Helen DeFoe with "The History of the Defoe Shipbuilding Business"

Name: Helen DeFoe with "The History of the Defoe Shipbuilding Business"
Start: 2025-04-19T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 4101 Wilder Rd, Bay City, MI, United States, Michigan 48706

Schedule

Sat, 19 Apr, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

4101 Wilder Rd, Bay City, MI, United States, Michigan 48706 | Bay City, MI

Please Note: The location for this presentation is not at our usual location of Bay City’s Trinity Episcopal Church. It will be at the SRMHS Museum and Store in the Bay City Town Center.
April 2024 Saginaw River Marine Historical Society presentation
FREE program: Helen DeFoe with "The History of the Defoe Shipbuilding Business"
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: The Saginaw River Marine Historical Society Museum and Store (located next to Zales Jewelers) in the Bay City Town Center (formerly known as Bay City Mall). Bay City Town Center address is 4101 E. Wilder Rd., Bay City, Michigan 48706.
Helen DeFoe is a great-niece of Harry J. Defoe of Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City. She will discuss the genealogy of the Defoe family and their shipbuilding business that existed in Bay City from 1905 to 1976. She will outline family leaders of the business and some members not in the shipbuilding trade. Helen will also talk about the times she has spent on Defoe Island, located in the Saginaw Bay.
(From Helen DeFoe: "...so to this day Harry's [Defoe] descendants still use the lowercase f in their last name. I'm [Helen DeFoe] descending from Harry's brother Art, so we and the rest of the family use the uppercase F...")
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The public is welcome!
Light refreshments will be available during an intermission.
Please use the Fifth Street entrance at the back of the church.
A Google Map showing the location of Trinity Episcopal Church: https://tinyurl.com/mw9fpykn
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The Saginaw River Marine Historical Society (SRMHS) is an all volunteer organization interested in the maritime history of the Saginaw River and its connecting waters. We have seven monthly presentations a year and they start at 6:30 pm on the third Saturday of each month USUALLY at Trinity Episcopal Church, 815 N. Grant St. (and Center Ave.), Bay City, Michigan (unless there is a different location / day / time for a specific presentation). Customarily, there are no presentations in May, June, July, August and December.
Photo of Helen DeFoe, taken at the Saginaw River Marine Historical Society Museum and Store in October 2024.
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