Dex,
Cairo, Illinois was also a large river port...both for Mississippi and Ohio River boats...there might be some archives there, but I'm not sure of it. Another place to find lists of Captains, Pilots, Engineers, etc., is the St. Louis Mercantile Library/Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library located at UMSL. Their website is: http://www.umsl.edu/pott/

Please let us know if you find information on this guy...I love looking for obscure stuff like this! Good luck on finding your needle in the BIG hay stack!

Maggie