Capt. Frederick Way, Jr.

Captain Frederick Way, Jr., a riverman, author, historian, and America's foremost authority on inland waterways, lived near this spot on River Avenue. Reared in Edgeworth on land settled by the Way family before 1800, he was the first president of the Sewickley Valley Historical Society and served as summer editor of the Sewickley Herald. A pilot of steamboats large and small, he for a number of years owned and operated the packet boat Betsy Ann. Among his seven books about the rivers was The Saga of the Delta Queen, which recounts his role in bringing her from the west coast through the Panama Canal to the Mississippi River system. For fifty years he was president of the Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen and was the sponsor of the River Museum in Marietta, Ohio. After his death there, his ashes were carried upriver by Delta Queen for interment in Sewickley Cemetery.

Sewickley, Pennsylvania · United States