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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, chapter 1 (search)
g back yard. In August the selectmen appointed the foremen and engineers, and among them we find the names of David A. Sanborn, William Bonner, Daniel Stone, Robert Vinal, and Robert Sanborn. The salary of the firemen, all volunteers, was $1.50 per annum, paid by abatement of the poll-tax. In 1840 Robert A. Vinal was clerk and treasurer. In 1849 a Hanneman tub was purchased by the town, and the department was organized with Nathan Tufts as its first chief engineer. He was followed by Abram Welch, Robert A. Vinal, and John Runey. A small bell was hung in the cupola of the engine house. For years, even after the Somerville company was organized, an alarm of fire could be rung only by means of this bell. For years, also, according to a law then in force, every man in town was required to hang two buckets, usually of leather and painted, in his front hall, and when an alarm of fire was sounded it was his duty to seize those buckets, hurry to the fire, and range in line with oth
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
onathan, 53. Wakefield, Mass., 22. Walker, Leonard, 57. Walnut Hill, 15. Walnut Hill School, The, 41-48. Walnut Street, 6, 11, 14, 16, 17, 56. Waltham, Mass., 2, 3. War Department, 64. Warren Avenue, 13, 14. Warren, Mary, 46. Warren School, Charlestown, Mass., 24. Washington, D. C., 41. Washington, George, 26, 52, 54, 69, 77. Washington Street, 5, 6, 14, 16, 20. Waters, Elizabeth A., 20, 21. Watertown, Mass., 1, 2, 4, 56. Wayland, Mass., 46. Weitzel, —, 65, 66. Welch, Abram, 14. Wellington Bridge, 50. Wellington, Chary, 3. Wellington, Thomas, 3. Westboro, Mass., 45. West Cambridge Road School, 44. West Cambridge, Mass., 18, 19, 43, 45, 46, 48. Western Electric Company of Chicago, 21. West Medford, Mass., 60. Webster Avenue, 15. Weymouth, Mass., 49. what Somerville Needs, 61. Wheeler, —, 16. White, Hannah, 53. White, John, 53. White, Mercy, 53. White, Lieutenant, Nicholas, 53. Whitman, Edmund B., 56. Whitman, Ensign, John, 53. Whitri