Captain
A. B. Gore was born in Maine in 1826 and begain sailing on the Atlantic,
where he served through 1848. Then he became mate of the brig Logan,
which was lost in the Gulf Stream enroute to Cuba.
He then joined a company of "Forty-Niners," who purchased a brig and sailed
for California with Gore as mate. On arrival at San Francisco in 1850,
he bought an interest in a ship with Dr. Samuel Merritt, made two trips
to the Columbia River and ran her to Puget Sound, where he traded for
eight years.
He was next in command of the bark Sarah Warren, remaining with
her until the sixties, when Dr. Merritt brought out the barques Sam
Merrill and Live Yankee. Gore made three voyages to China
and when Hunt and Scranton relinquished the Olympia and Victoria mail
route, Captain Gore bought the steamer Constitution and ran her
for three years, making several trips to San Francisco and finally selling
her there.
He next took command of the barque Glimpse and stranded her at
Clover Point, near Victoria. She was afterward floated and sold in Australia.
In I864 he brought the tug Cyrus Walker from San Francisco, operating
her on the Sound for four years. He returned to San Francisco, where he
was a bar pilot for two years, until a paralytic stroke forced him to
retire to Oakland, California
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