Eugene Larsen was a career light station man. His family is mentioned in the book Thachers: island of the twin lights:
“ Eugene Norman Larsen and John Edwin Herbert Cook were the two earliest career men to receive appointments to Thachers. Larsen was a Norwegian, born in Oslo in 1879. He married a Norwegian girl, Edvardine Reinertsen, but soon immigrated to the United States, where he changed his Norwegian name of Eugene Hjalman Larsen to the more American version of Eugene Norman Larsen. Their first child, Eugene Ernest, was five years old when the family moved from Minot’s Light Station in 1911, where Eugene had first served. In May 1912 their second child joined the family on Thachers Island and was christened Alice Thacher. The family moved from the island after eighteen months, first serving at Graves Light in Boston Harbor, then Sankety Light at Nantucket, where Eugene served until his retirement in 1944. Meanwhile, after Alice Thacher, the family had five more daughters. Maron Anton’s Norwegian name became the French Marie Antoinette, but by the time the next four daughters were born Americanization was complete, and the girls received the very American names of Thelma Anne, Ethel Alma, Helen Edith, and Evelyn Doris.
Eugene Larsen served as first assistant to the aging Addison Tarr at a salary of $540 per year.”
p.84-85, Thachers: island of the twin lights, Eleanor C. Parsons, Phoenix Publishing, NH, 1985
“ Eugene Norman Larsen and John Edwin Herbert Cook were the two earliest career men to receive appointments to Thachers. Larsen was a Norwegian, born in Oslo in 1879. He married a Norwegian girl, Edvardine Reinertsen, but soon immigrated to the United States, where he changed his Norwegian name of Eugene Hjalman Larsen to the more American version of Eugene Norman Larsen. Their first child, Eugene Ernest, was five years old when the family moved from Minot’s Light Station in 1911, where Eugene had first served. In May 1912 their second child joined the family on Thachers Island and was christened Alice Thacher. The family moved from the island after eighteen months, first serving at Graves Light in Boston Harbor, then Sankety Light at Nantucket, where Eugene served until his retirement in 1944. Meanwhile, after Alice Thacher, the family had five more daughters. Maron Anton’s Norwegian name became the French Marie Antoinette, but by the time the next four daughters were born Americanization was complete, and the girls received the very American names of Thelma Anne, Ethel Alma, Helen Edith, and Evelyn Doris.
Eugene Larsen served as first assistant to the aging Addison Tarr at a salary of $540 per year.”
p.84-85, Thachers: island of the twin lights, Eleanor C. Parsons, Phoenix Publishing, NH, 1985
Eugene Larsen was a career light station man. His family is mentioned in the book Thachers: island of the twin lights:
“ Eugene Norman Larsen and John Edwin Herbert Cook were the two earliest career men to receive appointments to Thachers. Larsen was a Norwegian, born in Oslo in 1879. He married a Norwegian girl, Edvardine Reinertsen, but soon immigrated to the United States, where he changed his Norwegian name of Eugene Hjalman Larsen to the more American version of Eugene Norman Larsen. Their first child, Eugene Ernest, was five years old when the family moved from Minot’s Light Station in 1911, where Eugene had first served. In May 1912 their second child joined the family on Thachers Island and was christened Alice Thacher. The family moved from the island after eighteen months, first serving at Graves Light in Boston Harbor, then Sankety Light at Nantucket, where Eugene served until his retirement in 1944. Meanwhile, after Alice Thacher, the family had five more daughters. Maron Anton’s Norwegian name became the French Marie Antoinette, but by the time the next four daughters were born Americanization was complete, and the girls received the very American names of Thelma Anne, Ethel Alma, Helen Edith, and Evelyn Doris.
Eugene Larsen served as first assistant to the aging Addison Tarr at a salary of $540 per year.”
p.84-85, Thachers: island of the twin lights, Eleanor C. Parsons, Phoenix Publishing, NH, 1985
“ Eugene Norman Larsen and John Edwin Herbert Cook were the two earliest career men to receive appointments to Thachers. Larsen was a Norwegian, born in Oslo in 1879. He married a Norwegian girl, Edvardine Reinertsen, but soon immigrated to the United States, where he changed his Norwegian name of Eugene Hjalman Larsen to the more American version of Eugene Norman Larsen. Their first child, Eugene Ernest, was five years old when the family moved from Minot’s Light Station in 1911, where Eugene had first served. In May 1912 their second child joined the family on Thachers Island and was christened Alice Thacher. The family moved from the island after eighteen months, first serving at Graves Light in Boston Harbor, then Sankety Light at Nantucket, where Eugene served until his retirement in 1944. Meanwhile, after Alice Thacher, the family had five more daughters. Maron Anton’s Norwegian name became the French Marie Antoinette, but by the time the next four daughters were born Americanization was complete, and the girls received the very American names of Thelma Anne, Ethel Alma, Helen Edith, and Evelyn Doris.
Eugene Larsen served as first assistant to the aging Addison Tarr at a salary of $540 per year.”
p.84-85, Thachers: island of the twin lights, Eleanor C. Parsons, Phoenix Publishing, NH, 1985
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