Excerpt from Reminiscences of Past Members of the Worcester Fire Society: In an Address by Hon. Benjamin Franklin Thomas, at the Annual Meeting in January, 1872; And Continued in an Address at the Quarterly Meeting in April, 1874

The Worcester Fire Society was organized in January, 1793. Its founders, being influenced, says the preamble to the By-Laws, "by a sense of social duty," formed themselves into a Society for the more effectual assistance of each other and of their townsmen, in times of danger from fire. The original members were:

Joseph Allen; John Nazeo; Leonaed Worcester; Ezra Waldo Weld; John Geeen; Samuel Beazee; Thomas Payson; Edward Bangs; William Sevee; Theophilus Wheeler; Olivee Fiske; John Paine; Samuel Allen; Stephen Salisbury; Charles Chandler; Abraham Lincoln; Daniel Waldo, Jr.

To these were added, after the organization at the first meeting:

John Stanton; Isaiah Thomas; Nathaniel Paine; Elijah Dix; Samuel Chandler

Reminiscences of these twenty-two original associates, given by the late Governor Levi Lincoln, in April, 1862, and of the next fifteen members by Hon. Isaac Davis, in January, 1870, were published in the latter year.

In the present publication will be found biographical sketches of the twenty-nine members succeeding, bringing the reminiscences down to the oldest member of the society now living. The first fourteen were prepared by Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas, an active member of the society from July, 1839, to July, 1866, and were read at the annual meeting, in January, 1872.

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