CHAPTER XIV.

rei'resent.vtive firemen, p.v.sr and present.

Brief Sketchks ok Prominlnt Firemkn—Isa.vc N. M.vrks—Thomas
O'CoxxoR—C.vpt. Wasiilxgtox Irvini; Hodgsox—Charles T. How¬
ard—Leox.vrd   M.   PAxlev—Rknk   H.   Brunet—Alfred   Moultox—

P'REDERICK     .SCIIXEIDLR—p-REDERK K     PiSCHER—J()HN       QUINN—Hl-BERT

X\'.vx—Joiix C. .McLell.vx—P'raxk   P.vrrer.v—Sa.muel  Vosburgh—Dr.
JosKiMi T.  DkGraxge—Hknry L. Fr.vntz—J.vcoii Schoen.

COMPLETE list of the citizens of New Orleans whose service in
the X'olunteer P^ire Department lent dignity to that organiza¬
tion and to the firemen's calling xvould shoxv a surprising array
of names of men who in other departments of civic activity were promi¬
nently identified xvith the clt)'s interests, commercial, official and social.
In the folloxving pages it is possible to record the services not of all, but
of a few xvho may fairly be taken as t)-pes of the grand army of self-
sacrificing defenders of the lives and homes of their felloxv-citizens.

Is.vAc N. Marks,
President of F. C .1. 1855 to i8gi.
It is not too much to say that the guiding spirit of the Firemen's
Charitable Association throughout the most significant crisis of its history
and the period of its greatest usefulness xvas its President, Isaac N.
Alarks. Retiring as he did from activit)- xvhen the Association retired
from control of the Fire Department, and happily still spared to pass
among his fellow-citizens the quiet clays of an honored old age, he re¬
mains, so far as it is possible for one individual, the personal exponent
of the glories and services of the organization whose affairs he guided so
long and so well. The Firemen's Charitable Association was not, it is
true, a close corporation, managed by an oligarchy, even of its best  men