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Union Red Rover Fire Company No. 1 (1861)

Transcribed August 23, 2006.

Bay City Press and Times - July 19, 1861

Union Red Rover Fire Company No. 1.
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At the last meeting of the Common Council the following named citizens were appointed, by that body, firemen of Bay City:

Albert Miller, Luther Beckwith, James W. Watson, Thomas. C. Grier, P. S. Heisordt, Richard Schuerman, J. N. Zehner, J. N. Colburn, John McEwan, C. E. Jennison, Archibald McDonnell, Charles Merrill, R. Rabidoue, George Morton, Thomas Fox, Jas. G. Birney, F. A. Martin, Franz Hoffman, John Hogan, Robert Gilmore, B. Whitthauer, W. A. Bryce, Edward Campbell, Geo. C. Fray, A. S. Munger, Edwin Park, C. D. Cook, C. E. Lewis, Hiel Rogers, Oscar Cone,

J. W. Sweet, J. F. Cottrell, Edward Vosburgh, Wm. Burton, John Phillips, James Davidson, Wm. Spears, Chas. O. Bryce, Geo. Lewis, Frank Staddleman, W. C. Ryan, H. M. Bradley, Joseph Stregl, A. Kaiser, Henry Young, H. H. Alvord, Leonard Heiman, Alexander McKoy, Henry Jewell, Freeman Muntour, Simon Zerves, J S. Judson, Henry Wilder, L. W. Field, Frank White, Daniel Carpenter, Henry Hess, C. A. Close, John Lind, R. W. Cummings,

Pursuant to notice the above named persons met at the engine house on Thursday evening last, and organized a fire company, by adopting a constitution, and nominating the following named gentlemen to be appointed by the Common Council as the officers of the company: W. C. Ryan, Foreman; Thomas Fox, First Assistant; John Hogan, Second Assistant; F. A. Martin, Clerk; Charles Sheuerman, Treasurer; Alexander McCoy, Steward. After the appointment of committees to report by-laws and a uniform for the company, the meeting adjourned until Friday evening, the 26th inst.

The new engine Red Rover, which the company is to have, arrived by the steamer Huron, on Wednesday last. It appears to be a first-rate one. Its powers are to be fully tested in a few days, when we shall be able to give further information with regard to it.

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The Common Council have appointed H. M. Bradley, Esg., Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of Bay City, and Mr. Charles Merrill, Assistant Chief Engineer. Both good appointments.

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The Fourth in Williams.
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The celebration of the Fourth in the township of Williams passed off very pleasantly, was we learn from one who was present. The reading of the Declaration of Independence, reading of the Constitution, and an oration with music, the firing of the guns, a picnic dinner, and a dance in the evening, were the principal features of the celebration. And, as a practical demonstration that the spirit of Union has in no wise gone out from the hearts of the good people of Williams, Mr. Samuel Rowden and Miss Prudence Myers were, on the morning of the 5th, united in marriage -- at the present time a most appropriate closing ceremony to such an occassion. In this union the heresy of secession will find no favor. We wish the parties much joy.