Interestingly this is how it started out here. You bought fire insurance and were protected by a fire company. I want to say it was one of Franklin’s things that established the first public fire company in Philadelphia, but this is a forum so if I’m wrong I know I’ll be corrected!
We still have a lot of groups, at least in the northeast, that refer to themselves as companies, though it’s used more like an army company or battalion and less like a for-profit endeavor.
Interestingly this is how it started out here. You bought fire insurance and were protected by a fire company. I want to say it was one of Franklin’s things that established the first public fire company in Philadelphia, but this is a forum so if I’m wrong I know I’ll be corrected!
We still have a lot of groups, at least in the northeast, that refer to themselves as companies, though it’s used more like an army company or battalion and less like a for-profit endeavor.