. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . olunteer Department was in existence to-day he wouldjoin it. Francis J. Twomey, now clerk of the Common Council, was born in 1825in Canada, not far from Montreal, and came to New York with his parentswhen he was eleven years old. After running with the engines as a lad hejoined Aurora Engine Company No. 40. then lying on the northeast corner ofEighty-fifth Street and Third Avenue, on February 2, 1847. He served his fulltune with that company, and subsequently assisted in organiz
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . olunteer Department was in existence to-day he wouldjoin it. Francis J. Twomey, now clerk of the Common Council, was born in 1825in Canada, not far from Montreal, and came to New York with his parentswhen he was eleven years old. After running with the engines as a lad hejoined Aurora Engine Company No. 40. then lying on the northeast corner ofEighty-fifth Street and Third Avenue, on February 2, 1847. He served his fulltune with that company, and subsequently assisted in organizing AqueductEngine No. 10, lying in Eighty-second Street, near Third Avenue, andserved with her for several years. He is a member of the Associationof Exempt Firemen. Captain Twomey began life in the printing office ofFrancis ,,of St. Thomass Hall College, Flushing. L. I., wherehe served his apprenticeship. In the fall of 1844, his apprenticeship beingover, he came to New York and went to work in the Sun job printing office, thenat the corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets. Subsequently he worked as a. :, l OKK Kilt KM EN. compositor on the Evening Mirror, then owned and edited by GeneralGeorge I\ Morris. Nathaniel P. Willis and Hiram Fuller, and on the Hom$Journal. In 184!) he entered the employ of Messrs. McSpedon & Baker,prinlcrs to tin- (orporat ion, ;il No. •..> Pine Si reel, and remained with thern tillis.).). Kor two years lie had complete charge of their establishment. In 1 855he was elected one of the assessors of the Ninete- nth Ward, and in the follow-ing year was appointed police captain of that Ward by Mayor KernandoWood, Recorder .lames M. Smith and City Judge Sydney , who werethen police commissioners. He continued in command until the organizationof t lie Met ropolitan Police Department in the following year, (hi October 1,ls.)T, he was appointed an assistant clerk in the office of David T. Valentine,then clerk of the (oinmon Council, and
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