Alaska D. Jennett

First Name:
Alaska
Last Name:
Jennett
Collection / Donor:
Middle Initial:
D.
Born:
1879
Died:
1948
Comments
Retired for disability on February 29, 1940. He was burned (first degree burns to face and second degree burns to both hands) on December 7, 1939 when Cobb Point Bar Lighthouse caught fire, and he had to jump into the Potomac River.
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1903
Year Departed:
1904
Begin Salary:
435
End Salary:
435
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1904
Year Departed:
1905
Begin Salary:
440
End Salary:
440
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1905
Year Departed:
1907
Begin Salary:
440
End Salary:
440
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Resigned
Year Started:
1907
Year Departed:
1908
Begin Salary:
435
End Salary:
425
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Retired
Year Started:
1930
Year Departed:
1940
Begin Salary:
1380
End Salary:
1440
Vessels
Associated Vessel:
Title / Position:
Quartermaster
Year Started:
1922
Year Ended:
1923
Associated Vessel:
Title / Position:
Seaman
Year Started:
1928
Year Ended:
1929
Cause of Termination:
Source:
Registers of Lighthouse Keepers, OPF

More Information

Entered by:
trholman
Entered Date:
Nov 13, 2018