Station Oswego, New York
Coast Guard Station #232
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Location:
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On east side of entrance to Oswego River, 5/8 mile southeast of Oswego West Pierhead Light;
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Date of Conveyance:
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1879
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Station Built:
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1875
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Fate:
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Still in operation
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
William Williams was appointed keeper on 9 SEP 1876 and left in 1877.
John Blackburn was appointed keeper on 1 OCT 1877 and resigned on 23 OCT 1889.
Edwin E. Chapman was appointed keeper on 23 OCT 1889 and was appointed Superintendent of the district on 1 OCT 1892.
Frederick W. Anderson was appointed keeper on 28 OCT 1892 and was still serving in 1915.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.
Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.
U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.