"Timothy Dwight Wilcox died yesterday....
Of late years it has been the quiet claim of the commodore that he was the oldest steamboat man in active service in the United States.
The records show that when but a boy of fifteen he began his successful business career in April 1818 as a cabin boy on the Hudson River steamboat, the 'Patagon.' After a service of four years he passed over to the steamboats then running on the Sound. Pushing his way up through subordinate places he finally became captain of the 'Fulton' in 1831. He remained on the waters of the Sound until 1842 at which period he came to Ithaca and invested his savings in the purchase of an interest in steamboats then plying on Cayuga Lake.....
Since 1842, he has lived in Ithaca, excepting an interval of some four or five years, during which long period he has been the manager and either the largest or sole owner of the Cayuga Lake steamboats."