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William Larson

U.S. Coast Guard, North Beach Station · b. 1898

In charge of the North Beach Coast Guard Station — 'located on beach 10 miles north of Ocean City, Maryland, which is the nearest town' — at the 1940 census. 42 years old, born in New York, married; in 1935 he had been at Hog Island Coast Guard Station in Northampton County, Virginia. Ten men are listed as crew beneath him.

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  1. 1940 · 1940-04-01

    Two years before the beach patrol, the federal census counted the men of Ocean City Station and North Beach Station by name: fourteen at one, eleven at the other, and a Hudson still serving at North Beach sixty years after a Hudson kept it.

    Enumeration districts 24-23 and 24-25 are not neighbourhoods. They are institutions, and the enumerator wrote their names across the top of the sheet: 'Ocean City Station, U.S. Coast Guard' and 'North Beach Coast Guard Sta.' — the latter with a note in the location column, 'Located on beach 10 miles north of Ocean City, Maryland, which is the nearest town.' Ocean City Station, 1 April 1940, fourteen men, typed in block capitals: Arthur F. Heffelfinger, 32, of Pennsylvania, at the head of the household; Thomas T. Moore, 63, of Virginia; William J. Massey, 45; James D. Farlow, 45; Clifton Taylor, 33; Harry P. Kelly, 49; Lloyd Dennis, 44; Levin J. Bunting, 41; Harry D. Mitchell, 38; Walter R. Hastings, 29; Claud Donaway, 33; John M. Pusey, 37, of Delaware; George C. Gibbs, 47; and William H. Parker, 35, whose occupation the supplementary question records as surfman. North Beach, eleven: William Larson, 42, of New York, in charge, who had come from Hog Island Coast Guard Station in Northampton County, Virginia; Samuel L. Quillen, 49; Harry J. Pennewell, 37; Robert H. Fisher, 26, from Metomkin Inlet; Francis Massey, 33; Frank C. Phillips, 53; Fred K. Bunting, 22, also from Metomkin Inlet; Elwood W. Adkins, 33, from the Lewes station; Fred Guerin, 41, of Massachusetts, from Indian River; and Amos H. Hudson Jr., 45, of Delaware. Read the residence column and the whole Fifth District is in it: these men moved between Hog Island, Metomkin Inlet, Lewes and Indian River as the service posted them. And read the last name. Capt. John Andrew Jackson Hudson kept the North Beach Life-Saving Station on this same beach from about 1880 to 1909; in April 1940 an Amos H. Hudson Jr. is on its crew.

    United States Coast GuardUnited States Life-Saving ServiceArthur F. HeffelfingerAmos H. Hudson Jr.Capt. John Andrew Jackson Hudson

    Source · checked 2026-08-11