14324. Brown, Edward R. Guardian of the Flame: The Story of Hospital Point Lighthouse Keeper Joseph Henry. Beverly Historical Soc. 2009.
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14324. Brown, Edward R. Guardian of the Flame: The Story of Hospital Point Lighthouse Keeper Joseph Henry. Beverly Historical Soc. 2009.
14324. Brown, Edward R. Guardian of the Flame: The Story of Hospital Point Lighthouse Keeper Joseph Henry. Beverly Historical Society. 2009. 32p. Soft wraps. For decades, Beverly, Massachusetts, boasted an active fishing and trading port, but it took the maritime commerce in adjacent Salem to motivate The Lighthouse Board to establish a lighthouse at Hospital Point. Joseph Henry Herrick served as Hospital Point Light Keeper for the 43 years between 1873 and 1917. A native of Beverly and a Civil War veteran, he had worked as a shoemaker in his hometown before he became Hospital Point Light Keeper. Joseph Henry Herrick never received a pay raise from the Lighthouse Service and he never missed a day of work while he kept the light and raised his family in the keeper’s house. When he retired in 1917, he noted that his salary had stayed the same as it had been when he started in 1874, except for a small food allowance. The Beverly Historical Society has preserved several of Joseph Henry Herrick’s lighthouse journals which, besides routine weather entries, contain notes about life at sea and in his home town. Keeper Herrick entered the names of nearly everyone who visited the lighthouse, but he didn’t write his own name in his journal even once. Interesting account. (F). $26.