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The Demarest Ladies Auxiliary 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 his retirement was presented with a silver loving cup by the
members in appreciation for his service. At this same meeting it was
decided that all future meetings were to be held 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. 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:
Edward Achilles
Frank Achilles
Tyler Austin
S. Bartlett
Mr. Begg
Albert Bishop
A. C. Cooper
C.W Crowe
Edward Culligan
J. H. Z Demarest
W.E Demarest
F. Dietrichs
George Florence
W. Hardie
Chauncey Haring
J. Helt
C. Hoammond
Ernst Konafe
George Johnson
J. Laufer
H Meyerhoff
Harry Miller
Horace Miller
Jacob Muller
C.A Park
Fred Pietz
A.H Priest
Paul Ruhl
John Sair
Ralph Sairs
Philipp Schneider
H. Steele
Everard Stelfox
Reginald Stelfox
Henry Tamm
S. Taggart
I Tessler
H. B. Thomas
George Tooker
E.P Underwood
J. Wakelee
Seth Wakeley
R. Wheeler
L. White
H. Wisdon