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First Name:
James
Last Name:
Dobbins
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Middle Initial:
H.
Born:
1911
Died:
1970
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Promoted
Year Started:
1941
Year Departed:
1942
Begin Salary:
1560
End Salary:
1560
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Resigned
Year Started:
1942
Year Departed:
1942
Begin Salary:
1740
End Salary:
1740
Vessels
Associated Vessel:
Title / Position:
Quartermaster
Year Started:
1929
Year Ended:
1933
Begin Salary:
870
End Salary:
930
Cause of Termination:
Source:
National Archives Retirement Card, OPF
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Entered Date:
Oct 05, 2018
If you know which of the two men in the photograph is James H. Dobbins, please let us know.
Son of Keeper Harry B. Dobbins and brother-in-law of Keeper Cecil R. Kelley.
Keeper Dobbins resigned in September 1942 to accept more lucrative employment as his salary was insufficient to maintain his family. He served as additional keeper at large based at Chatham Lighthouse from 1937 until 1941. While serving as keeper at large, he filled in for the keepers at Chatham, Cape Poge and Gull Rocks among others. In 1963, he applied for reinstatement as a civilian keeper, but civilian keepers were no longer being accepted by the Coast Guard.