First Name:
Herbert
Last Name:
Scott
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Middle Initial:
C.
Born:
1858.06.10
Died:
1921.01.01
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1913
Year Departed:
1916
Begin Salary:
720
End Salary:
720
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1917
Year Departed:
1918
Begin Salary:
720
End Salary:
720
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Died
Year Started:
1918
Year Departed:
1921
Begin Salary:
708
End Salary:
840
Source:
Official Register of the United States, OPF, Newspaper Article
More Information
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Oct 12, 2018
Scott was made an additional second keeper at Cape Hinchinbrook in 1916 so he could take his accumulated leave. He returned to the station in 1917. William J. Morgan served for a year while Scott was away.
Mr. Scott, Assistant Keeper of Mary Island Light Station, left the station at 10 a.m. December 30, 1920, with two young men who had been visiting the station. He was reported to the Superintendent as missing about 2 p.m. on January 1, 1921, and the tender Fern immediately proceeded to Mary Island and commenced search. Other search parties also proceeded to the island. The body of Mr. Scott was found by the Fern search party about 11 a.m. January 3, 1921, he evidently having died from exposure. There is no evidence as to the exact date of Mr. Scott's death, but the surrounding circumstances indicate that it occurred some time on January 1, 1921.