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First Name:
Thomas
Last Name:
Small
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Born:
1897
Died:
1959
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
2nd Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred and Promoted
Year Started:
1920
Year Departed:
1922
Begin Salary:
660
End Salary:
660
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1922
Year Departed:
1929
Begin Salary:
840
End Salary:
1680
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1929
Year Departed:
1929
Begin Salary:
1500
End Salary:
1500
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1929
Year Departed:
1930
Begin Salary:
1320
End Salary:
1320
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1930
Year Departed:
1931
Begin Salary:
1440
End Salary:
1440
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred and Promoted
Year Started:
1931
Year Departed:
1931
Begin Salary:
1500
End Salary:
1500
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transfered and Demoted
Year Started:
1931
Year Departed:
1939
Begin Salary:
1620
End Salary:
1620
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred and Promoted
Year Started:
1939
Year Departed:
1940
Begin Salary:
1620
End Salary:
1620
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Cause of Termination:
Transferred
Year Started:
1940
Year Departed:
1941
Begin Salary:
1620
End Salary:
1620
Source:
National Archives Retirement Card, OPF
More Information
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Oct 05, 2018
Brother of Keepers Arthur A. Small and Judson B. Small.
The Narrows Lighthouse burned on June 7, 1929. Keeper Small was briefly separated from the service and then accepted a position as an additional keeper with quarters at Cape Ann. He resigned from that position, and then was reinstated as an assistant at Duxbury Pier in October 1929. He was transferred to a lifeboat station in 1941, after having joined the Coast Guard.