Jean Lutz’s bond with Steamship ‘Mather’ began with childhood rides - A Life Story
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Posted by Alana Baranick | Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
As a youngster in the 1920s and ’30s, Jean Lutz went on boat rides with her grandfather on Lake Erie.
These weren’t typical boat rides.
The “boat” was the William G. Mather Steamship, then the flagship of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.’s Great Lakes shipping fleet. Lutz’s grandfather, Charles A. Anderson, was the Mather’s first captain.
The “boat rides” lasted for weeks, carrying iron ore and steel from Cleveland through the Great Lakes, loading and unloading at lakeside ports along the way.
