Louise (Packet, 1908-1920)

Photographer

Lomen Bros.

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Gas Boat/Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1908 at Parkersburg, West Virginia
• BECAME: Renamed Jos. S. Chotin, 1920
• OWNERS: 1908: Captain Hiram Douglass; 1919: Captain Newton Price; 1920: Captain Joe Chotin
• OFFICERS & CREW: 1908: Captain Hiram Douglass; 1919: Captain Newton Price, Albert Price (pilot), C.S. Bell (clerk)
• RIVERS: Muskingum River; Little Kanawha River; Kanawha River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 3588; The Louise was named for the wife of Captain Hiram Douglass. She was originally a gasoline-powered packet and ran Zanesville-McConnelsville on the Muskingum River. In 1911, she was rebuilt and converted to a steam packet. Under Captain Douglass she ran the Little Kanawha, Parkersburg-Creston and sometimes to Grantsville, West Virginia. June 1917 she tried the Charleston-Montgomery trade on the Kanawha River and in early 1919 was again in Zanesville-McConnelsville trade. She was the last steamboat to operate between Zanesville and McConnelville. In July, 1920 she was sold to Captain Joe Chotin who docked her at Mound City, Illinois and changed her name to Jos. S. Chotin. He used her as a towboat