The Washington Fire Company Records contain the eleven articles and a list of members for the Washington Fire Company of Lancaster in 1820, a minute book for 1857-1879, constitution and by-laws printed in 1857, and an undated account sheet.
Admin/Biographical History
The Washington Fire Company was organized in 1820 at the home of John Landis. (Ellis and Evans, History of Lancaster County, pp. 389-390)
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Signers of petition: Jacob Fordney, Jacob L. Hershey, [signature in German], Henry Imhoff, D. S. Bare, John Smith, J. H. Kurtz, Tobias M. Miller, Philip Brehm, Daniel Grabill Jr., Andrew Hershey, Samuel Parker.
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Signers of petition: Henry Imhoff, Samuel Parker, John Stauffer, Tobias M. Miller, John Hoffman, D. S. Bare, Jacob Fordney, Isaac Evans, Joseph Kinsch, Henry M. Reigart, Jacob L. Hershey, Andrew L. Hershey, John L. Hershey.
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Signers of petition: Samuel Parker, Tobias M. Miller, Peter Swar, Joseph Bowman, Adam Reigart, John Stauffer, Isaac Evans, Andrew [Holtsworth], Jacob L. Hershey, John Hoffman, Andrew Hershey, John L. Hershey, Henry M. Reigart, Henry Imhoff.
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Signers of petition: J. H. Kurtz, Martin B. Peifer, David Gottshall, Robert Beard, Jacob Zarfess, [signature in German], Henry M. Reigart, Thomas Grosh, Philip Brehm, Jacob Workman, Isaac Kauffman, John A. Lutz, John Dunkel, Jacob S. Kauffman, Jacob Schwar, John McGovern, John Kauffman, John Minnick, Philip Hottenstein, Daniel Hoffman, Daniel Kapp, Jacob L. Hershey, Benjamin Workman, Michael Gochnauer, John Hernly, Joseph Kinsch, Henry Kauffman, Tobias M. Miller, Samuel Parker, [signature in German], Jacob Forney, Daniel Grabill, John K. Landis, John Johns, John Johns Jr., Emanuel Shober, Francis Ruth, Henry M. Bear, Henry Hottenstein, John Stauffer, John Gochnauer, Andrew Kauffman, John S. Hershey, Reuben Bowman.
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Signers of petition: Daniel Grabill, John Hoffman, [signature in German], Tobias M. Miller, Jacob Fordney, Andrew Kauffman, John Stauffer, J. H. Kurtz, Henry Imhoff, [signature in German], Jacob [Zarfess], Jacob L. Hershey.
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