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Hiram Fisher Silver Medal. 



Jesse Eldridge " 



Moses Hamilton ........ " 



Theophilus Key " 



John Hall " 



Henry Young " 



Mel tiah Fisher* " 



Alexander Fanning " 



Joseph P. Gardner " 



Isaac Hamblen " 



Geo. A. Yeeder ....... " 



Henry C. Coffin " 



Wm. E. Bates " 



James A. Holmes " 



Stephen Key . . . . . . c " 



Alexander B. Dunham has been seven times re- 

 warded by the Humane Society, the reward in each case 

 being in the form of money. A young lad named Horace 

 Cook received a medal from the Humane Society for 

 going down into a cistern, every man refusing, and 

 securing a rope around Mr. George E. Mooers, who 

 had gone into the cistern to do some soldering and had 

 become insensible from the fumes of burning char- 

 coal. 



Fanning, Gardner, Hamblen, Yeeder, Coffin, Bates, 

 Holmes, and Stephen Key, mentioned above, not only 

 received medals and $10 each, but $450 was presented 

 them by a number of citizens. This was for their 

 heroic efforts in rescuing the crew of the schooner 

 u Mary Anna," Capt. Lennan, on the 4th of February, 

 1871. Edward Everett Hale, coming here some time 



* Before his medal reached him, Mr. Fisher lost his life in 

 attempting to reach a vessel requiring a pilot. 



