Digest>Mar/Apr 2013
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Maine native Sumner Increase Kimball was the only person to ever be General Superintendent of the United States Life-Saving Service. His position ended in 1915 when the Life-Saving Service and the Revenue Marine Service were merged to create the United States Coast Guard. (Lighthouse Digest archives.) Back to the edition of: Mar/Apr 2013
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Sumner I. Kimball and Whitehead Island
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