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LeRoy White was a jack-of-all-trades for the first nine years following his high school graduation in the summer of 1929. He was a substitute keeper for the U.S. Lighthouse Service for the rest of that year, as well as from 1933 to 1938 at multiple lighthouses in District 18. He also worked at the U.S. Lighthouse Service Depot in 1937 and for the District 18 Engineering Department on and off. In-between his lighthouse jobs, LeRoy did other short-term work as a painter and electrician’s helper; driver; mail messenger for three years (1930 to 1933); mechanic for a dredging company; service station attendant and a stone mason apprentice. But following his marriage in 1938, with no permanent lighthouse job in the offing, LeRoy decided it was time to take up a more settled occupation, and in June of 1939, he started with Douglas Aircraft and was working as a top-stitching operator within a year. This 1938 photo, taken shortly after he began his employment there, shows him on the far right in the data processing department. (Courtesy of Betty Westby)
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The Demon Substitute Keeper
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