Summary
“Dad” Owen Gallagher is named in Clementine McCauley’s 1972 account as her father’s uncle and as captain and sole member of the Beaver Island Coast Guard Station in December 1900. After Mary McDonough learned that the Squaw Island light had gone dark, Gallagher took a tug to inspect the closed station.1
The 1902 Coast Pilot independently names an Owen Gallagher as keeper of the Beaver Island station. The graph keeps these as compatible source records but does not assert a complete civil identity bridge.
Open questions
- Which civil, station, or family records identify this Owen Gallagher and connect him to the 1902 keeper entry?
- What was the name of the tug used to inspect Squaw Island?
See also
- Squaw Island Light-Crew Tragedy (1900)
- Beaver Island Life-Saving Station
- Clementine McCauley (1972 Squaw Island family account)
Footnotes
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Clementine McCauley letter reprinted in Beaver Beacon, January 1972, “Squaw Island Story, Part II.” ↩
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 1972, “Squaw Island Story, Part II.”Clementine McCauley says Owen Gallagher was her father’s uncle, captain and sole member of the Beaver Island Coast Guard Station, and the person who took a tug to inspect the closed Squaw Island light.
- George Scott, Scott's New Coast Pilot for the Lakes, 6th ed. (Detroit, 1902), p. 310.The station list names an Owen Gallagher as keeper of the Beaver Island station in 1902; this is compatible context but not a civil identity bridge to the episode-qualified 1900 record.local_documents · 1902_scott-new-coast-pilot-for-the-lakes-6ed