. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . M. J. Head,Owen J. Kelly, Francis J. Twomey (clerk of the Common Council), ex-Alder-man Thomas McSpedon, Matthew , and a number of citizens, or-ganized Aqueduct Engine CompanyNo. 47. M. J. Read was elected foreman,and Owen J. KeWy assistant company was located in Eighty-second Street east of Fourth life of the organization was some cause the company was dis-banded September 18, 1855. In 1861Mr. Shannon joined Americus HoseCompany No. 48,
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . M. J. Head,Owen J. Kelly, Francis J. Twomey (clerk of the Common Council), ex-Alder-man Thomas McSpedon, Matthew , and a number of citizens, or-ganized Aqueduct Engine CompanyNo. 47. M. J. Read was elected foreman,and Owen J. KeWy assistant company was located in Eighty-second Street east of Fourth life of the organization was some cause the company was dis-banded September 18, 1855. In 1861Mr. Shannon joined Americus HoseCompany No. 48, located in Eighty-fifthStreet west of Third Avenue. After ashort service Mr. Shannon was electedassistant foreman. At the next annualelection he was made foreman, and re-mained in command until the dissolutionof the Old Department. Joseph H. Tooker, who is moregenerally known by his popular title of Commodore, acquired by hisposition of manager of the mammoth Rockaway steamboats GrandRepublic and Columbia, and previously as commander of the renownedLong Branch steamer Plymouth Rock, is an old-time fireman. He. MATTHEW J. SHANNON. was () r R K 1 It K .M K N once, in IS.*)., assistant foreman of Rutgers Hose Company No. 1C>, andafterwards joined Victory Hose Company No. 1>. when t hey occupied t hehouse in Eldridge Street, by Division. In those days Mr. Tooker wasfrequently called upon to write obituary and complimentary resolutions forvarious Are engine and target companies, and his pen is kept busy evenin these later days upon local reminiscences, winch for the past year he hascontributed to the columns of the New York Times. He wrote humorousletters over the nam de plume of John Bolivar for the Boston SaturdayEvenina liazcttc, originated ••Shipping Noies in the New York Herald,and contributed semi-political articles over the signatures of • The WidowRogers and ••Walton for the old Sunday Atlas. He was first marshalunder Mayor A. Oakey Hall, and for five years
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