page_title: Anthony Allaire
section_title: Retirement and later years
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony Allaire / Biography / Retirement and later years
caption_attribution_description: English: The gravesite of Anthony Allaire in Woodlawn Cemetery
context_page_description: Anthony J. Allaire was an American firefighter, drillmaster, and military and law enforcement officer. A longtime police inspector for the New York City Police Department, he was responsible for the breakup of numerous street gangs, most notably the Slaughter House Gang and the Dutch Mob, as well as the capture of murderer Daniel McFarland in 1869.
context_section_description: In his later years on the force, he was the official drillmaster for the department and was in charge of police parades. He was also involved in the Freemasons, the Loyal Legion, the Ohio Society of New York, the Association of Exempt Firemen, the Association of the Nineteenth Army Corps and the Noah L. Farnham Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Despite his accomplishments however, he was never able to advance to the rank of police inspector due to physical disability and increasingly poor health. The position of chief police inspector eventually went to Captain Alexander S. Williams and Peter Conlin. On October 7, 1902, after 42 years of service, Allaire was retired on a pension by Police Commissioner John Nelson Partridge after being found unfit for duty by the Board of Surgeons.
  Suffering from Bright's disease during his final year, he fell seriously ill while at a summer resort in central New Jersey. His request to be taken back to his home was granted and, being nearly blind, insisted on dictating his notes to his son-in-law Lester Ketcham as part of his memoirs. Allaire died at his West 91st Street home on August 9, 1903. He was buried at New Rochelle.
  As a result of the construction of I-95, most graves from the Allaire Family Cemetery in New Rochelle were moved to St Paul's Church in New Rochelle in the 1950s.  However, Anthony J. Allaire's grave was relocated to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
caption: The gravesite of Anthony Allaire in Woodlawn Cemetery
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