1876 - 1878 Temporary Second Assistant Keeper Hunting Island Lighthouse near Charleston, SC | |||
1878 - 1880
Keeper Fort Ripley Shoal Lighthouse near Charleston, SC | |||
1878 - 1887
Principal Keeper Morris Island Lighthouse near Charleston, SC
Named references to Papa in The Morris Island Lighthouse: Charleston's Maritime Beacon by Douglas W. Bostick, Richard L. Beck.
Also references Papa's brother John who served at the Morris Island Lighthouse from 1876-1880.They must have worked together between Save the Lighthouse web site has a reference of "Thomas O'Hagan 1883 - 1887" on the Lightkeepers page. | |||
1887 - 1905 Keeper Georgetown Lighthouse south of Myrtle Beach, SC | |||
12/1/1893 - 9/23/1905 Head Keeper Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station near Daytona Beach, FL, formerly known a Mosquito Inlet Light Papa was the keeper when the author Stephen Crane and others were saved by the lighthouse keepers after they were shipwrecked on Jan. 1, 1897. Crane wrote his famous short story, Open Boat, based on this experience. In 1927, the name of Mosquito Inlet was changed to Ponce De Leon Inlet. |
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1905 - 1925 Keeper Amelia Island Lighthouse | |||
Died Nov. 30, 1944 Buried at Bosque Bello Cemetery, Fernandina Beach, FL |
The Coast Guard began to maintain the country's aids to maritime navigation, including operating the nation's lighthouses, when President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the transfer of the Lighthouse Service to the Coast Guard in 1939.
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