jackie On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:21:48 -0800 Jim Tompkins <tompkins@bctonline.com> writes: > >If anyone out there has information about living relatives or new, > or > >biographical material about Frtiz Devine or the Devine Tug and > Barge > >Company, I would surely appreciate hearing from you. He apparently > grew > >up along the Columbia, lived in St. Johns area so wonder if > something > >about him would show up in Vanport history. I checked the site > >out--great site and interesting, but nothing about Devine. Thanks > for any > >suggestion or help. > >Jackie > > Found these in Portland directories: > > Fred Devine Diving & Salvage Co. > 6211 N Ensign St > Portland, OR > 503-283-5285 > Inspection, Repairs and Hull/Prop Cleaning > [This is in St Johns today - Did Fritz have a son named Fred?] > > In recent years Donjon [Marine out of New Jersey, 1997] has > expanded its towing and salvage interests to the West Coast by > taking > a 25 per cent share of Portland, Oregon-based Fred Devine Diving and > > Salvage, which operates the salvage tug Salvage Chief out of > Astoria, > Oregon. > > The barge, Columbia NY, and the tug, Atlantic Salvor, belong to the > New Jersey-based Donjon Marine Co., half of a joint venture with > Portland's Fred Devine Diving and Salvage Co. The companies have > been > hired to remove the New Carissa's stern. [The New Carissa is a > modern > Oregon legend.] >