Digest>Mar/Apr 2017

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Ambrose Wasgatt (l) is shown here in his retirement years with an unidentified man looking up the sky, perhaps at a newfangled airplane flying over. A Civil War veteran, he had enlisted in the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery on November 21 1862. Twice wounded, once in June of 1864 with a bullet in the right shoulder at the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia, he laid all night in the drenching rain on the battlefield before he was rescued. The other time he was injured in the side by shell fire. He was discharged from the Army on September 14, 1865, and ten years later he joined the Lighthouse Service. However family records indicate that he joined the Lighthouse Service in 1874 and not 1875. Ambrose Wasgatt married Adelma when she was 15 years old, and the couple raised all seven of their children, two boys and five girls, at the lighthouses. Their children’s names were Emily, Francis (Frank), Flora, Cora, William, Marion, and Ada (Evelyn). At some point, Adelma Wasgatt changed her first name to Delia. (Photo courtesy Larry Reynolds.)
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Ambrose H. Wasgatt – 1st Keeper of Egg Rock Lighthouse
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