Back again....

Finally got a copy of Captain John D. Whidden's seafaring book: "Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days From Forecastle to Quarter-Deck and enjoyed it immensely. He covers his life from age twelve, when living with his maternal grandparents in Marblehead, MA twenty-five years later when sailing is no longer a profitable enterprise for American boats.

I've tracked his and third wife's graves to Evergreen cemetery in Los Angeles. It seem there were no children.

I highly recommend the book and note there is a second edition published after his death in 1922 with a longer preface.