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Annual Report of the United States Lifesaving Service
For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1893
pp. 60-61


        DEATH OF SUPERINTENDENT ETHERIDGE.

        By the death of CAPTAIN JOSEPH W. ETHERIDGE, superintendent of the
     Sixth Life-Saving District at Beaufort, North Carolina, February 15,
     1893, the Service suffered the loss of a competent and zealous
     officer. CAPTAIN ETHERIDGE was born in Chowan County, near Edenton,
     North Carolina, in the vicinity of Albemarle Sound, August 14, 1839.
     Located by the accident of birth in the vicinity of expansive interior
     waters communicating with the ocean, he made himself thoroughly
     acquainted in his youth with the bays, sounds, and coasts of his
     native State and acquired a nautical experience that served him in
     good stead in the business of later life.
        In early manhood CAPTAIN ETHERIDGE taught school in the vicinity of
     Edenton. During the civil war he served awhile as an officer in the
     Union Army and later as a pilot upon United States gunboats. He also
     served a term in the legislature of North Carolina. He followed the
     business of a fisherman and merchant for many years, and came in
     contact with a large number of people, whose respect and good will he
     enjoyed for his substantial character and kindly disposition.
        He was for ten years superintendent of the Sixth Life-Saving
     District, embracing all the stations on the North Carolina coast, as
     well as those on the shore of Virginia south of Cape Henry, and proved
     himself vigorous and efficient.
        While on a tour of duty, making a winter's journey along the bleak
     and isolated coast of North Carolina, he contracted pneumonia, which
     ran to a speedy and fatal termination.

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