page_title: Boon Island Light
section_title: Keepers
hierarchical_section_title: Boon Island Light / Keepers
caption_attribution_description: English: Boon Island Light, Maine
context_page_description: Boon Island Light is located on the 300-by-700-foot Boon Island off the southern coast of Maine, United States, near Cape Neddick. Boon Island Light has the distinction of being the tallest lighthouse in both Maine and New England at 133 feet. The lighthouse has a focal plane at 137 feet above mean high water. The light's beacon flashes white every 5 seconds.
context_section_description: David Oliver (c. 1811)
  Thomas Hanna (c. 1811-1816)
  Eliphalet Grover (1816–1839)
  Mark Dennet (1840–1841)
  John Thompson (1841–1843)
  Morgan Trafton (1842 assistant keeper, lost in boating accident)
  John Kennard (1843–1846)
  Nathaniel Baker (1849)
  John Thompson (1846–1849)
  Hiram Tobey (1853)
  Caleb S. Gould (1853–1854)
  George Bowden (1854–1855)
  Josiah Tobey Jr. (assistant, 1855)
  Samuel S. Tobey (assistant, 1856)
  Christopher Littlefield (1854)
  Sam Philbrick (1854)
  Charles H. Tobey (assistant 1850, keeper 1856)
  Charles E. Thompson (1858)
  John S. Baker (assistant, 1858)
  Nathaniel Baker (1859)
  William L. Baker (assistant, 1859)
  Cabin (?) Gray (1861)
  George B. Wallace (June 1861 – 1866)
  Benjamin Bridges (1861)
  George E. Bridges (1864)
  Richard C. Yeaton (1864)
  Charles Ramsdell (assistant 1865)
  Joshua K. Card (1867–1874)
  George H. Yeaton (assistant 1867)
  Samuel Meloon (assistant, 1868)
  Nathan White Jr. (assistant 1870)
  Alfred J. Leavitt (1874-1886?)
  Leander White (1st assistant, 1874)
  Edwin J. Hobbs (assistant, 1874–1876)
  David R. Grogan (assistant, 1876, keeper 1879)
  George O. Leavitt (assistant, 1878)
  Walter S. Amee (Ames?) (2nd assistant, 1878)
  John Kennard (1884)
  William C. Williams (1st assistant 1885, then keeper 1885-1911)
  James Burke (2nd assistant, 1886–1887, 1st assistant 1887-1890)
  Orrin M. Lamprey (1886)
  Meshach M. Seaward (2nd assistant, 1886–1900)
  Leonidas H. Sawyer (2nd assistant, 1889. keeper 1889)
  Charles W. Allen (2nd assistant, 1907–1911, first assistant 1911-?)
  Mitchell Blackwood (c. 1911)
  Harold Hutchins (c. 1923-1933)
  Fred C. Batty (assistant, c. early 1930s)
  Clinton Dalzell (assistant c. 1934)
  George Woodward (assistant?, c. 1920s)
  C. A. Tracy (c. 1935)
  Hoyt P. Smith (c. 1935)
  E. Stockbridge, assistant (c. 1935)
  Charles U. Gardner (Coast Guard relief keeper, c, 1942–1943)
  John H. Morris (Coast Guard, c. 1945)
  Ted Guice (Coast Guard assistant, c. 1945)
  Kendrick Capon (Coast Guard, c. 1950s)
  Harold L. Roberts (Coast Guard, 1956)
  Leonard John "Moon" Mullen (Coast Guard, c.1956)
  Charles Allen (1st assistant, c. 1957, served 6 years)
  Robert Brann (c. 1958)
  Dave Wells (Coast Guard, 1966)
  August "Gus" Pfister (Coast Guard, 1967–1968)
  Thomas Lee (Coast Guard, 1970-1971)
  Bob Roberts (Coast Guard, 1970s)
  Fred Kendall (1973–1975)
caption: Before the loss of the keeper's house in 1978
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