Posted by SFgenealogy on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 15:58:53 :

A PIONEER STEAMBOAT MAN GONE -
Charles MINTURN, closely identified with the early steamboating enterprises of California, and long the owner of the Oakland and San Quentin ferry lines, died at his residence in San Francisco on Monday.

Source: Contra Costa Times (Pacheco, CA), 31 May 1873.

Transcribed by Dee Sardoc.