Hugh Douglass was a light keeper for the Boston Lighthouse.
Boston Light, aptly dubbed the "ideal American lighthouse" by the historian Edward Rowe Snow, holds a place of honor among our nation's beacons.
This was the first light station established on the North American continent, and the last in the United States to be automated. It's also our only light station that still retains an official keeper.
Because Boston Light was destroyed in the Revolution and rebuilt in 1783, the tower itself is the second oldest in the U.S. New Jersey's Sandy Hook Light, built in 1764, is the oldest lighthouse tower.
John Groves Herrick at age 45 was a farm laborer (1860 US Federal Census for Gloucester, MA).
11210. Thomas Jefferson Sargent
Thomas Jefferson Sargent -- his death reported due to ersipelas, paralysis and debility from malarial poisoning.
23960. Josiah Cummings Haskell
Civil War Pension File
Widows application # 105555, cert # 67995
Enrolled 9 November 1863 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 14th regiment, Kansas calvary.
Died of pneumonia aboard steamer enroute from Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma on 4 May 1865.
Married Eliza Jane Smith 27 December 1853 at Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts.
Charles Haskell was a trader.