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A centennial history of the Glyndon Volunteer Fire Department, Baltimore County, Maryland.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 janvier 2004
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781681621975
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	13 Mo

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Copyright 2004, Glyndon Volunteer Fire Department
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Library of Congress Control No. 2004109560
ISBN: 978-1-68162-196-8
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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
D EDICATION
C ONGRATULATORY M ESSAGES
Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr
Senator Paul Sarbanes
Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
Maryland House of Delegates
County Executive James T. Smith, Jr., Baltimore County, Maryland
Councilman T. Bryan Mclntire, Baltimore County Council
Chief John J. Hohman, Baltimore County Fire Department
Joel C. McCrea, President, Baltimore County Volunteer Firemen s Association
Terry E. Thompson, President, Maryland State Firemen s Association
P REFACE
H ISTORY OF G LYNDON - F OUNDED 1871
Answering the Call - 1904 - 2004
A PPARATUS N OTEBOOK
O FFICERS AND M EMBERS OF THE G LYNDON V OLUNTEER F IRE D EPARTMENT
O UR L ADIES A UXILIARY
T HE J UNIOR F IRE D EPARTMENT
C ELEBRATING 100 Y EARS OF S ERVICE
I N M EMORIAM
P HOTO A LBUM
100 Y EARS OF S TATISTICS
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
P ATRONS
S PONSORS
I NDEX
D EDICATION
One Hundred Years ago 23 dedicated citizens of the town of Glyndon recognizing the need to protect the community and its citizens from the danger of fire met together and founded the Volunteer 5re Company no. 1 of Glyndon.
For a century, this tradition of service to the community and citizens of glyndon has been continued by the men and women of the Glyndon Uolunteer Fire Department who have given, and continued to give, selflessly of their time and talent to protect their town and their neighbors.
To the Glyndon Volunteers, the men and women who have been Answering the Call with courage and determination for the past one hundred years we dedicate this tribute to their remarkable achievements.
Congratulatory Messages

R OBERT L. E HRLICH , JR. G OVERNOR S TATE OF M ARYLAND

P ALL S ARBANES U NITED S TATES S ENATOR M ARYLAND

CA. D UTCH R UPPERSBERGER M EMBER OF C ONGRESS 2 ND D ISTRICT , M ARYLAND

D AN K. M ORHAIM B OBBY A. Z IRKLN J ON S. C ARDIN M ARYLAND H OUSE OF D ELEGATES

J AMES T. S MITH C OUNTY E XECUTIVE B ALTIMORE C OUNTY , M ARYLAND

T. B RYAN M CINTIRE C OUNCILMAN , T HIRD D ISTRICT B ALTIMORE C OUNTY , M ARYLAND

C HIEF J OHN J. H OHMAN B ALTIMORE C OUNTY F IRE D EPARTMENT

J OEL C. M CCREA , P RESIDENT B ALTIMORE C OUNTY V OLUNTEER F IREMEN S A SSOCIATION

T ERRY E. T HOMPSON , P RESIDENT M ARYLAND S TATE F IREMEN S A SSOCIATION
P REFACE
In this book, the members of the Glyndon Volunteer Fire Department chronicle the courage and sacrifices of the many men and women who have, over the last 100 years, worked and given selflessly of themselves to build an organization dedicated to the protection of their friends and neighbors. It starts with the history of our town and the fire that galvanized the citizens of Glyndon and motivated them to form the Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 of Glyndon.
The story of 100 years of dedication and hard work, beginning with a single piece of apparatus drawn by livery horses and stored in a borrowed shed, and culminating in the plans for our second century is told through the words and deeds of our members and officers. From time to time, over the years, a broader history has impacted the department. Two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, and now September 11, 2001 and the war on terrorism that has come in its wake have had, and continue to have, a significant effect on the department and its members. We have included these events and how they have affected us in our story. A century of fire apparatus, the Ladies Auxiliary, and our Junior Fire Department are all important to the story of Glyndon Volunteer Fire Department and they have their place in this volume. We celebrate our members and our officers, and the pride we all have in our department on these pages.
In a letter received from the late General Douglas MacArthur, he refers to prompt and efficient service and commends the department for prompt civic service . These are the reasons why 23 men met in March of 1904 to provide their neighbors with prompt and efficient service. They saw it as their civic duty. It is the reason why the over 80 men and women of the Glyndon Volunteer Fire Department serve their community today.
In the final analysis, it all comes down to our dedicated people and the generous support of our community, and that s the story we tell here.
Glyndon s History

G LYNDON - F OUNDED 1871
No history of the Glyndon Volunteer Fire Department would be complete without an understanding of the origins of the town of Glyndon. Events in the town s history had a direct impact on the decision by a group of its citizens to organize a volunteer fire company to protect the people and property of the town.
Glyndon celebrated its 100 th anniversary in 1971. The chronicling of the rise of the new town of Glyndon in 1871 is wonderfully detailed in the 100 th anniversary publication by the Glyndon Community Association titled The Glyndon Story 1871 - 1971 by Myrtle S. Eckhardt. The Association has graciously given the Glyndon Volunteer Fire Department permission to use excerpts from this excellent publication to set the scene for the organization of the Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 of Glyndon in 1904.
T HE G LYNDON SITE
The Western Maryland Railroad promoted the early location and growth of the town of Glyndon. After the railroad reached Owings Mills by August of 1850, the plan of General Latrobe, the surveyor, called for its extension through Reisterstown and on to Westminster. However, the Reisterstown people refused to sell the right of way, and the route was changed to come through Gwynnbrook, St. Georges, and the present site of Glyndon to Emory Grove. This was completed in 1860. The railroad reached Westminster on June 15, 1861.
This new route came through an area that was beautiful, with green expanses and tall trees, and with an elevation above sea level of almost 700 feet, making delightful summers and mild winters. The eastern edge of the Glyndon site overlooked Worthington Valley where, prior to 1850, the Worthington, Longnecker, Geist and other families had established large estates. A dirt road from the valley stretched through future Glyndon to connect with the Hanover, Westminster and Baltimore turnpikes, where stagecoach roads had invited greater numbers of people to settle.
P LANS FOR THE T OWN
Prior to 1871, Dr. Charles A. Leas, of Baltimore, had bought a large farm comprising most of the southern half of Glyndon, with the present O Meara property as the nucleus. He had been appointed, in 1854, the first health officer of Baltimore City, and in subsequent years, was sent by the President of the United States as American consul to Sweden, Norway, Madeira, and British Honduras. He now wanted to retire from active city life. A news writer for the Sun of February 13, 1952, states, He soon found that running a farm was not his m tier, so he decided to found a little town, where he could live amongst congenial people of his own tastes and inclinations.
He bought additional land to the north from Robert H. Pennington, employed the Baltimore surveyor, Augustus Bouldin, and planned the town with streets, planting rows of maple trees along them. Mr. George Arnold, who was until his death, the oldest living member in our town and our town historian, sets 1871 as the year this was begun.

Bromley s map of Glyndon from the 1915 Atlas of Baltimore County. (Courtesy of BCPL)
The name of Glyndon does not appear in the 1877 Atlas of Baltimore County, and the station location is called Reisterstown Station. People were not satisfied with this name, for Reisterstown was almost two miles away. Mr. Bouldin suggested to Dr. Leas that the residents of the town place names in a hat and have a public drawing. John M. Hood, president of the Western Maryland Railroad, attended the drawing and a member of his family drew the Scotch name, Glyn, from which the name Glyndon was coined. Both town and railroad station were so-named in 1879, according to the railroad records and to our own historian.

View of Railroad Avenue showing Townsend Hall and Kelly s Blacksmith Shop. (Courtesy of BCPL)

The original Glyndon Railroad Depot built in 1895 and destroyed by fire in J 903. The building was made of Texas marble with a red tile roof. (Courtesy of BCPL)

The present Glyndon Railroad Station built on the site of the original Depot in 1904. The building currently houses the U.S. Post Office for Glyndon. (GVFD Photo)
O THER S MALL B USINESS V ENTURES
Railroad Avenue seems to have been the business section of the town. Next to Townsend Hall in the 1890s, Charles Kelly built the blacksmith shop, with shop in the end next to the hall and a wheelwright shop two stories high at the southern end, operated by Benjamin Stansfield....
The livery stable, conveniently located next to the blacksmith shop, was built by Charles S. Smith in the 1890s....Hanson Rutter took over the livery stable when he purchased the corner house on Chatsworth Avenue. The State Roads building (was) on the site of the old livery stable.
Benjamin Stansfield s sons built there own wheelwright shop on Railroad Avenue between the....(site of the)....State Roads Garage and the old fire engine house....
These short excerpts from the Story of Glyndon by Myrtle S. Eckhardt describes a number of the Glyndon businesses that played an important role in the early history of the Fire Company. The company was organized and met in Townsend Hall. The h