Thomas Point Shoal - List of Keepers
This is a work-in-progress. Records at the National Archives list keeper appointments through 1912 only. The US Lighthouse Service civilian keepers continued their service until 1939, when the Lighthouse Service merged with the U.S. Coast Guard. A few station logs of USCG keepers from the 1950s and 1960s have provided some names during that period. If you know of others with documented service at Thomas Point Shoal lighthouse, please contact us so we can continue to expand our keeper list.
Position
|
Surname
|
First Name
|
MI
|
Date Appointed
day-month-yr |
Date Left
day-month-yr |
Reason
for Leaving |
Notes
|
||||
Keeper | Sullivan | Geo. | E. |
6
|
7
|
1874
|
|
|
|
Transferred
|
Moved to new T.P. Shoals LH as Asst. |
Keeper | Burchenal | Eugene |
4
|
11
|
1875
|
27
|
11
|
1880
|
Resigned
|
1st Lighted 27 Nov 1875 | |
2 Asst | Miller | Charles |
16
|
11
|
1875
|
15
|
2
|
1877
|
Promoted
|
||
1 Asst | Sullivan | Geo. | E. |
4
|
11
|
1875
|
25
|
1
|
1877
|
Removed
|
|
Actg 2 Asst | Miller | Geo. | A. |
15
|
2
|
1877
|
26
|
3
|
1877
|
Perm Appt
|
|
2 Asst | Miller | Geo. | A. |
26
|
3
|
1877
|
12
|
8
|
1879
|
Resigned
|
|
1 Asst | Miller | Charles |
15
|
2
|
1877
|
27
|
11
|
1880
|
Promoted
|
||
Actg 2 Asst | Maley | John |
12
|
8
|
1879
|
12
|
8
|
1879
|
Declined
|
||
2 Asst | Warmkessel | Julius |
19
|
8
|
1879
|
3
|
12
|
1880
|
|
||
Actg Keeper | Miller | Charles |
27
|
11
|
1880
|
16
|
2
|
1881
|
Perm Appt
|
||
Actg 2 Asst | Parrish | John | W. |
7
|
12
|
1880
|
17
|
6
|
1881
|
Removed
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Warmkessel | Julius |
3
|
12
|
1880
|
17
|
2
|
1881
|
Perm Appt
|
||
Actg 1 Asst | Atwood | Benjamin |
6
|
7
|
1881
|
16
|
8
|
1881
|
Removed
|
Civil War record lists same name | |
Actg 2 Asst | Culleton | George | F. |
16
|
9
|
1881
|
2
|
1
|
1883
|
Promoted
|
2 Asst position abolished - 2 Jan 1883 |
Keeper | Miller | Charles |
16
|
2
|
1881
|
17
|
6
|
1881
|
Removed
|
||
Actg 2 Asst | Roberts | Charles | G. |
31
|
8
|
1881
|
16
|
9
|
1881
|
Resigned
|
|
Actg 2 Asst | Suit | John | B.T. |
1
|
7
|
1881
|
31
|
8
|
1881
|
Promoted
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Suit | John | B.T. |
31
|
8
|
1881
|
2
|
1
|
1883
|
Resigned
|
|
1 Asst | Warmkessel | Julius |
17
|
2
|
1881
|
17
|
6
|
1881
|
Promoted
|
||
Actg Keeper | Warmkessel | Julius |
17
|
6
|
1881
|
8
|
12
|
1886
|
Removed
|
* 1880 Cen., Balto., MD, ae 35, born Germany | |
Actg 1 Asst | Culleton | George | F. |
3
|
1
|
1883
|
19
|
3
|
1883
|
Perm Appt
|
|
1 Asst | Culleton | George | F. |
19
|
3
|
1883
|
6
|
9
|
1883
|
Transferred
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Evans | James | L. |
6
|
9
|
1883
|
16
|
10
|
1883
|
Resigned
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | League | Henry | C. |
16
|
10
|
1883
|
17
|
12
|
1883
|
Perm Appt
|
|
1 Asst | League | Henry | C. |
17
|
12
|
1883
|
19
|
1
|
1884
|
Resigned
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Rollins | Henry | F. |
19
|
1
|
1884
|
25
|
6
|
1884
|
Perm Appt
|
|
1 Asst | Rollins | Henry | F. |
25
|
6
|
1884
|
24
|
12
|
1884
|
Transferred
|
|
1 Asst | Jackson | Jesse |
20
|
2
|
1885
|
19
|
11
|
1885
|
Resigned
|
||
Actg 1 Asst | Jackson | Jesse |
12
|
2
|
1885
|
20
|
2
|
1885
|
Perm Appt
|
||
Actg 1 Asst | Parkinson | George |
22
|
1
|
1885
|
12
|
2
|
1885
|
Resigned
|
||
Actg 1 Asst | Reynolds | John |
19
|
11
|
1885
|
16
|
1
|
1886
|
Perm Appt
|
||
Keeper | Culleton | George | F. |
|
12
|
1886
|
1
|
4
|
1901
|
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Proctor | James | A. |
|
12
|
1886
|
19
|
1
|
1887
|
Resigned
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Rawlings | Samuel | F. |
27
|
11
|
1886
|
|
|
|
Declined
|
|
1 Asst | Reynolds | John |
|
1
|
1886
|
13
|
11
|
1886
|
Transferred
|
||
Actg 1 Asst | Dillingham | Charles | A. |
19
|
1
|
1887
|
27
|
2
|
1888
|
Perm Appt
|
|
1 Asst | Dillingham | Charles | A. |
27
|
2
|
1888
|
3
|
12
|
1889
|
Resigned
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Schirgur | John | K. |
3
|
12
|
1889
|
20
|
3
|
1890
|
Perm Appt
|
|
1 Asst | Schirgur | John | K. |
20
|
3
|
1890
|
29
|
4
|
1890
|
Resigned
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Suit | John. | B.T. |
29
|
4
|
1890
|
12
|
3
|
1891
|
Perm Appt
|
|
Actg 1 Asst | Robinson | Charles |
16
|
12
|
1891
|
28
|
2
|
1894
|
Perm Appt
|
||
1 Asst | Suit | John | B.T. |
12
|
3
|
1891
|
21
|
11
|
1891
|
Transferred
|
to Greenbury Point Shoals |
1 Asst | Robinson | Charles |
28
|
2
|
1894
|
|
12
|
1897
|
Transferred
|
||
Actg 1 Asst | Hartmann | Charles | W. |
19
|
7
|
1898
|
16
|
9
|
1898
|
Perm Appt
|
|
1 Asst | Hartmann | Charles | W. |
12
|
1
|
1899
|
28
|
5
|
1901
|
no end date listed | |
1 Asst | Addicks | Henry |
28
|
5
|
1901
|
1
|
8
|
1903
|
|||
Keeper | White | Daniel | A. |
1
|
4
|
1901
|
|
11
|
1904
|
||
1 Asst | Jansen | Edward |
1
|
8
|
1903
|
13
|
10
|
1904
|
|||
1 Asst | Earle | Peter | S. |
13
|
10
|
1904
|
16
|
3
|
1905
|
||
Keeper | Suit | John | B.T. |
1
|
12
|
1904
|
19
|
3
|
1908
|
||
1 Asst | Robinson | Charles |
16
|
3
|
1905
|
|
3
|
1905
|
appears to have not served | ||
1 Asst | Wingate | Henry | C. |
|
3
|
1905
|
1
|
1
|
1907
|
||
1 Asst | Austin | Homer | T. |
26
|
9
|
1907
|
2
|
1
|
1908
|
Asst Keeper, Cape Hatteras 1912-1913 | |
1 Asst | Larsen | Chas. | A. |
1
|
1
|
1907
|
26
|
9
|
1907
|
||
1 Asst | Jennett | Devaney | F. |
1
|
10
|
1908
|
14
|
4
|
1909
|
served most in Outer Banks NC | |
1 Asst | Kerley | John | R. |
2
|
1
|
1908
|
1
|
10
|
1908
|
||
Keeper | Schoenfelder | William | R. |
1
|
10
|
1908
|
19
|
12
|
1911
|
||
Keeper | Wingate | Henry | C. |
19
|
3
|
1908
|
1
|
10
|
1908
|
||
1 Asst | Norton | Saml. | W. |
|
12
|
1909
|
|
1
|
1910
|
brief service - dates uncertain | |
1 Asst | Swain | Malachi | D. |
12
|
11
|
1909
|
19
|
11
|
1909
|
||
1 Asst | Tolson | John | T. |
14
|
4
|
1909
|
12
|
11
|
1909
|
served most in Outer Banks NC | |
1 Asst | Cantler | Millard | F. |
|
1
|
1910
|
|
|
1910
|
brief service - dates uncertain | |
1 Asst | Ennis | John | L. |
11
|
1
|
1910
|
|
|
|
serving at end of FY 1912 | |
Keeper | Van Houter | Sheldon | R. |
19
|
12
|
1911
|
|
|
|
serving at end of FY 1912 | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
USCG | Harris | E. | C. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | |
USCG | Doyle | Arnold | W. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | |
USCG | Tolson | Jesse B. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | ||
USCG | Mason | Cecil |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | ||
USCG | Tarantino | Sal |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | ||
USCG | Jacobs | James | O. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | |
USCG | Crow | Thomas |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | ||
USCG | Maddox | Jesse | C. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | |
USCG | DeGroot | Walter C. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | ||
USCG | Thomason | G. | M. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | |
USCG | Montgomery | G. | W. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1951-1953 | |
USCG | Leikam | George |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1957-1958 | ||
USCG | Gollattscheck | Joseph | C. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1957-1958 | |
USCG | Dors | Robert |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1957-1958 | ||
USCG | Koerner | E.Stanley |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1957-1958 | ||
USCG | Simons | A. | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1957-1958 | |
USCG | Robbins | Tylen | B.M. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1957-1958 | |
USCG | Shamanski | Raymond |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1957-1958 | ||
USCG | Herpel | George | W. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Grant | Reginald | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Beals | John | M. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Sentz | Irvin | L. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | McClung | Henry | T. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Edgar | Berry | T. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Funkhouser | Beverly | L. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Gruber | Walter C. | L. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Sigler | Robert | G. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Dennis | William | G. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Salek | Thomas | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1961-1962 | |
USCG | Baber | Hastle | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Roehm | Robert | G. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Sapp | Richard | H. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Wolcott | Carl | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Donoway | William | H. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Smith | Harold | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Sands | R. | M. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Bullis | M. | R. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Spatafora | David | A. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Goodman | Elmer | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Jones | John | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | Zwierzynski | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | ||
USCG | Tonkin | James | W. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1963-1964 | |
USCG | McGehee | George | L. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Blick | John | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Haynes | Alan | C. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Outland | Paul | T. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Van't Hof | Paul | D. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Conley | Richard | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Ray | Benson | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Watson | William | H. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Nicholson | James | T. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1965-1966 | |
USCG | Candler | Edgar | W. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Wallace | Lem | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Hopkins | George | S. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Grove | Ronald | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Kissell | Michael | P. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Tunis | William | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Lemon | Paul | D. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Pritchard | Herman | S. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Griffiths | Thomas | B. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Szillage | Robert | K. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Mitchell | W. | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Fahey | William | N. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Hallisey | J. | D. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1967-1968 | |
USCG | Burrus | Alonzo | O. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 | |
USCG | Evans | John |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 | ||
USCG | Kehring | J. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 | ||
USCG | Swint | S. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 | ||
USCG | Mordecai | Danny | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 | |
USCG | Hollenbeck | Roger | E. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 | |
USCG | Leppo | Harry | F. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 | |
USCG | Ferguson | Richard | W. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
serving part of 1969-1970 |