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Almon Mitchell and his wife Ida May Hall had eleven children and had been married for 26 years when she died of heart failure in 1907 at the age of 44. Then, in 1919, in Friendship, Maine he married Emily M. Douglas, 30 years his junior, and the couple had five children during the time that he was stationed at Ram Island Lighthouse in Boothbay Harbor. Sadly, the youngest of his children was only two years old when Almon Mitchell died in 1925 of a heart attack at the age of 68.
Almon Mitchell began his lighthouse keeping career in 1898 as a 2nd assistant keeper at Great Duck Island Lighthouse and worked his way up the ranks at Libby Island Light and Lubec Channel Light to become a head or principle keeper first at Petit Manan Lighthouse followed by Franklin Island Light and finally at Ram Island Light.
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