. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . M K N. the first president; Thomas Tom, vice-president; Frederick Devoe, .J;ibSherred, James Stewart, John Striker, James Tylee, Benjamin Strong,Thomas Brown, Stephen Smith, and Christopher Halstead, trustees; Nicholas!Van Antwerp, treasurer; James Parsons, Jr.,secretary; and Martin Morrison,collector. The trustees were divided into three classes: the first class to go oui ofoffice the first year; the second, the second year: and 1 he third, the third t rusters manage
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . M K N. the first president; Thomas Tom, vice-president; Frederick Devoe, .J;ibSherred, James Stewart, John Striker, James Tylee, Benjamin Strong,Thomas Brown, Stephen Smith, and Christopher Halstead, trustees; Nicholas!Van Antwerp, treasurer; James Parsons, Jr.,secretary; and Martin Morrison,collector. The trustees were divided into three classes: the first class to go oui ofoffice the first year; the second, the second year: and 1 he third, the third t rusters managed t he affairs and disposed of 1 he funds of the corporationaccording to the by-laws, rules, and regulations. The funds of the corporation were obtained from chimney fines, certificates,donations, etc. The incorporation of the Fire Department appears to have acted signalfor the formation of fire insurance corporal ions. Thai arm of the commerceof our great city, now grown so powerful and far-reaching, holding within itssweep untold millions of capital, was represented at this period, so far as the. DUTCH COTTAGES, BROAD AND GARDEN STREETS, 1800. statutes of this state indicate, only by two companies, known as The UnitedInsurance Company and The Mutual Assurance Company. The latter company was incorporated in 1798, March 23, on the mutualplan, and among its incorporators are to be found names familiar to all insur-ance men, many of which will be found intimately associated with the historyand progress of life, as well as fire insurance in this city. They embrace suchnames as Thomas Pearsall, Nicholas Gouverneur, Abraham Varick, WynantVan Zandt, Samuel Franklin, John Thompson, Robert Lenox, Gulian Verplank,Samuel Bowne, and Leonard Bleecker. The first intimation in the municipal records of the Fire Department, oftrouble arising from personal disagreements among members of a company, isgiven in the proceedings of the Board of Aldermen dated February 12, it is set
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