Title:
A passion for saving lives
Author:
Baumann, Paul
Subjects:
United States. Coast Guard--History
Lifesaving stations--History
United States. Life-Saving Service
Point Allerton Lifesaving Station, Hull (Mass.)
Lifesaving stations--History
United States. Life-Saving Service
Point Allerton Lifesaving Station, Hull (Mass.)
Object ID:
scr-022-101-103
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London
Pubication Date:
07/21/1988
Collection:
Indian and Colonial Scrapbook
Summary:
Details the career of Joshua James, volunteer with the Massachusetts Humane Society. Having witnessed his mother and brother drown just offshore as a child, he dedicated his life to saving people from ships in distress along the Massachusetts shoreline. In 1889 he was assigned to the U.S. Life Saving Service station at Point Allerton in Hull, Massachusetts. The LSS eventually merged with the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service to become the United States Coast Guard. Retired Wesleyan philosophy professor Philip Hallie is working on a novel about James. Great-great grandson Dennis R. Means shares some of his research.
People:
Hallie, Philip
James, Joshua, 1826-1902
Means, Dennis R.
James, Joshua, 1826-1902
Means, Dennis R.