This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Herman,Larmont Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VEC.2ACI/3711 Message Board Post: Everett Daily Herald Two months short of his 92nd birthday, Captain Joseph F. Smith, sailor, inventor, shipbuilder and owner and long identified with the road business on the Riverside of Everett, died at an Everett hospital Sunday morning. A short time ago he fell and fractured a hip an injury from which he never recovered. Born in Scotland January 18, 1847 Captain Smith early went to sea accompanying his parents on the long trip across the Atlantic Ocean when they came to North America in 1853 settling first in Canada. In 1864 the family migrated to Chicago making the trip by boat via the Great Lakes. The voyage was beset with danger and their ship was rammed and sunk but the accident didn’t cause the young man’s love for ships and sailing for that same year he became a deckhand on a Great Lakes schooner. He rose rapidly in his chosen trade and in 1866 became an owner of a ship which he later sold. In 1870 he built his first ship a schooner and in the preceding years he o! wned may including one steamer. In 1902 Captain Smith came to Everett and that year at the Eclipse mill he built a tugboat for service on the Snohomish river. He later sold the boat and became the manager of the company that purchased the craft from him. For many years he worked on the river and conducted stores on the Riverside, his final retail establishment being a small store he constructed in the front of his home at 2431 Pine street, which store he operated until about a year ago. Captain Smith was a member of the First Presbyterian church and of Pilgrim lodge No.187 I.O.O.F., of Everett. He is survived by two sons, Clarence and Charles both of Everett, two daughters Mrs. Anna Herman of 2510 Lombard avenue and Mrs. Ida Williams of Montery Park, CA; a brother George Smith of Blubber Bay, B.C. seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:00 o’clock at the chapel of Challacombe & Fickel. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery Mr. Smith was researched as a possible Civil war vet because of his date of birth but found that he did not come to US until 1864. His funeral records note parents James Smith & Janette Larmont. of Scotland.He was born 1/18/1847 in Dumries Scotland. 1910 Snohomish Co. WA census notes his wife name as Alice age 55 b/England.