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First Name:
Jaruel
Last Name:
Marr
Type: Light Keeper
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Courtesy of Elisa Trepanier
Collection / Donor:
Born:
1829
Died:
1907
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Resigned
Year Started:
1866
Year Departed:
1895
Begin Salary:
350
End Salary:
500
Source:
Register of Lighthouse Keepers
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Entered Date:
May 23, 2018
Jaruel Marr was appointed keeper of the Hendricks Head Lighthouse in 1866 to compensate him in part for injuries he sustained while fighting in the Civil War. Jaruel had walked sixty miles to Portland to enlist in the Union Army, leaving his wife Catherine and three children behind. During the conflict, he was wounded and incarcerated in a Confederate prison in Virginia, where he was nursed back to health by a fellow-prisoner and Union Army doctor named Wolcott. To honor the doctor, Jaruel and his wife named their next child Wolcott.
Father of keepers Clarence E. Marr, Wolcott H. Marr, and Preston L. Marr.