. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . theypresented him with a handsomely engrossed copy of complimentary resolutionsand an elegant silver trumpet, on which were engraved a facsimile of theirhose carriage and their headquarters, Firemens Hall. In 1853 he was electedSecretary of the Board of Engineers and Foremen, and was one of thecommittee appointed to build the New Firemens Hall. He held the positionof secretary until his election as assistant engineer. On his retiring from theEngineer Board, in 1859, they present
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . theypresented him with a handsomely engrossed copy of complimentary resolutionsand an elegant silver trumpet, on which were engraved a facsimile of theirhose carriage and their headquarters, Firemens Hall. In 1853 he was electedSecretary of the Board of Engineers and Foremen, and was one of thecommittee appointed to build the New Firemens Hall. He held the positionof secretary until his election as assistant engineer. On his retiring from theEngineer Board, in 1859, they presented him with a copy of complimentaryresolutions, suitably engrossed (the first and only ones ever presented by theBoard of Engineers to a retiring member). At the Jennings Are in 1854 Mr. Wenman was foreman of Hose 5. Inregard to that fire says, if he had had his trumpet with him, hemight have saved the lives of some who were crushed by the second falling ofthe floors, as from his position, in the rear of the adjoining buildiug, he sawthe beams giving way, and called out to back out quick. His brother. JAMES F. WENMAN. OlR FIREMEN. «5 zziah Wilson recognized the voice, and jumped out into the rear, escapingvilli a slight bruise. At the Kipp & Brown flre in May, 1848, there was a report that a sick mantad been Lefl in a small shanty back in an alley. Mr. Wennian and brotheruade their way in, jusi in time to seize the sheet on either end and bring thenan out, more dead than alive. Mr. Wennian became a member of the Firemens Ball Committee in849 (when C. V. Anderson was its president), and is now its president, having>een unanimously elected to that position for twenty-two consecutive years,le was also elected to the position of Treasurer of the Exempt Firemensieiievolent Fund on the death of John S. Giles. On the organization ofhe Veteran Firemens Association he was selected as their treasurer,i ml a few of his friends bad a full length portrait of him painted in oil
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