OUR FlREMEN : THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE 

BROOKLYN   FIRE   DEPARTMENT


PREFACE

	"THE story of the Brooklyn Fire Department is a part of the municipal history of 
Brooklyn. But little more than one hundred years after its settlement, a Volunteer 
Fire Company came into existence, and the evolution of the Fire Department from this 
primitive beginning to the perfected organism of today, has been coincident with the 
development of the city from a Colonial hamlet to the proud position it now occupies 
among the cities of the United States.

	This work has been prepared in full sense of the scope, dignity and importance of such 
an undertaking. Original sources have been drawn upon wherever possible and no effort of 
verification has been spared. Such authorities as were accessible have been used with discretion, 
but the history is principally contemporaneous, and its narrative founded upon facts gathered 
by conscientious research, will be found as novel and engrossing as it is authentic. 
	
	Wonderful, in truth, is the story of continuous energy, skill and devotion on the part of 
the Department, of unremittent public spirit and appreciation on the part of the people, and 
of final achievement which has placed the organization in the first rank and justified the 
honest pride of the citizens of Brooklyn.    
                             
	Thanks are due to all engaged in this production, and to many prominent among their 
fellow-citizens for the constant and cordial cooperation they have given in the preparation 
of this work. Without such generous aid the difficulties would have been almost insurmountable, 
and the results far less satisfactory and complete.   
           
	" OUR FIREMEN " is presented with considerable confidence, as an accurate and comprehensive 
history, in the hope that it will be found to be such by those who have occasion to refer to it, 
as well as that the reader will appreciate the labor and difficulties involved in producing 
such a work. 

BROOKLYN, 1892.                                                      



Transcribed for the Brooklyn Pages by Mimi Stevens
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