From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Library Collection
Keeper's Log of Bear Island Lighthouse, 1877.1878
During his tenure as lightkeeper, his family consisted of his wife, Catherine (Kimball), 4 daughters, Sarah, age 8, Ida, age 7, Augusta, age 4, and Adelma, age 2. Gives accounts of oil, wicks, and chimneys expended daily; shows time of lighting and extinguishing and length of time lighted each night, for each month.
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14" wide X 17" long 44 pages
Book; Keeper's Log of Bear Island Lighthouse, 1877.1878; During his tenure as lightkeeper, his family consisted of his wife, Catherine (Kimball), 4 daughters, Sarah, age 8, Ida, age 7, Augusta, age 4, and Adelma, age 2. Gives accounts of oil, wicks, and chimneys expended daily; shows time of lighting and extinguishing and length of time lighted each night, for each month.
