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In late 1939, in a ceremony held at the top of the Stamford Lighthouse, and attended by assistant keepers Andrew McClintock and Abraham Halpern, Martin L. Sowle, Sr., was awarded the Silver Life-Saving Medal by Lt. Commander Philip E. Shaw, who said, “You made a heroic rescue and are the recipient of an outstanding medal.” On the back of the medal was an inscription that read, “To Martin L. Sowle for bravely rescuing a man from drowning October 2, 1939.”
After his decade and a half at Stamford Harbor Lighthouse, Sowle transferred to Greens Ledge Lighthouse in Connecticut where he served for two years. In 1955, he changed occupations to work at Nash Engineering in Norwalk, Connecticut. Martin Luther Sowle, Sr. died in 1976 at the Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. (Courtesy of David Sowle)
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