The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-24

at Callowhill street wharf. William Biddle
lived in Front street, above Callowhill. George
Leib was the father of Michael Leib once a
very influential politician. Richard Mason
afterwards became manufactures of fire en-
gines. Martin Nole, Adam Stricken, and Elias
Lewis Triechell were inn-keepers. The COM
pany met for some time at Triechell's tavern,
sign of Noah's Ark, Front and Noble streets.
vIeILANT FIRE COMPANY.
"The original members of the Vigilant Fire
Company were:-Edward Drinler, w. Moulder,
Charles Lyon, Joseph Connell, John Elton, John
Gill, jeremiah Smith, John Bies, Isaac Cath
rail-, Peter Thompson, William Davis, John
Cameron, Martin Ashburn, Nathaniel Brown,
Henry Shute, William Qua, William Barnes,
Joseph Warner, Henry Rigby, Israel Cassell,
Nicholas Hicks, Samuel Robbins, William Will
liams, Samuel Hastings, Bradford Roberts,
James Cassell, William Wayne, Bowyer
Brooke, James Wood, John Cassell, and Jere-
miah Smith. Edward Drinker, who leads off
among the members, was noted among Phila-
delphans as having been born upon the site of
the city upon Dock cresk, in 1880, two years
before the landing of Penn. He was at this
time eighty years old, and lived at the
Drinker House, corner of Front
street and Drinkers alley. William Moul-
der was at one time a schoolmaster
was afterwards justice of the peace. Bowyer
Brooke was a surveyor, related to the Coates
and Brown families of the Northern Liberties.
Peter Thompson, in the year 176O, kept store
at the sign of the Hand and Pen, in Race street.
Nathaniel Brown was q whipmaker, afterwards
q surveyor, and also, during the Revolution,
wagon master, and wagon-major ia the Quar-
termaster's Department. After the Revolution
he kept the Leopard Inn, on Market street,
and, subsequently,, the Hunting of the Fox, on
Arch street, above Sixth. jeremiah Smith kept
the famous tavern on Front street, above Arch,
known as the Queen of Hungary. Charles
Lyon was a merchant. Martin Ashburn kept
the upper ferry at Arch street wharf Abram
Carlisle became member before the Revolution,
and suffered during that contest the fate of
traitor.
KING GEORGE III FIRE COMPANY.
'The King George the Third Fire Company
originally consisted of the following members:
William Fairies, Isaac Coats, Charles Law
renee Conrad Beech, Richard Wood, Joseph
Hill, Jacob Bright, Andrew shaffer, Robert
Elton, Matthias Abel, James Cooper, Thomas
Brookes, Francis Forster, William Bywater,
Christopher Ludwick, George Button, Rudolph
Bonner John West, Jonathan Biles, Griffith
Vaughan, Benjamin Worthington, Robert Tat
nall, Henry Casdorp, John Whiteall, William
Wells, William Palmer, Henry Bunner, Lane
Naylor, David Cawthorn, John M. Mil, John
Browne, and William Salisbury. These were all
respectable business men. Christopher Lud-
wick, a baker during the Revolution, obtained
the soubriquet of Baker General, from his SER
vices in supplying the army with bread
QUEEN CHARLOTTE FIRE COMPANY.
''The Queen Charlotte Fire Company was
originated at meeting held at William Clamp
Co.. u. ~ r 4
John William Hoffman was clerk. The original
members were Thomas Meyer, George Adam
Gaal, Philip Ulrich Casper Graft, Louis Weiss,
Matthew Labolt David Shafer, Jacob Graft,
Jacob Chrystler, Barnard Lawerswyler, Martin
Fisher, Philip viii, Dietrich Rees. The original
number of members was thirty. The company
obtained ladders previous to the year 1869, when
new fire engine was built by Richard Mason.
1t was placed in house on the north side of
Cherry street, between the Lutheran school
| house and Thomas Tuston's, which was east of
Fourth street. The names of the members of
this company are all German, and, from the fact
that they obtained ground adjoining the Luthe-
ran school-house, it is proboble that most of
them were members of Zion or of st. Mchael's
| Lutheran Congregation.
NEPTUNE FIRE COMPANY.
''The Neptune Fire Company was formed at
first meeting noticed was held on Monday, Janu-
ary II, 1774. All the members were present on
that OCCASION to wit:-Andrew Geyer Jacob
Kehmlee, George Forepaugh, Charles Bitters,
| George Vert, Andrew Bachman, Charles Miller,
William Sheaff, Lawrence Sickle Andrew Epple,
George Honey, Jr., Hilary Baker, Jr. At the
time of the breaking out of the Revolutionary
war, the company had no engine, the members
being supplied with buckets"
THE GERMANTowN FIRE DEPARTMENT.
SIN January, 1904 citizens of Germantown
held meeting at the Town Hall, in order to
consult together in regard to the means of pro-
tecting themselves from the ravages of fire.
| They were situated at a considerable distance
from the fire apparatus of Philadelphia, and the
roads at the time were frequently so bad
that no assistance could have been derived from
the city fire companies. 1t was therefore re-
solved to form three separate fire divisions in
Germantown and its neighborhood, and the
! fire companies which were formed were called
the Fellowship, of the Upper ward; Fellowship,
of the Middle ward and Fellowship, of the
Lower ward. Subscriptions were taken up
to purchase apparatus, and money enough was
| collected to send to England for three hand fire
engines, but by some misfortune the order was
not fully completed. When the engines ar
rived, one was sent to Germantown; but of two
Others one went to Bethlehem and the other to
! Frankford. The companies afterwards received
! their apparatus, however. In subsequent years,
] the names of the three companies were changed
as follows-That of the Upper ward, instituted
March l. 1864, was named the Franklin Fire
Company; that of the Middle ward instituted
/ l. II.