The Lighthouse Keepers of the Morris Island Lighthouse
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Each lightkeeper is listed with his years of service.
St. Lo Mellichamp II 1830 – 1850
George Wood 1850 – 1857
William A. Mellichamp 1857
William A. Harm 1870
James Skillins 1870 – 1873
Charles Player 1875 – 1876
James Masindun 1873 – 1874
William Player 1874 – 1875
Jimmy Conklin 1875 – 1876
Henry Conklin 1876
Gustavis Thompson 1878 – 1881
John Wieking 1885 – 1908
Martin Leary 1878 – 1881
John Ames 1877 – 1881, 1882 – 1883
John Hagan 1877 – 1880
Peter Collins 1880 – 1881
John Wragg 1881
Phillip Pepper 1881
John Howard 1881 – 1883
James Young 1882 – 1883
Angus Bennett 1883 – 1903
Thomas Jones 1883 – 1884
Thomas O’Hagan 1883 – 1887
Ernest Ferrell 1884
More Wilkinson 1884 – 1886
Richard Stonebridge 1884, 1887 – 1891
Edward Burns 1887 – 1891
Halvor Svendsen 1891 – 1896
Matthew Slavich 1892 – 1894
Carl Svendson 1903 – 1908
Victor Thelning 1901 – 1902
Jessie Swan 1902 – 1904
Martin Rowell 1903 – 1906
Maniard ____t 1906 – 1907
Ludwig Jacobson 1906 – 1908
Carl Sisson 1907 – 1908
Lewis Bringloe 1908
George Jackson 1910s
George Shierlock 1917 – ??
Edward T. Hewitt 1920s
William Hecker 1925 – 1938
W. A. Davis 1920s & 1930s
Edward L. Meyer 1933 – 1935