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Metadata
Title |
1936 article about 1872 Washington Hook & Ladder Co. |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Catalog Number |
2020.FIC.0989 |
People |
Ballow, Henry Banks, Absolum Barnett, William W. Barton, W. H. Bassett, Mitchel Brown, Abraham Brown, Richard Brown, William E. Butler, W. S. Colbert, Charles G. Creager, Charles Creager, Nicholas Duncan, Frank Ellis, William Parmenas Faust, Joseph Feagans, Charles C. Fromme, Henry F. Graves, A. C. Gubelmann, Arnold Hiers, Joseph D. Hite, Charles W. Johnson, Anson B. Kendall, Asberry Kilgore, Benjamin Franklin Kilgore, Joseph D. McCormick, Seth R. McGuire, James McPherson, Solomon L. Mulholland, William R. Myers, Jacob B. Quales, John Rubey, James Spink, B. A. Thorpe, James White, J. M. Williamson, Andrew Wood, Enoch |
Date |
1936 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper clipping from the August 18, 1936 edition of The Democrat published in Washington, Indiana. One article reports that Joe D. Kilgore of Dayton, Ohio presented to Washington's Mayor S. L. McPherson the original roster of the 33 men who served in the Hook and Ladder Company, a Washington fire fighting group organized in June 1872. The second article states the temperature in Washington on August 18, 1936 "soared to 107 degrees" according to C. C. Feagans, a weather observer in Washington. |
Search Terms |
City of Washington Hook and Ladder Company |