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THOMAS J. DOUGHERTY |
Fireman- Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 |
At No. 450 Pearl Street, on the seventeenth of January, 1871,
rescued an old and feeble woman from a room on the rear of the third
floor. |
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EDWARD W. WILHELM |
Assistant Foremen-Engine Co. No. 13 |
On the tenth of January, 1871, render incalculable service by
extinguishing, without an alarm, a fire which broke out on the fifth
floor of the Prescott House. |
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CHAS. L. KELLY |
Assistant Foreman-Engine Co. No. 9 |
On the ninth of February, 1871, at a fire in a liquor store on
the northeast corner of Division and Forsyth Streets, an, entering
the building on fire, dragged three suffocated person to a window
and passed them to men on ladders. |
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DENTON E. HEMSWORTH |
Fireman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 6 |
At No. 37 East Broadway, on the second of March, 1871, rescued a
husband, wife and child who were cut off from escape on the upper
floor of the building. |
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WILLIAM F. CRAFT |
Fireman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 |
Aided in this rescue.
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WILLIAM McKENZIE |
Fireman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 |
Aided in this rescue. |
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THOMAS FARRELL |
Foreman of Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 |
Also assisted. |
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AMBROSE L. AUSTIN |
Fireman-Engine Co. No. 15 |
Was, on the twenty-fourth of April, 1871, attending to duty at
the Repair Yard in Elizabeth Street when an alarm of fire came for
an outbreak at no. 33 Bowery. Going there, he saw a woman fall from
the basement steps into what appeared to be a furnace. Austin,
rescuing her, was burned about the face. |
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PETER WEIR |
Foreman-Engine Co. No. 25 |
On the Seventeenth of August, 1871, at No. 15 Forsyth Street,
went through smoke and flames to the sixth floor, rescued a woman
and child, getting through the roof scuttle, carried them to a place
of safety. |
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ROBERT A. McFARLAND |
Assistant Fireman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 4 |
On the Twenty-third of December, 1871, at No. 479 Tenth Avenue
and No. 502 West Fifty-first Street, rescued two children from a
room on the second story. |
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JOHN BROWN |
Fireman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 4 |
Did similar service at this fire. |
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THOMAS HENRY |
Assistant Foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 6 |
At No. 23 Suffolk Street, on the fifteenth of February, 1872,
saved eight lives, those of Mr. and Mrs. Metz, Mary Walsh, Mrs.
Greenwood, and four children. they were cut off on the second floor,
and Henry passed them all out to his comrades. |
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GEORGE McLAUGHLIN |
Assistant Foreman-Engine Co. No. 31 |
At No. 161 Leonard Street, on the seventh of April, 1872, at
great personal risk, a colored woman, who, while tipsy, had set fire
to her apartment.
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THOMAS HUTCHINSON |
Foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 |
At No. 63 Baxter Street, on the twentieth of December, 1872, was
compelled by fire and smoke to retreat to a rear fire escape on the
second floor. Hanging to the fire escape of the third floor was a
boy, who, at Hutchinson's bidding. let go, and Hutchinson caught him
and saved him. |
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WILLIAM ROWE, JAMES HEANY, JAMES McGIVNEY, AND THOMAS D. REILLY |
Foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No 9, Assistant Foreman, Fireman, and
Fireman |
Maillard's confectionery store, restaurant and hotel, Nos. 619
and 621 Broadway, were on fire on the Twenty-seventh of December,
1872. The majority of the guests aroused in the dead of a bitter
cold night, escaped in their night clothes, but a few were surprised
and cut off. Foreman Rowe risked his life in entering the building,
and was instrumental in saving Julia Mulhearn, Benjamin Fitch,
Rosaanna Daly, August Clause, Mary Fox and a Mr. Gordon |
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WILLIAM H. NASH |
Chief-Fourth Battalion |
On the thirtieth of December, 1872, at No. 223 Division Street,
hearing from Widow Rends that her children, Matilda and Abbie, were
cut off from escaped in a room on the first floor, braved death to
rescue them, and, going through fire and smoke to the room, caught
up the children and saved them. |
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THOMAS HENRY |
Assistant foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 6 |
At this fire, at personal risk, rescued Lewis Levy and his son
Charles. |
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JOHN O'BRIEN |
Foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 6 |
At this same fire, rescued Mary Rosenthal, aged twenty. |
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GEORGE W. ERB |
Foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 6 |
Rescued Charles Cohn, who was partly suffocated on the second
floor, by going to the new fire escape. |
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John F. Du Flon |
Fireman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 6. |
Rescued a sick and bed-ridden lad from the second floor. |
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JOSEPH F. McGILL |
Foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 11 |
On the third of March, 1873, was at the fierce fire which broke
out at nos. 35 and 37 Vesey Street. The fire seized on the upper
part of the building, and when Harriet Colgan, from one of the top
windows, shrieked for aid, McGill went up a madder and rescued her
shortly before the floors fell in. |
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THEODORE DAKIN |
Fireman-Engine Co. No. 13 |
On the eighteenth of March, 1873, at No. 94 Green Street, was
severely burned in rescuing a boy, Henry Marschoff, who was cut off
from escape, and was abandoned by his parents. |
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AMBROSE L. AUSTIN AND FRANCIS CAREY |
Foreman-Engine Co. No. 3. |
On the twenty-seventh of March, 1873, at No. 119 Ninth Avenue, in
arousing the inmates, found Elizabeth and Sarah Early, Sarah Murray
and Josephine Welch insensible in a room on the top floor. The
firemen were cut off from escape by the stairs, but they took all
the rescued persons to the street, by getting out of a window and
climbing to an awning, and thence to the street. |
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TERRENCE P. BRENNAN |
Assistant Foreman-Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3 |
On the second of April, 1873, was at No. 126 Front Avenue when
escape for four persons on the upper floor was cut off. Brennan
rescued them from a ladder when they were half suffocated and
resigned to their fate. |
