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First Name:
James
Last Name:
Williams
Type: Depot Personnel, Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Middle Initial:
T.
Born:
1891
Died:
1963
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Resigned
Year Started:
1911
Year Departed:
1914
Begin Salary:
480
End Salary:
480
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1916
Year Departed:
1916
Begin Salary:
516
End Salary:
516
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1916
Year Departed:
1917
Begin Salary:
480
End Salary:
480
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Furloughed
Year Started:
1917
Year Departed:
1917
Begin Salary:
576
End Salary:
576
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1919
Year Departed:
1919
Place:
Title / Position:
Depot Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Retired
Year Started:
1922
Year Departed:
1930
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1932
Year Departed:
1938
Begin Salary:
1260
End Salary:
1260
Place:
Title / Position:
Assistant Depot Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Retired
Year Started:
1938
Year Departed:
1940
Begin Salary:
1620
Vessels
Associated Vessel:
Title / Position:
Radio Operator
Year Started:
1919
Year Ended:
1922
Source:
Registers of Lighthouse Keepers, Erik Danielsen OPF, OPF, Newspaper Article
More Information
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Nov 09, 2018
Son of Keeper James Chester Williams and brother of Keeper John L. Williams.
He applied for a leave of absence to join the Navy in 1917. During that service, he contracted Tuberculosis that would lead to his later being retired for disability from the Lighthouse Service in 1930 and again on April 30, 1940.