People & Families

Edward Rankin Jr.

Dates open

Also recorded as Edward D. Rankin · Edward Rankin Junior

Island story

Edward D. Rankin is reported as a South Lighthouse keeper from approximately 1945 to approximately 1965. The surviving sources do not establish his precise appointment chronology, exact family relationship or the meaning of the reported 1965 endpoint. The current evidence does not describe that endpoint as closure or automation.

Family connections

  • Exact Rankin family relationship remains open

Places

Related PIHS history

Sources and photo credits
  • PIHS lighthouse research
  • Protected factual-delta control
  • Existing canonical public profile