ozma914 | The Firefighter List (Reply)

I turned in the list of Albion firefighters from throughout our 225 (or so) year history … or at least, all the names I could find after a fairly exhaustive search. They’re to go on a plaque that will be displayed at the fire station.

I came up with 197 firefighters. I’m sure there are more, but it’s become a game of diminishing returns—at the moment I just don’t have time to pour over microfilms of 100 year old newspapers in the hopes of stumbling across one name (although that does sound kind of fun. I’m strange). A wintertime project maybe, depending on how my writing time goes. I hope there will be some light bulb moments out there, and more people will send names in.

Meanwhile, I also compiled AFD fire chiefs, and even managed to fill in some holes that were in my original list, published in Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights. Here’s what I have:

ALBION, INDIANA FIRE CHIEFS

1887-1888 A.J. Denlar

1888-1894 William E. Worden

1895-1997 ?

1898 J.O. Russell Jr.

1899-1903 ?

1904 Edward A. Kunkle

1905-1912 ?

1913-1916 Charles Callahan (resigned 5/1/16)

1916-1930 John Gatwood (nomination approved 6/5/16)

1930-1934 ?

1935-1952 Harry Campbell