Digest>Nov/Dec 2013

Photo Caption:

George Parker Matthews, the first lighthouse keeper of Squirrel Point Lighthouse, is shown here with his wife Hattie Louise (Bryer) Matthews. The number 1 on his jacket lapel indicates that the photo was taken while he was the 1st assistant keeper at Maine’s Whitehead Lighthouse before he became the first keeper at Squirrel Point Lighthouse. He was born June 22, 1846 and died in October of 1920. (Michael Wright collection, Lighthouse Digest archives.)
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Life at Squirrel Point Lighthouse
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