First Name:
Amasa
Last Name:
Simpson
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Middle Initial:
J.
Born:
1856
Died:
1919.07.12
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
3rd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1883
Year Departed:
1884
Begin Salary:
400
End Salary:
400
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1884.06.03
Year Departed:
1884.09.26
Begin Salary:
440
End Salary:
440
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1884
Year Departed:
1888
Begin Salary:
820
End Salary:
820
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Resigned
Year Started:
1888
Year Departed:
1897
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
600
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1899
Year Departed:
1899
Begin Salary:
420
End Salary:
420
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1899
Year Departed:
1899
Begin Salary:
420
End Salary:
420
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred and Promoted
Year Started:
1899
Year Departed:
1901
Begin Salary:
440
End Salary:
400
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1901
Year Departed:
1904
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
600
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1904
Year Departed:
1905
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
600
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1905
Year Departed:
1915
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
660
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1915
Year Departed:
1918
Begin Salary:
560
End Salary:
560
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1918
Year Departed:
1919
Begin Salary:
552
End Salary:
840
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Died
Year Started:
1919
Year Departed:
1919
Begin Salary:
780
End Salary:
780
Source:
Registers of Lighthouse Keepers, William T. Midgett OPF, Wilbur S. Kelly OPF, OPF
More Information
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Nov 13, 2018
Brother of Keeper Fabius E. Simpson and Keeper Alpheus W. Simpson.
He was on leave of absence without pay in the first part of 1914. He had to have his right leg amputated at the knee after the station boat was blown under the frame substructure Southwest Point Royal Shoal Lighthouse. While endeavoring to free the boat, Simpson's leg was crushed. He was diabetic and had heart complications, but survived the surgery.