Keweenaw Peninsula

August 5, 1875 - Principal Keeper left for Houghton at 4:30 p.m. with Steam Launch "Little Will" for inspection. Went to L'Anse saw there the Hon. Jay Hubball from this district who informed me that I and my wife were to be removed from this station, the cause thereof he did not know. Also of the removal of P.C. Bird of Eagle Harbor and Ashman of White Fish Point Light. And in anticipation of removal I sent in my own and my wife's resignation to take immediate effect.

June 24, 1900 - I opened this journal today after having used the old one for nearly fifteen years. Our two children grown from infants to a full grown young man and woman and this little house is the place that they have learned to call home, Sweet Home ! ! Be it ever so humble there is no place like home. What an uncertain world this is. Who can look into the future? And who would want to? I made the first entry in this journal on a quiet Sabbath afternoon. Who will write the closing one? echo answers, who?