Hamilton Salisbury White Memorial - Syracuse, NY - Firefighter Memorials on Waymarking.com

Hamilton Salisbury White was an 1877 graduate of Cornell University. He was well-to-do citizen with an interested in fire fighting. He bought a chemical engine from the city and hired twelve men to act as his firefighting company. The City of Syracuse made him third assistant fire chief; but he would not accept a salary. He died while fighting a fire at the Mowry Hotel on March 13, 1898.

A monument was erected in his honor in 1905, a granite exedra with three bronze sculptures by Gail Sherman of Syracuse, a pupil of Augustus St. Gaudens. At the apex of the monument is a bust of Hamilton Salisbury White. Below is the inscription HAMILTON SALISBURY WHITE. Below and on either side of the central granite block ate two figures. On the viewers left is a seated firefighter. He holds a helmet in his lap and has his coat hung over his shoulders. The other side has the figure of a woman in a long period dress holding a child.

Between the figures is the inscription:

BORN SYRACUSE DECEMBER 21 1853 WHO
HAVING DEVOTED HIMSELF DURING MANY
YEARS TO SAVING THE LIVES AND PROPERTY
OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS FROM LOSS BY FIRE
AT LAST ON MARCH 13, 1899 GAVE HIS LIFE
IN THE SAME CAUSE CITIZENS OF SYRACUSE
WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE CREED
OR PARTY HAVE ERECTED THIS MONUMENT
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT
A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

Memorial Website: [Web Link] Physical address: Firefighters Memorial Park South State Dtreet Syracuse, NY United States

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