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| Ladies Auxiliary - In 1939 the Ladies Auxiliary of the Demarest Volunteer Fire Association was founded by Mrs. Arthur Griffin with fifteen charter members. The First officers of the Auxiliary were: Mrs. A Griffin as president, Mrs. L. Folgosi as Secretary and Mrs. R. Fraser as Treasurer. Fire Association- The Demarest Volunteer Fire Assn was organized on November 13, 1894 when forty-six men met in the Waiting Room of the Railroad Depot and volunteered their services, and elected temporary officers. On December 17, 1894 the Association was officially incorporated with Mr. E. W. Wakelee serving as Attorney and the first fifteen men to volunteer their services signing the articles of incorporation. It is interesting to note that the Fire Department is actually nine years older then the borough of Demarest. Mr. Demarest served the Dept as chief for the first 13 years of its existence and upon is retirement was presented with a silver loving cup by the members in appreciation for his service. At this same meeting it was decided to hold all future meetings in the local Barber Shop. Later in 1895 the first apparatus A Rumsey Truck with Bridgeport Extinguishers was purchased at a cost of $450.00 and work was started on the firehouse, a one story building on the site where the present fire house is located, a lot donated by Mr. J. W. Z. Demarest. An early member of the Department Mr. J.E Collins very kindly provided the services of his team of horses to pull the fire apparatus whenever the alarm sounded. Original Members: Paul Ruhl George Florence Reginald Stelfox Ralph Sairs W.E Demarest E.P Underwood C.W Crowe Henry Tamm I Tessler A.H Priest W. Hardie S. Bartlett George Johnson C.A Park C. Hoammond H Meyerhoff Albert Bishop Frank Achilles John Sair Tyler Austin Mr. Begg Chauncey Haring F. Dietrichs Horace Miller J. Wakelee Edward Culligan Philipp Schneider J. H. Z Demarest J. Helt A. L. White Edward Achilles Everard Stelfox H. Wisdon Harry Miller Seth Wakeley Fred Pietz George Tooker Ernst Konafe H. Steele S. Taggart H. B. Thomas A. C. Cooper R. Wheeler Jacob Muller J. Laufer Taken from Original Transcripts from the Demarest Fire Department. |