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File Type:
jpg (image/jpeg)
First Name:
Henry
Last Name:
Hill
Type: Light Keeper
Image Source:
Oregon Historical Society
Collection / Donor:
Born:
1867
Died:
1945
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1918
Year Departed:
1918
Begin Salary:
636
End Salary:
636
Place:
Title / Position:
4th Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Resigned
Year Started:
1918
Year Departed:
1919
Begin Salary:
540
End Salary:
780
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1919
Year Departed:
1922
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
600
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Promoted
Year Started:
1922
Year Departed:
1926
Begin Salary:
600
End Salary:
1080
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1926
Year Departed:
1931
Begin Salary:
1140
End Salary:
1320
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Retired
Year Started:
1932
Year Departed:
1933
Begin Salary:
1740
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Entered Date:
Nov 09, 2018


In the above photograph, Head keeper William Auld (left) and first assistant Henry Hill (right) from Yaquina Head are shown in their United States Lighthouse Service uniforms at the 1935 Pacific International Livestock Exposition in Portland. They are standing on either side of a 4th order Fresnel lens from Desdemona Sands Lighthouse.
Retired on disability on June 1, 1933.
Brother of Keeper William Hill.