Digest>Nov/Dec 2017
Photo Caption:
Captain John de Rocha Monteiro was born in the Azores in February 1865. He immigrated to the United States at age 17 and started out in the United States Lighthouse Service as a seaman on the lighthouse tender Verbena five years later. (Courtesy Anna Monteiro Brans.) Back to the edition of: Nov/Dec 2017
Story:
Giving His All Until Death: Captain John R. Monteiro
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