"Duty is Our Pride"
On June 7th, 1886 ten men met in the quarter of the F.J. Silsby Hose Co., which had been disbanded. The hose house was located on Bridge St. at the present site of the Greene County Court House. It was decided to form a new hose company and to name the company in honor of Austin Melvin Osborn, a prominent State Supreme Court Justice at the time. Clarence Deed was elected Foreman and the new company manned the two wheeled hand-drawn hose cart which had been used by Silsby Co. The past station of the company, located on Main St. across from the Court House, was built in 1904. The company was incorporated on May 20th of 1909. For 117 years, the members of A.M. Osborn Hose Co. served the community with pride and distinction.