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| | Captain John MacKenzie |
 | | Captain John MacKenzie, a resident of Fulton, and Master of the steamer “Siver Wave,” of the Van Sant and 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. |
 | | 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. |
 | | MacKenzie was married near Creston, Iowa, Dec 14, 1880, to Miss Abbie E. Devore, daughter of John and Josephine (Smith) Devore. |
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