Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....MacKenzie, Captain John 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Captain John MacKenzie, a resident of Fulton, and Master of the 
steamer "Silver Wave," of the Van Sant & Musser line, plying between 
Stillwater, Minn., and Muscatine, Iowa, is a native of Whiteside Co., Ill., 
being born in the town of Ustick, July 3, 1850. His parents, John and Margaret 
(Ritchie) MacKenzie, were born in the Highlands of Scotland and came to this 
county in 1843. John was reared on his father's farm, and when 18 years of 
age, or in 1868, he engaged as a deck hand on a Mississippi River steamer. 
Before the expiration of two years he had qualified himself for the position 
of pilot, and sailed as such. In 18— he purchased a third interest in the 
steamer "Wm. White" and became her Captain. He afterwards built and commanded 
the steamer "Eclipse." He sold out his steamboat interests in the spring of 
1883, since which time he has sailed the "Sam Atlee" and the "Silver Wave." 
Capt. MacKenzie was married near Creston, Iowa, Dec. 14, 1880, to Miss Abbie 
E. Devore, daughter of John and Josephine (Smith) Devore. Mrs. MacKenzie was 
born near Mt. Carroll, Carroll Co , Ill. The Captain is a staunch 
Prohibitionist, of Republican antecedents. He is Chairman of the Prohibition 
County Committee, and was the Prohibition candidate for Representative in the 
late campaign. He is a member of Fulton City Lodge, No. 189, A. F. & A. M. 
Mrs. MacKenzie is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Captain 
MacKenzie has worked up through all grades of a boatman's duties from the 
lowest to the highest, and has long been classed among the most popular and 
skillful of the Mississippi steamboat Captains. He has made his home at 
Fulton, Ill., since 1881.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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