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2. Lighthouse keeper - Wikipedia

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   Marine occupation. A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as " wickies " because of their job trimming the wicks. [1]

3. Presque Isle Light - Wikipedia

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   83002242 [1] The Presque Isle Light, historically nicknamed the "Flash Light", is a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Erie in U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [2] It is one of three lighthouses in Erie, along with the Erie Land Light and the North Pier Light. The lighthouse is situated on the northern shoreline of Presque Isle State Park overlooking ...

4. Ida Lewis - Wikipedia

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   Ida Lewis was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the second oldest of four children of Captain Hosea Lewis of the Revenue-Marine. Her father was transferred to the Lighthouse Service and appointed keeper of Lime Rock Light on the small near-island Lime Rock in Newport in 1854, taking his family to live on the rock in 1857. [4]

5. Maria Andreu - Wikipedia

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   Maria Mestre de los Dolores Andreu (April 25, 1801 – after 1860) was an American known as the second US Coastguard female employee. A lighthouse keeper, she was the first Hispanic-American woman to command a federal shore installation. [1] Marilyn Dykman said of her "Maria Andreu's leadership and perseverance as keeper of the lighthouse ...

6. Katherine Walker - Wikipedia

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   Katherine Walker ( née Katharina Görtler; November 25, 1848 [1] – February 5, 1931) was a German-American lighthouse keeper . Walker tended the Robbins Reef Light in New York Harbor for more than 30 years after the death of her husband, Captain John Walker, who had been appointed keeper of the light in 1885. [2]

7. Elizabeth Whitney Williams - Wikipedia

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   Lighthouse keeper. Years active. 1872–1913. Notable work. A Child of the Sea and My Life Among Mormons. Elizabeth Whitney Williams was an American lighthouse keeper and writer. She served as a lighthouse keeper for 41 years, including a 29-year stint at the Little Traverse Light. [1] [2]