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NEWTON VETERAN ASSOCIATION.<br />

OSTON organized the first Veteran<br />

Firemen's Association in New England,<br />

and the second in this country,<br />

April 9, 1878.<br />

Eleven years later,<br />

December 11, 1880, the <strong>Newton</strong> Association was<br />

organized at Allen's school building, West <strong>Newton</strong>.<br />

Preliminary meetings were held November<br />

8th and 29th, and December 6th, when<br />

rallying committees were appointed, and membership<br />

solicited.<br />

The first board of officers<br />

consisted of ex-Chief E. M. Lucas, president;<br />

ex-Chief W. Parker Leavitt, vice-president; C.<br />

T. Bartlett, secretary; A. J. Grover, treasurer;<br />

J. Q. A. Hawkes, steward. Directors, R. J.<br />

Morrisey, Ward 1; H. N. Hyde, Ward 2; C.<br />

H. Jennison, Ward 3; F. B. Reed, Ward 4; J.<br />

E. Trowbridge, Ward 5; C. D. Bartlett, Ward 6;<br />

and F. A. Barrows, Ward 7.<br />

Its first gathering of a social nature<br />

was<br />

April 25, 1890, when a bean-supper was provided<br />

at Knights of Honor hall, with ex-Chief John S.<br />

Damrell of Boston and other prominent members<br />

of the Veteran Association of that citv as<br />

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guests.

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