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An authority on vessel design
John E. Poole was born in New York state in 1884. He graduated from Union High School on Mackinac Island in 1901. A mechanical engineer by trade, he worked with the Emergency Fleet Corporation during World War I. He eventually taught high school in Van Dyke, MI, and died on June 19, 1954, at age 70. Throughout his life, Poole amassed data on maritime issues to add to information he began compiling in 1898 while living on Mackinac Island. By the early 1950s, he was a recognized authority on Great Lakes vessel design. He served as a consultant for the MHSD book Ships that Never Die and other marine-oriented research projects. His wife, Queenie Poole, assisted in preserving his collection by donating it in 1956 to the Marine Historical Society of Detroit. The John E. Poole Collection was donated to the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes at Bowling Green State University in 1989.
John E. Poole was born in New York state in 1884. He graduated from Union High School on Mackinac Island in 1901. A mechanical engineer by trade, he worked with the Emergency Fleet Corporation during World War I. He eventually taught high school in Van Dyke, MI, and died on June 19, 1954, at age 70. Throughout his life, Poole amassed data on maritime issues to add to information he began compiling in 1898 while living on Mackinac Island. By the early 1950s, he was a recognized authority on Great Lakes vessel design. He served as a consultant for the MHSD book Ships that Never Die and other marine-oriented research projects. His wife, Queenie Poole, assisted in preserving his collection by donating it in 1956 to the Marine Historical Society of Detroit. The John E. Poole Collection was donated to the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes at Bowling Green State University in 1989.
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Born in in New York state in 1884, John E. Poole graduated from Union High School on Mackinac Island in 1901. A mechanical engineer by trade, he worked with the Emergency Fleet Corp. during World War I. He eventually taught at the ...
