Lights of Navassa/Pregenerated Characters

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Born: 7 January 1885, Bridgeport, CT
Became a mariner like his father and grandfather before him; his father was a harbour pilot.
Had a college education at Wesleyan College.
Married 27 July 1910, to Mary Ann Wilkins of New Haven, CT
Two children: Sarah, a girl born 21 August 1911, very pretty and cheerful; Henry Jr, born 4 September 1913, who says he wants to follow in his father's footsteeps with a nautical career.
Joined the Lighthouse Service just in time for it to be put under the Department of the Navy for the Great War. Served on the Anemone in the 2nd District.
After the Lighthouse Service was returned to the Department of Commerce, he transferred to the 9th District on the advice of his wife's Osteopath, who thought the frigid Northeastern weather was affecting her health.
He thinks transferring caused him to miss career opportunities, but is confident he did the right thing in moving.
Henry's family are living in San Juan. His children are doing well, and his wife's health and spirits seem to have improved some.
Interested in science, particularly in geology and the ancient world.
A Methodist like the rest of his family, but not especially religious.

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Born: 27 July 1904, the Bronx, NY
Son of an established Irish family whose ancestors immigrated during the potato famine.
Third of five children, all boys.
Got into trouble a lot as a kid, often playing elaborate pranks on schoolmates and neighbours.
Taking courses with the International Correspondence School.
Didn't take much to school, but does like to read, especially the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
A practising Catholic.
Has a girlfriend in San Juan, Consuela, who would like to be married but her parents don't like him.
Plays the fiddle very well, but always by ear. (Rather than reading music.)
A sharp dresser, he owns two fashionable suits.

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Born: 7 July 1897, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Son of a good family, he had a reputation as a steady, reliable man.
He has been at Navassa twice before, in 1920 and 1922, as third and second assistant respectively.
His father owned a cobbler shop in Guaynabo, which his brother has inherited with the death of their father (of the Spanish Flu) in 1918.
A Catholic.
Fluent in Spanish and English.
Had a good education at a parochial school.
Married 10 December 1917.
Three children with wife Teresa:
1 January 1919, Mario, a boy (died in infancy, due to a congenital defect).
14 July 1921 a boy born, Miguel, now aged 5, very excited about the ocean voyage
4 September 1923 another child born, Rosalia, a girl.

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Born: 19 November 1900, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Fluent in Spanish and English, prefers Spanish.
Psychologically resilient and rather wilful
Collects pressed flowers
A pious Catholic
Married 10 December 1917.
Three children with husband Pedro
1 January 1919, Mario, a boy (died in infancy, due to a congenital defect).
14 July 1921, Miguel, a boy born, now aged 5, very excited about the ocean voyage
4 September 1923 another child born, Rosalia, a girl
Daughter of a customs house worker.

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Born: 18 September 1891, Youngstown, OH
Middle name is not "Whywontthedamnengine," regardless of what you may have heard.
The son of immigrants from Ayrshire, Scotland.
Parents became prosperous farmers.
Older brother, who had returned to the UK, died in the Great War at the Battle of the Somme.
Fascinated with riverboats as a boy.
Completed high school and a correspondence course for his engineering license.
Worked on a packet riverboat on the Ohio River before joining the lighthouse service
Served on an old sidewheeler lighthouse/buoy tender on the Western river system before being transferred to the 9th District
Married 20 August 1913, his wife is in San Juan with their two daughters, Susan and Madeline.
Daughter born 9 July 1913, Susan, tomboyish and once exploded a tea kettle after her father told her about steam engines. He is secretly proud.
Daughter born 22 July 1915, Madeline, shy and bookish in contrast to her sister.
Presbyterian.
A teetotaller and a Progressive. Cast his first presidential ballot in 1912 for the Bull Moose Party.

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Born: 3 February 1907, Georgetown County, South Carolina
Grandfather was born in 1865, the year the Civil War ended.
Father was a tenant farmer, as were two of his uncles.
Literate and good with arithmetic.
Virgil moved away from South Carolina to Philadelphia during the Great Migration. He worked in the war industries.
Moved to Puerto Rico, desiring a change in scenery, and to avoid the racism that he found was still definitely an issue in the North.
Answered a solicitation for crew in the lighthouse service when the Maga was delivered to the the 9th District.
Promoted to Fireman from Coal Passer in recognition of his diligence.
Hoping to work his way up further, he is studying engineering with the International Correspondence School. Mr. Startup supports him.
Writes poetry, which is pretty good, but it rarely meets his own standards.
Baptist, devout. Believes clean and sober living make a man a success.

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Born: 14 March 1882, Köln, Germany (the Rheinland)
Son of a factory worker who immigrated to Boston when Hans was 5.
Speaks English and German. Literate in both. German is his home language.
A very skilled machinist.
Interested in the latest technological developments, especially as they pertain to the lighthouse service, like the submarine bell and radio compass.
Radio operator on the Maga, knows Morse code.
Married 1901 to a German-American woman, Sophie, who died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
Four children: Eldest son George (b. 1902) is studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other children: Marie, b. 1904; Steven, b. 1907 (d. 1918 of pandemic flu), Willard (b. 1908).
One granddaughter, Else (1925), by his daughter Marie Trimble (nee Reiten), who is married and lives in Rhode Island.
Willard is graduating high school and may attend college as well, if the finances can be arranged.
His maiden sister, Lise, helped raise his kids after Sophie died.
Smokes a meerschaum pipe.

Lights of Navassa/Pregenerated Characters (last edited 2016-11-24 00:39:54 by Bryce)