1. Captain George Edward Flavel was an Irish American maritime pilot and entrepreneur.
11 Facts About George Flavel
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George Flavel would go on to amass a fortune with a business managing pilot boats on the Columbia River, making him a prominent local figure, and one of the first millionaires in Oregon.
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At the time of his death in 1893, George Flavel had a net worth of nearly US$2 million.
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George Flavel sailed around Cape Horn and spent time in California during the state's Gold Rush era before relocating to Astoria, Oregon, then a settlement based around John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company.
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George Flavel settled in Astoria after a stint as captain of the brig John Petty.
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George Flavel began his career as a sea captain managing ship routes from the Pacific Ocean up the Columbia River and to the Willamette River.
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In January 1852, during a particularly strong gale, the SS General Warren lost its fore-topmast and began to leak near Astoria; George Flavel was unable to rescue the ship, and forty-two people aboard died with its sinking.
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In 1854, George Flavel married fourteen-year-old Mary Christina Boelling, whom he met at a hotel in Portland.
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George Flavel built a 11,600-square-foot Queen Anne mansion in Astoria in 1886.
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George Flavel died in 1893 with a reported net worth of $1.9 million.
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In 1897, George Flavel's body was relocated for interment at Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton, Oregon.