Yew Park Hose Team

(Salem Fire Department)

Yew park hose team was Salem’s last volunteer engine company, and the last fire company to operate the Hunneman human-powered fire engine. In the picture above a single firefighter is standing in front of a large wheel of the hose cart. To the right of the hose cart is a line of men standing in front of the fire engine; above a row of boys is sitting on the engine’s suction hose that is nested above the engine.

Formed February 11, 1901 Yew Park Hose Team worked under the direction of the Salem Fire Department. All official records of Yew Park Hose Team have been lost or are held in private collections. The date Yew Park Hose Team ceased operations is not known at this time. Listed below are the personnel involved with Yew Park Hose Team from 1902 to 1904.

Company Officers (1902 and 1903):

Foreman……………..William Sigmund

First Assistant………Chester Mee

Second Assistant…..G. H. Deacon

President……………..George Griswold

Secretary……………..A. F. McAtee

Treasurer…………….W. C. Hubbard

Company Officers (1904):

Foreman……………..C. J. Howe

First Assistant………Chester Mee

Second Assistant….G. H. Deacon

President…………….William Sigmund

Secretary…………….Roy Bently

Treasurer…………….W. C. Hubbard

Active Members (1904):

  • Roy Bailey
  • Lute Bart
  • Roy Bentley
  • O. E. Bowers
  • F. G. Bowersox
  • O. L. Darling
  • G. H. Deacon
  • F. A. Erixson
  • R. P. Farnell
  • J. C. Goodale Jr.
  • C. J. Howe
  • Ed. Lemmon
  • Henry McDowell
  • Walter McGee
  • Chester Mee
  • W. A. Moores
  • C. L. Rogers
  • Edward Sauter
  • George C. Schaum
  • Joseph Shedak
  • William Sheridan
  • William Sigmund
  • Homer J. Smith
  • Chester Van Fleet
  • Harry West
  • R.A. Wormworth
  • Sam Wright

Honorary Members (1904):

  • J. S. Graham
  • George Griswold
  • W. C. Hubbard
  • A. F. McAtee
  • J. C. Shultz
  • G. Stolz

Researched and written by Larry Blumenstein

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Bibliography:

Salem Fire Department 1857-1904, Published in the interest of The Relief Fund, Statesman Job Office

History of the Salem, Oregon Fire Department: the volunteer era 1857 to 1893, Wilkerson

This article originally appeared on the original Salem Online History site and has not been updated since 2006.