Past Chiefs                              

Below is a list of the past chiefs of the City of Rye Fire Department.  The list is from 1891 to the present and the list is only of those who served as Chief of the Department.   The City has a chief of the department as well as a 1st and 2nd assistant chief who are all voted in by the volunteer members of the department at the annual meeting in April and are then approved by the city council. 

1891- Jacob Werner                               1956- Emil Palumbo               2008- George Hogben

1896- Theodore Fremd                            1958- Harold Balls                  2010- George Hogben

1897- Jacob Werner                           1960- Harry Mooney               2012- Michael Taylor

1901- Samuel Graham                     1962- Bernard Ball                  2014- Peter Cotter

1911- James D. Halstead                  1964- George Graham            2016- Michael Billington

1913- Ernest  Ellsworth                    1966- Robert E. Wolfe

1915- William H.B. Halahan            1968- William J. Elmore

1917- George B. Fleming                 1970- George Kirby

1919- Edwin C. Thomas                   1972- Edwin Pickard

1921- Frank Lowenstine                   1974- Francis J Quirk

1924- James Ferris                            1976- William McColl

1926- H. Fenton Heil                         1978- Walter Roode

1928- J. Edward Odell                        1980- Guy Elmore

1930- J. Fred Langeloh                      1982- Kenneth Dahlgren

1932- John Fremd                              1984- Walter Roode

1934- Charles Costello                       1986- Vincent Slater

1936- George M. Langeloh                1988- Raymond Jimolka

1938- Robert Mullins                         1990- Wayne Elmore

1940- Samuel T. Balls                        1992- George Ballantoni

1942- Edward P. Dempsey                 1994- Peter Cotter

1944- William Harvey                        1996- Vincent Ballantoni

1946- Fred Henne                               1998- George Ballantoni

1948- Everett Ferris                            2000- Walter Roode

1950-Karl Benson                               2002- George Hogben

1952- Cornelius Ball                           2004- Peter Cotter

1954- Cornelius Falch                         2006- John Wickham