Charles Bostwick

b. 11 February 1859, d. February 1892
  • Charles Bostwick was born on 11 February 1859 in Connecticut.
  • John Robert Bostwick and Helen Campbell Bass appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Charles Bostwick, Mary Menard Bostwick, John Orleans Bostwick and Maude Helen Bostwick.
  • The Bostwick family -- Mr. Jno. R, Mrs. Helen C. (Minard), Charles (age 18), Mar Minard (age 15), John Orleans (age 11), Helen Maude (age 7) -- were entered in the St. Mark's Episcopal church register about 1877, based upon the ages of the children.
  • John Robert Bostwick and Helen Campbell Bass appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Charles Bostwick, Mary Menard Bostwick, John Orleans Bostwick and Maude Helen Bostwick.
  • He was a clerk in a store, according to the 1880 census.
  • Charles Bostwick died in February 1892 "lost at sea."
  • The following appeared on 24 February 1892 in The New York Herald: No tidings have been received of those who were on board the yacht Rosa Scarborough, which, as told in the Herald on February 16, was found capsized five miles from Malco Inlet, Fla., on February 13 by the schooner New Venice, of Key West.
         The party was composed of Charles Bostwick, of Brunswick, Ga., the principal owner of the wrecked vessel; John H. Balmer, who had a third interest in the boat; Andrew J. Mason, a young business man, and Captain A. L. Fitch, of Fernandina, Fla., the sailing master.
         Mrs. John R. Bostwick, the widowed mother of Charles Bostwick, is now stopping at No. 130 East Ninety-ninth street, this city, with her grown up son and daughter. She has a home in Brunswick, but came here to be treated by specialists for a nervous disease of long standing. She is confined to her bed, and her mental agony is accentuated by the uncertainty regarding the fate of her missing son. Her other son visits the shipping houses daily, hoping to get some news to comfort his stricken mother.
         Young Bostwick was formerly a resident of this city, and gained his business education here as a clerk in two wholesale grocery establishments. His health was delicate, and he preferred an outdoor life to the close confinement of a mercantile pursuit.
         He was thirty-three years old and his literary tastes were strongly developed. He had been commissioned to write a series of articles on his last cruise for Outing.
         Messers. Balmer and Mason lived in Brunswick, from which point the ill-fated vessel sailed, about January 15, on a cruise which was expected to extend well into the fall, as they intended to visit the Gulf ports of this country and of Mexico, the West Indian islands and all the summer resorts along the Atlantic coast as far north as Mount Desert.
         The Rosa Scarborough is a schooner of about five tons burden and is well fitted for deep sea cruising, for although she has been in the hand of her present owners for a few months only, she had done duty for a long time previous as a pilot boat off the coast of Georgia.
         When found she had all sails set, indicating that she must have been hit by a big wave or a sudden squall. Her dingy was gone, although the oars were found in their place, and it is upon this fact that the friends of the voyagers base hopes of their safety.
         The officers of the Morgan and Plant steamship lines, which run near the scene of the disaster, have been asked to keep a sharp lookout for the castaways.
  • Last Edited: 19 May 2011