. The Exempt firemen of San Francisco; their unique and gallant record. GEORGE VAN POOL ENGINE COMPANY NO. 6. Engine No. 6 is one of the originalcompanies of the paid Fire Department,and went into service on December 3,1866. The original members of thecompany were : Foreman, Adam Smith ;engineer, Wm. Smith ; driver, R. Ten-nent; fireman, I. P. Wyckoff; assistantfireman, James Riley; clerk, Chris. ,<<^^. CAPT. J. J. CONROY SAN FRANCISCO FIREMEN Cox ; extramen, John Conway, JohnMurphy, T. DonnecHff, Tom Sawyer,E. H. Sparhawk and W. Crimmins. The captain of the company is J. , a nat
. The Exempt firemen of San Francisco; their unique and gallant record. GEORGE VAN POOL ENGINE COMPANY NO. 6. Engine No. 6 is one of the originalcompanies of the paid Fire Department,and went into service on December 3,1866. The original members of thecompany were : Foreman, Adam Smith ;engineer, Wm. Smith ; driver, R. Ten-nent; fireman, I. P. Wyckoff; assistantfireman, James Riley; clerk, Chris. ,<<^^. CAPT. J. J. CONROY SAN FRANCISCO FIREMEN Cox ; extramen, John Conway, JohnMurphy, T. DonnecHff, Tom Sawyer,E. H. Sparhawk and W. Crimmins. The captain of the company is J. , a native of San Francisco,where he was born March 4, 1868. Hejoined the department in 1891 as truck-man of Truck No. 3, then transferred toEngine No. 17, of which he becameassistant foreman. Was appointed fore-man of Engine No. 9 in 1897, irid nowranks as captain of Engine No. 6. The other members of the companyare: Lieutenant, Julius De Meyer; en-gineer, P. H. Brandon ; driver, JosephMcDonald ; stoker, Charles Neil; hose-men, John Titus, Edward Daunet,Patrick Sullivan, Thomas Parker andJoseph Bailey. For nearly 35 years the company hasbattled with the flames at all the notablefires of this city, and has saved the mer-cantile community many hundreds ofthousands of dollars against loss by has an American fire engine.
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