First Name:
Austin
Last Name:
Small
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Middle Initial:
M.
Born:
1874
Died:
1931
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Promoted
Year Started:
1918
Year Departed:
1918
Begin Salary:
552
End Salary:
780
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1918
Year Departed:
1919
Begin Salary:
840
End Salary:
840
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred and Promoted
Year Started:
1919
Year Departed:
1919
Begin Salary:
660
End Salary:
660
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Resigned
Year Started:
1919
Year Departed:
1919
Begin Salary:
720
End Salary:
720
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1922
Year Departed:
1923
Begin Salary:
660
End Salary:
660
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1923
Year Departed:
1926
Begin Salary:
720
End Salary:
1320
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Died
Year Started:
1927
Year Departed:
1931
Begin Salary:
1260
End Salary:
1380
More Information
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Entered Date:
Nov 13, 2018


Keeper Small served as Keeper-at-Large for 3 months in 1922, at which time he was assigned to Goat Island Lighthouse Depot and various stations.
Austin M. Small died of heart failure on August 16, 1931 while serving at Point Loma Light Station.