Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Fire Department Officers

New York, 1895

The election for officers of the Jamaica fire department was held Tuesday evening with the following results: W. Augustus Shipley, chief; Elkanah Barto, assistant chief; John A. Powell, clerk; James A. Scott, treasurer; Jacob Shipley, William M. Baylis and S. H. Henderson, wardens. There was but one ticket.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 12.

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