LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS SON DROWNS WHILE PLAYING - ACADIA, 1932

Deaths In Acadia National Park

Aug. 31,  1932


Ronald, the 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Meuse of Baker's Island drown while playing.  The boy was playing with a raft at the shore and must of fallen on the rocks and into the water as his face and body showed buses.  Aid was called from the Coast Guard Station at Islesford and doctors from Seal Harbor were also called, but no life was found in the boy.  The boy had two sisters and a brother.
Mr. Joseph Meuse was the lighthouse keeper for Baker's Island.

List of past lighthouse keepers[;
 Head: William Gilley (1828 – 1849), John Rich (1849 – 1853), Joseph Bunker (1853 – 1856), John Bunker (1856 – 1860), W.R. Bunker (1860 – 1861), Freeman G. Young (1861 – 1867), Alden H. Jordan (1867 – 1883), Roscoe G. Lopans (1883 – 1888), Howard P. Robbins (1888 – 1902), George S. Connors (1902 – at least 1913), Vurney L. King (at least 1915 – 1930), Joseph Muise ( – 1932), Frank Faulkingham (1932 – at least 1941), Wayne E. Holcomb (1944 – 1945), Ernest H. Mathie (1946 – at least 1947).

BAKERS ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE