. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . a repre-sentative. He was one of the organizers and members of the Baxter LightGuard (named in honor of Lieut-Col. Baxter, who was killed in the MexicanWar. He had been a member of the Volunteer Fire Department and also ofthe Peterson Guard. He likewise was one of the organizers of the AtlanticLight Guard and was elected the first captain. Mr. Childs at an early age became connected with the express Hoey and he were boys together in the Adams Express Co. For manyye
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . a repre-sentative. He was one of the organizers and members of the Baxter LightGuard (named in honor of Lieut-Col. Baxter, who was killed in the MexicanWar. He had been a member of the Volunteer Fire Department and also ofthe Peterson Guard. He likewise was one of the organizers of the AtlanticLight Guard and was elected the first captain. Mr. Childs at an early age became connected with the express Hoey and he were boys together in the Adams Express Co. For manyyears he was superintendent of the New York Transfer Company, and hadcharge of the transportation of the United States mail. He organized theDodd & Childs Express Company, of Jersey City, and for several years hasbeen baggage agent of the Fall River Line of steamers. He resides on JerseyCity Heights and is a member of both the Veteran Firemens and the VolunteerFiremens Association. He was born in Albany, N. Y., and is a descendantof the Childs family that settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1630, being of the sixth. Ol It K1KKMEN. generation. Twenty-two of thai family were of the first company of volun-teers and minute men at Lexington, .Mass., April 1!), 177), when the boys ofthose days taught John Bulls regulars what volunteers could do. Edward Haioht, the president of the Commonwealth Bank, was anenthusiastic fireman. On one occasion he turned out with his engine thirteentimes in six days, a feat that he was fond of citing in later years as an exampleof the amount of work that the old-timers could do. In order to insure being-roused in case of lire, he had an ingenious attachment fitted to his front doorby which the ringing of the door bell started an alarm bell in his * was a member of the Association of Exempt Firemen. His live sons allserved their time in the Department. John Kittleman, affectionately known as Old Kit, a member of EmpireHook and Ladder Company No. 40. w
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