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Show Homestead after a river career which Included nearly all of his 79 years. He was the first captain to obtain a r license for a steamboat In Plttsbnrg. He was tho father-in-law of Speaker John F. Oox of the house of representatives repre-sentatives and was well known among river men from here to New Orleans. FIRST MAN TO FLOAT COAL ON MISSISSIPPI Pittsburg, Pa.; Fob. 21. Captain Abrism C. Arkord, who floated coal to New Orleans long before the steamboat mi used on the Ohio and Mississippi, lg dead at his home lu |