Rock Island Lighthouse Historical & Memorial Association

 

Keepers' Logs
 

        This website contains images of the actual handwritten pages of the Rock Island Lighthouse Keepers' logs—when completed this project will encompass over 2,000 page images in all. The logs are currently kept at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Logs for the years 1872 through 1955 are the only ones known to exist today; consequently, these images represent records kept by the following people:

Keeper Available Logs
Willard L. Cook  1872 - 5 February 1879
Foster M. Drake  20 February 1879 - 28 August 1886
Michael J. Diepolder  13 September 1886 - 16 July 1901
Emma E. (Row) Diepolder  16 July 1901 - 12 September 1901
Eugene W. Butler 12 September 1901 - 31 December 1910
John C. Belden  24 June 1912 - 1 October 1940
Frank K. Ward  1 October 1940 - June 1952
John W. Van Ingen  July 1952 - July 1955
Dennis P. Carroll  July 1955 - December 1955


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