40 MILE POINT
LIGHTHOUSE

Forty Mile Point Lighthouse
Keepers and Assistants

The following information was compiled from the original Forty Mile Point Lighthouse journal.

April 30, 1897	Keeper Xavier Rains and his wife, Evie Smith Rains
	Assistant Edward J. Lane and his wife, Tine Disette Lane
December 21, 1901	Edward J. Lane went to Detroit
March 29, 1902	Keeper Xavier Rains -- Assistant Charles Ferris
August 2, 1903	Charles Ferris went to Port Austin
August 10, 1903	Keeper Xavier Rains -- Assistant Herbert N. Burrows
August 27, 1906	Assistant Herbert N. Burrows went to Crisp Point
September 9, 1906	Keeper Xavier Rains -- Assistant John E. Smith (Mr. Rains’ brother-in-law)
April 21, 1911	Keeper Rains transferred to the Mamajuda Range Light in the lower Detroit River
May 1, 1911	Mr. Rains turned the keys over to John E. Smith
May 3, 1911	Keeper John E. Smith Assistant C. J. Price (who drowned at another location on July 5, 1920)
April 18, 1912	Keeper John E. Smith
	Mr. Xavier Rains returned to Forty Mile Point as the Assistant Lighthouse Keeper (Retired January, 1921)
March 26, 1921	Keeper John E. Smith -- Assistant Elmer I. Bassett
April 8, 1922	Keeper John E. Smith - Assistant Louis A. Dissett
April 25, 1926	Assistant Louis A. Dissett transferred as Assistant Keeper to the Marquette light station
	Alva Gordon Carpenter, Assistant, transferred to 40 Mile Point from Granite Island light
September 1, 1929	Keeper John E. Smith transferred to the Ft Gratiot Light at Port Huron, Michigan
September 30, 1929	Keeper Paul Klebba from Alpena -- Assistant C. P. Tupper
April 7, 1932	Assistant C. P. Tupper departed for Poe Reef and Louis Hudak arrived from Poe Reef
	Keeper Paul Klebba -- Assistant Louis Hudak
April 13, 1936	Temporary Keeper Joseph Metivier from Cheboygan -- Assistant Louis Hudak
August 1, 1936	Keeper C. P. Tupper -- Assistant Louis Hudak Both remained until 1943 when the Coast Guard assumed responsibility for the lighthouse.