From History of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin - 1881, Volume 1, Page 493-494

CAPTAIN EDWARD STAMFORD, Keeper of Spring-street bridge, is a native of Sussex, England, where his father is still living at the age of 91 years.  The captain first went to sea in 1840, and served four years' apprenticeship in the coal trade on the coast of England.  He sailed for a number of years from London and Liverpool, in merchant vessels.  He also sailed on the Mediterranean and Black seas, the West Indies, and to the coast of South America, where he went as mate of a ship.  He then shipped for New Orleans, and returned to Liverpool in July, 1850.  He then came to America in the same year, and commenced sailing on the lakes from the port of Racine, and soon after became mate of the schooner "Lewis C. Irwin."  In 1853 he came to Milwaukee from which port he sailed as mate of the brig "Helfenstein."  The following season he was master of the "Juniatta Patton," and commanded the "Helfenstein" in 1855.  For the next six seasons he sailed the "Jesse Hoyt," and in 1862 fitted out the "News Boy," belonging to Jesse HOYT, which he commanded until the close of the season of 1863, when he left the lakes and settled on his farm, four miles from this city, where he resided for sixteen years.  In 1879 Captain STAMFORD sold his farm and moved into the city.  On May 1, 1880, he was appointed to his present position as bridge tender.  The captain was married, July 10, 1850, and buried his wife and infant child in Racine, May 22, 1852.  May 22, 1855 he married Miss Barbara, daughter of Captain James STEWART, of this city.  She was born August 11, 1833 and came to America with her parents from Scotland, in 1839.  They lived in Erie, Pa., until 1844, when they moved to Chicago, coming to Milwaukee in 1847, where she has since lived.  They have two sons and two daughters: James E., born February 26, 1856; Martha A., born September 23, 1857; Hattie A., born November 10, 1861, and Stewart A., born January 10, 1872.  George A., born September 6, 1859; died September 28, 1878.

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