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James W. Hogg
Life dates open; East keeper 1881–1892 reported
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James W. Hogg continued the Hogg family’s East End lighthouse service after Andrew Hogg. PIHS’s keeper chronology places him in charge from 1881 until his resignation in 1892. His biography extends well beyond keeper succession. During the 1884 Inveralt salvage operation, PIHS research records James W. Hogg as acquiring salvage rights and later leading an Island rescue party after a wrecking lifeboat overturned in a gale. Government recognition records list a binocular glass for James W. Hogg, while other Island rescuers received silver watches. That convergence of lighthouse service, salvage work and rescue gives James one of the strongest non-cemetery nineteenth-century Island biographies in the collection. PIHS identifies him as Andrew Hogg’s son; a primary vital parent-child bridge remains desirable but is no longer necessary for the core occupational narrative.
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- East End Lighthouse Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
- East Point/Inveralt salvage waters Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
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- PIHS Keeping the Island Lit; Inveralt government/newspaper research; PIHS Wrecks, Ice & Rescue; lighthouse keeper chronology
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195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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- Andrew H. Hogg → parent of James W. Hogg · PIHS keeper history; vital kinship record not recovered