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2. Grace Darling - Wikipedia

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   Ida Walley Lewis, an American lighthouse keeper noted for rescuing numerous people in the latter half of the 19th century Grace Bussell , a 16-year-old Australian girl who along with Sam Isaacs rescued 50 people from the SS Georgette when it foundered off the West Australian coast in 1876, is regarded as Australia's national heroine.

3. Arielle North Olson - Wikipedia

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   Arielle is the daughter of noted author Sterling North, who wrote Rascal. She is also the niece of author, poet and editor Jessica Nelson North. She is one of the copyright owners of Sterling North's body of work. She now has three children and seven grandchildren, and is a resident of St. Louis, Missouri.

4. Lighthouse keeper - Wikipedia

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   The Lighthouse Keepers (1929 film) The Lightkeepers (2009 film by Daniel Adams) Lighthouse Keeping Loonies (1975 TV series episode) The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter a.k.a. Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952 film) Pete's Dragon (1977 film by Don Chaffey) "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" (1971 song by Van der Graaf Generator)

5. Henry Hall (lighthouse keeper) - Wikipedia

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   [2] Hall continued to help his fellow lighthouse keepers but the three were unable to put the fire out. [3] The men were forced to retreat down the tower and eventually made their way to a cave to avoid the falling red hot debris. [1] The lighthouse continued to burn into the morning and would continue to burn for the next five days. [3]

6. Abbie Burgess - Wikipedia

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   Abbie was the fourth of nine children of Samuel and Thankful (Phinney) Burgess, [1] [2] who moved to Matinicus Rock in 1853 to become its lighthouse keeper. [3] Although only 15, she soon took over duties of tending the lighthouse so that Samuel could fish and catch lobster, which he sold in Rockland, Maine, 25 miles (40 km) away.

7. Katherine Walker - Wikipedia

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   Katherine Walker (née Katharina Görtler; November 25, 1848 [1] – February 5, 1931) was a German-American lighthouse keeper. Walker tended the Robbins Reef Light in New York Harbor for more than 30 years after the death of her husband, Captain John Walker, who had been appointed keeper of the light in 1885. [ 2 ]

8. Captain January (1924 film) - Wikipedia

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   Captain January is a young girl who lives in a lighthouse in Maine with her guardian, Jeremiah "Daddy" Judkins (Hobart Bosworth). Judkins, who is the lighthouse keeper, rescued January from a shipwreck when she was an infant. The only clue to the baby's identity was a locket with a photograph of a woman around her neck, so Judkins adopted her ...

9. Elizabeth Whitney Williams - Wikipedia

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   Williams (née Whitney) was born on Mackinac Island, Michigan, on June 24, 1844.By the time she was four years old, her family had moved to Beaver Island where her father, a carpenter, worked for the Mormon leader "King" James Strang. [2]