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Silver Life-Saving Medal awardee Captain Thomas Jefferson Steinhise, the lighthouse keeper at Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse, from a photograph that appeared in a 1936 edition of the Atlantic Weekly. Thomas J. Steinhise [Steinhice] joined the U.S. Lighthouse Service in 1918 and became an assistant keeper of the Tangier Sound Lighthouse in Virginia, serving there with his brother-in-law, who may have been the person who convinced him to join the Lighthouse Service. In February of 1919 he was appointed head keeper of the Cedar Point Lighthouse, but he resigned eight months later. In March of 1927 he rejoined the U.S. Lighthouse Service and became the keeper of the Ragged Point Lighthouse in Maryland. On December 16, 1930 he was appointed as the keeper of Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse. He retired on May 31, 1941 for medical reasons. He died on July 22, 1949.
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Heroic Rescue at Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse
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