Enos Taylor (Towboat/Packet, 1893-1912)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Towboat/Packet
BUILT: Higginsport, Ohio, 1893
FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at De Koven, Kentucky, March 15, 1912
OWNERS: Captain Robert Taylor; Captain E. E. Eisenbarth (1902); Bruns-Bokersox Lumber Company (1904)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River; Kentucky River; Wabash River; Saline River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - T0746; Built by Captain Robert Taylor and named for his son; she ran briefly in the Madison-Monterey packet trade up Kentucky River. In 1895 she delivered new barges built at Madison, Indiana for the U. S. Corps of Engineers to St. Louis and Natchez. On February 25, 1902 she was sold to Captain E. E. Eisenbarth at New Orleans and she towed his showboat, Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre, through the 1904 season. She was sold December 9, 1904 to the Bruns-Bokersox Lumber Company, Shawneetown, Illinois, to tow logs on the Wabash and Saline Rivers. She burned at De Koven, Kentucky, March 15, 1912
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