First Name:
John
Last Name:
McKenna
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Born:
1855
Died:
1902.12.23
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
3rd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Promoted
Year Started:
1889
Year Departed:
1890
Begin Salary:
500
End Salary:
500
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Promoted
Year Started:
1890
Year Departed:
1890
Begin Salary:
550
End Salary:
550
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1890
Year Departed:
1895
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
600
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred and Promoted
Year Started:
1895
Year Departed:
1896
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
600
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1896
Year Departed:
1901
Begin Salary:
800
End Salary:
800
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Died
Year Started:
1901
Year Departed:
1902
Begin Salary:
800
End Salary:
800
Source:
Register of Lighthouse Keepers, Newspaper Articles
More Information
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Oct 12, 2018
Captain John McKenna, keeper of Lime Point Lighthouse, fell from an embankment near his post of duty Monday night and was killed. McKenna went to San Francisco that day to purchase Christmas presents. He returned to Sausalito in the evening and an Expressman conveyed him to the city limits, where McKenna got out of the bus and started to walk to the lighthouse, about two miles distant. The pathway taken by McKenna leads along a cliff and is very narrow. In some manner which will never be known McKenna missed his footing and fell about fifteen feet, striking his head on the rocks, fracturing the skull. The body was not found until Tuesday morning. Coroner Eden was then notified and took the remains to San Rafael.
The deceased was 47 years of age and an old resident of California. He had been in the lighthouse service for many years, having tended the Point Bonita, Point Reyes and other lights. He was unmarried.