. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . of w hich we are part and parcel. The Board of Representatives and the Board of Engineers and Foremenappointed a joint committee to see to the suitable erection of a memorial. I h •committee was as follows: Messrs. Carlisle Norwood, C. L. Curtis, D. Rey-nolds Budd (Hose Company No. 36), H. B. Venn (Engine Company No. 14),J. Lynes. J. Slowev. I). Stanbury (Engine Company No. Jacob Ostrom(Hose Company No. 38), J. F. Wennian and W. H. Blague (Hookand LadderCompany No. 1). The resul
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . of w hich we are part and parcel. The Board of Representatives and the Board of Engineers and Foremenappointed a joint committee to see to the suitable erection of a memorial. I h •committee was as follows: Messrs. Carlisle Norwood, C. L. Curtis, D. Rey-nolds Budd (Hose Company No. 36), H. B. Venn (Engine Company No. 14),J. Lynes. J. Slowev. I). Stanbury (Engine Company No. Jacob Ostrom(Hose Company No. 38), J. F. Wennian and W. H. Blague (Hookand LadderCompany No. 1). The result was the placing of a tablet in Firemans Hall, 4;)<; or 11 F1RKMKX. (on the building committee of which Mr. Wade had served), with the followinginscription : To the Memory ofWilliam Durand Wade,Rorn January 18, 1826; Died January 11, 1856,* Aged Twenty-nine Years, Eleven Months, Twenty-one tablet is erected by the Fire Department of the city of New York, of which hewas president at the time of his death, a graceful tribute to his faithful and devoted atten-tion to its usefulness and MONUMENT TO WILLIAM DURAND WADE. John S. Giles, for many years treasurer of the old Department, was bornin 1799. As a lad he ran with the engines. At the age of twelve he went tosea and made two voyages before the mast to India. When but fifteen yearsof age he was apprenticed to a builder and worked with such a will that twoyears later he was able to start in business on his own account. He hadscarcely done so when he was burned out, and, being uninsured, lost every OCR FIR KM FN. 457 l>enny he had in the world. Nothing daunted, he set to work again as ajourneyman and wrought with untiring energy a1 liis trade until his thirty-second year, when by great self-denial he hail aeeumulated funds sufficient topay oil all the indebtedness due at the tunc of his misfortune and leave a bal-ance sullicient to re-establish himself on his own account. From that time hisaffairs pr
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