Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . elfequal to the occasion, and Cregier exhibited the same undaunted spirit that was evershown when under fire in this city. All praise to the warrior braves of the FireZouaves! George T. Hope, President of the Continental Fire InsuranceCompany, and formerly President of the Board of Fire Underwritersin New York, died July 27, 1885, at his residence in Bay Ridge,L. I. He was born at Hopewell, in Orange County, N. Y., in nineteen years old he was Secretary of the Jefferson Insur-ance Company
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . elfequal to the occasion, and Cregier exhibited the same undaunted spirit that was evershown when under fire in this city. All praise to the warrior braves of the FireZouaves! George T. Hope, President of the Continental Fire InsuranceCompany, and formerly President of the Board of Fire Underwritersin New York, died July 27, 1885, at his residence in Bay Ridge,L. I. He was born at Hopewell, in Orange County, N. Y., in nineteen years old he was Secretary of the Jefferson Insur-ance Company, and had he lived eight days longer, he would havepassed the fiftieth year of his life as an officer of insurance compa-nies. In 1853, when the Continental was founded, he became secre-tary. Two or three years later he was chosen president. He wasa Director of the Fidelity and Casualty Company, and becamewidely known as the originator and promoter of the New YorkSafety Fund law, which provides for a reserve fund against unfore-seen losses. In his younger days Mr. Hope belonged to the Volun-.
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