The charter membership of the Freedom Township Volunteer Fire Company included President Fred Snyder; 1st Vice President Raymond Snowberger; 2nd Vice President William Gates; Secretary Charles Fether; Assistant Secretary Harold Wineland; Treasurer Chauncey Claar; Financial Secretary Ambrose Walls; Fire Chief Ira Claar; 1st Assistant Orville Snowberger; 2nd Assistant Calvin Flaugh, Jr.; 3rd Assistant Orville Claar; 4th Assistant Roger Snowberger; trustees Matthew Sell, Charles Ayle, Pat Hazenstab, James Finnegan, W.W. Wertman, and William Dibert; and members Luther Eckard, Clarence Claar, Chester Dick, Russell Delozier, Charles Lingenfelter, George Conrad, Sheldon Helsel, William Snyder, James Aungst, Calvin Flaugh, Sr., G.A. Showalter, Frank Langham, David Dodson, John Claar, Chet Hammel, Sylvester Bender, Dan Snyder, and Robert Burk.