Union Fire Company, sometimes called Benjamin Franklin's Bucket Brigade, was a volunteer fire department formed in Philadelphia in 1736 with the assistance of Benjamin Franklin. The first fire fighting organization in Philadelphia, though followed within the year by the Fellowship Fire Company. The fire company was formed on 7 December, 1736 after a series of publications in the Pennsylvania Gazette by Franklin and others pointing out the need for more effective handling of fires in Philadelphia and remained active until approximately 1820.

List of the original Union Fire Company volunteers

• Joseph Paphall
• Samuel Coates
• John Armitt
• William Rawle
• Benjamin Shoemaker
• Hugh Roberts
• Benjamin Franklin
• Philip Syng
• William Parsons
• Richard Sewell
• James Morris
• Stephen Armitt
• Thomas Hatton
• Edward Roberts
• William Plumsted
• John Dillwyn
• William Cooper
• Edward Shippen
• Lloyd Zachery
• Samuel Powell
• Thomas Lloyd
• George Emlin
• Charles Willing
• Thomas Lawrence
• William Bell
• Joseph Turner

External links

• History.com - Roster From Ben Franklin's Fire Department Found