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DescriptionSamuel Becket Boyd II (1865-1929) and Henry Clemons Bunker (1856-1938) and George Washington Olvany (1876-1952) and George Oscar Luce (1876-1922) and George Kelly on September 5, 1913.jpg	English: Bain News Service,, publisher. Samuel Becket Boyd II, George Washington Olvanny, Kelly, Henry Clemons Bunker, and George O. Luce in 1913 in New York City. They may have been meeting for the dedication of the Firemen's Memorial in Riverside Park in Manhattan in New York City on September 5, 1913. Note that they have shared pins and pennants with each other. 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.14085 Call Number: LC-B2- 2811-6
Date	19 November 2009 (original upload date)
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Author	The original uploader was Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at English Wikipedia.

Caption

Samuel Becket Boyd II (1865-1929) and Henry Clemons Bunker (1856-1938) and George Washington Olvany (1876-1952) and George Oscar Luce (1876-1922) and George Kelly at the Firemen's Memorial in Riverside Park in Manhattan in New York City on September 5, 1913.

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People

• Samuel Becket Boyd II (1865-1929) was the fire chief of Knoxville, Tennessee who died of a heart attack in the line of duty in 1929.
• Henry Clemons Bunker (1856-1938) was the fire chief of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1912 to 1916
• George Washington Olvany (1876-1952) was the deputy fire chief of New York City, New York
• George Oscar Luce (1876-1922) was the fire chief of Ilion, New York in 1918. In the image he is incorrectly identified as being from Knoxville, Tennessee, but the fire chief of Knoxville is already identified.
• George Kelly (fireman) of Bismarck, North Dakota

George Washington Olvany (1876-1952)

He was the deputy New York City Fire Commissioner, and leader of Tammany Hall.^[1] He resigned from Tammany Hall in 1929.^[2]

Samuel Becket Boyd II (1865-1929)

He was born on March 20, 1865 in Abingdon, Virginia to Samuel Becket Boyd I (1828-1890) and Isabella Reed (1831-1907).^[3][4] He married Julia Harrison (1881-1957) around 1852. He joined the fire department in 1900.^[3] He died on March 29, 1929 of a heart attack in Knoxville, Tennessee after a fire while in route to the hospital.^[3] He was buried in the Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.

George Oscar Luce (1876-1922)

George received his basic education in the Ilion schools, where he excelled in tool making. This landed him a job at the Remington Arms Company where he worked at this trade. His father had opened and operated a wholesale liquor establlishment,and at the time of his father's passing he gave up his job at Remington to take over the business, as the manager. He held this position until 1918 when he became the elected fire chief of Ilion. He had always been interested and involved in fire fighting. While at Remington he was the chief of the fire brigade. He would remain with the fire department the rest of his life, belonging to numerous fire associations, such as the New York State Fire Chief's Association and the International Fire Chief's Association. He was active in the Catholic church, the Elks #1444 and Nikomas Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men at Ilion.

Henry Clemons Bunker (1856-1938)

He was the fire chief of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1912 to 1916.

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Licensing

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• 2009-11-19 21:35 Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 1024×749× (140499 bytes) Bain News Service,, publisher. Boyd, [[George Washington Olvanny]], Kelly, Bunker, & Luce [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives o