. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . uing year: Robert , foreman ; James Province, assistant; William C. Talfmadge, secretary;James H. Thompson, treasurer; James E. Watson and Jacob Smith, repre-sentatives. The company was disbanded on December 26, 1855. Washington (the second No. 9).—Was organized July 19,1856, by WilliamTapper, Anthony A. Oliver, John H. Forman, John D. Ottiwell, John , John McCann, John B. Young, P. Henry Brady, Charles F. Lovejoy,Charles Norman, Samuel Oscar, Robinson W. Smith, a
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . uing year: Robert , foreman ; James Province, assistant; William C. Talfmadge, secretary;James H. Thompson, treasurer; James E. Watson and Jacob Smith, repre-sentatives. The company was disbanded on December 26, 1855. Washington (the second No. 9).—Was organized July 19,1856, by WilliamTapper, Anthony A. Oliver, John H. Forman, John D. Ottiwell, John , John McCann, John B. Young, P. Henry Brady, Charles F. Lovejoy,Charles Norman, Samuel Oscar, Robinson W. Smith, and Abraham L. located at 337 Fourth Avenue, and William Tapper was elected the firstforeman, and John H. Forman subsequently held this office. Their next loca-tion was at 132 East Twenty-sixth Street; after 1859 in Twenty-eighth Street,near Third Avenue; and went out of service in 1865. Among other memberswere Robert Amos, John K. Finck, Valentine Heiner, George B. Nicholson,Ferdinand Heigmann, Francis Dinsmore, and Isaac H. Archer. Xo. 10.—Narragansett—Cornelius V. Anderson.—This company was. OLD HOOK AND LADDER FRONTS. 690 OUR FI REM EN. organized on July I, 18:19. For a number of years previous to old Narra-gansett lay in Yorkville—at that tune hardly more than a suburban village,although within the corporate limits of the city—at the corner of Eighty-fifthStreet and Third Avenue. In the year mentioned, the company was by no means 1an alert or active one, its list of membership being made up very largely ofthose who enrolled as firemen in order to have a plausible excuse wherein- toescape jury duty. Many of the members lived miles from thecompanys head-quarters, and were never seen except when an election for ollicers was being held, or on s other special occasion. A majority of them would have been puzzled to identify the truck, and so seldom was it used that a rumor to theeffect that a hen had hatched a brood of chickens under it entirely undis
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