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Union Fire Company

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Armitt, Franklin, Powell, Shippen and 2 others
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  • Samuel Powell, "Rich Carpenter" of Philadelphia (1673 - 1756)
    Born: c. 1673, Died: 1756 Biography from the American Architects and Buildings database Samuel Powell came to Philadelphia as a child in 1685 and was probably apprenticed to his uncle John Parsons, car...
  • Charles Willing, Mayor of Philadelphia (1710 - 1754)
    Willing (May 18, 1710, Bristol, England – November 30, 1754, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a successful Philadelphia merchant, trader and politician; twice he served as Mayor of Philadelphia, from 17...
  • Edward Shippen, Mayor of Philadelphia (1703 - 1781)
    He was not the first mayor of Philadelphia. His grandfather 1639-1712 (same name) was the first mayor. Edward Shippen (Boston, Massachusetts, July 9, 1703 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1781)...
  • Mayor Benjamin Shoemaker (1704 - 1767)
    Benjamin Shoemaker (3 August 1704 in Germantown, Philadelphia – c.1767 in Philadelphia) was a colonial Pennsylvania Quaker, merchant, and politician. He served as mayor of Philadelphia in 1743, 1752, a...
  • Stephen Armitt (1705 - 1751)
    Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy : Dec 10 2019, 2:56:54 UTC

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

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