Seavey was notorious for altering sea lights, either by extinguishing existing lights or placing false lights. Seavey also kidnapped or transported women in the illegal prostitution trade, an early form of human trafficking and sex trafficking. Seavey sailed the Wanderer as a legitimate shipping operation, but also sailed into ports at night to steal cargo from other vessels and warehouses. In Escanaba, Seavey acquired a schooner, which he named the Wanderer, and began a career as a pirate. The two divorced within four years, and Seavey would marry a third wife, Annie Bradley, many years later. He briefly returned to Milwaukee, but abandoned his family again and moved to Escanaba, Michigan, where he married a second wife, Zilda Bisner. He was unsuccessful, and returned to the Great Lakes region around 1900. In 1898, Seavey left his family in Milwaukee to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush. The family later moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Seavey fished, farmed and owned a local saloon. He moved near Marinette, Wisconsin in the late 1880s, where he married Mary Plumley and had two daughters. ![]() He left home at age 13 and became a sailor, serving for a short time in the United States Navy. Seavey was born in Portland, Maine, on March 23, 1865. ![]() marshal, thief, poacher, smuggler, hijacker, human trafficker, and timber pirate in Wisconsin and Michigan and on the Great Lakes in the late 19th to early 20th century. Lake piracy, in Wisconsin and Michigan, on the Great Lakes, from the late 19th to early 20th centuryĭan Seavey, also known as "Roaring" Dan Seavey, (Ma– February 14, 1949) was a sailor, fisherman, farmer, saloon keeper, prospector, U.S. marshal, thief, poacher, smuggler, hijacker, human trafficker, lake pirate Sailor, fisherman, farmer, saloonkeeper, prospector, U.S. Forest Home Cemetery, Marinette, Marinette County, Wisconsin
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