Ex-Chief J. T. O'Donnell Dead
James T. O’Donnell, who retired a little over a year ago as Chief of the Salvage Corps, St. Louis, Mo., died at the age of sixty-seven, while under treatment for a complication of diseases.
Chief O’Donnell was born in St. Louis, Mo., on August 27, 1872. He entered the fire service in 1896 and was promoted to Lietuenant five years later. He resigned from service June 15, 1903, to enter the St. Louis Fire Prevention Bureau as an Inspector. He was appointed Chief of the Underwriters Salvage Corps in 1910. He retired from active duty on a pension, after having served as Chief for twenty-eight years.
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