Insurance Agent Cancels: Benswanger & Hast of Pittsburgh

 

from the American Exchange & Review, November 1900

Note in the ad that Mssrs. Benswanger & Hast are specialists in whisky insurance.  Curious this.  The Whisky Rebellion was fomented in western Pennsylvania by local distillers, many revolutionary war vets, who thought they were being taxed without representation.  I can't imagine the desire for insurance for whisky was a holdover from more than 100 years before.  I wonder why they sold, and people bought, whisky insurance?

BENSWANGER

NOV 3 1899

& HAST

BENSWANGER

NOV 3 1899

& HAST

Insurance Agent Cancels: J. W. Fitzgerald & Company of Little Falls, New York

J. W. FITZGERALD & CO., AGENTS

LITTLE FALLS, N. Y.

JUNE 4 1901

Insurance Agent Cancels: Fred C. Wright of Springfield, Massachusetts

FRED C. WRIGHT

11 APR  1900

Springfield, Mass.

Insurance Agent Cancels: Heeman, Kranz & Company of Toledo, Ohio

from Official Laws Regulating Construction of Buildings, City of Toledo, 1907

Heeman, Kranz & Co.

Mar

2

1901

Toledo, O.

Insurance Agent Cancels: George L. Story of Portland, Oregon

George L. Story

AUG 2 1898

Portland, - Oreg.

George L. Story

NOV  28  1898

Portland, - Oreg.

from the Salem Directory of 1871:

George L. Story was an energetic entrepreneur and by 1898 ran a fire insurance business.

 

Insurance Agent Cancels: Silas Chapman, Jr. of Hartford, Connecticut

from The Hartford Bazar Budget, June 2, 1880

SILAS CHAPMAN, JR.

JAN

31

1899

HARTFORD, CONN.

 

Insurance Agent Cancels: Ed. E. Walker & Company of Covington, Kentucky

from the Covington, Kentucky High School Alumni bulletin 1905

ED. E. WALKER & CO.

DEC

19

1900

 

Insurance Agent Cancels: Frederick K. Gaston of New York, New York

from the Building Trades Employers Association Bulletin, January 1906

FREDERICK K. GASTON

JAN

6

1899

NEW YORK

Insurance Agent Cancels: West Jersey Title and Guaranty Company of Camden, New Jersey

 

West Jersey Title

3/22/1899

& Guaranty Company.

West Jersey Title

1/2/1900

& Guaranty Company.

West Jersey Title

11/15/1900

& Guaranty Company.

Insurance Company Cancels: Hartford Fire Insurance Company

 

Hartford Fire Ins. Co.

Oct 16 1900

CHICAGO

Insurance Agent Cancels: Callender & Company of Peoria, Illinois

from the Bradley Polytechnic yearbook of 1935

CALLENDER & CO.

AUG

6

1900

PEORIA, ILL.

 

CALLENDER & CO.

JAN

23

1900

PEORIA, ILL.

Callender & Co. were agents for the Lincoln Fire Insurance Company.  

Insurance Agent Cancels: L. Burge Hayes of Boston

 

from the Portland Daily Press, May 6, 1898

The Spanish American War was in its early days at the time of this L. Burge Hayes classified ad.  Seems like the firm was capitalizing on fear.  Some must have believed that the Spanish might bombard American cities from their ships?

L. Burge Hayes & Co.

FEB 8 1899

Boston.

L. Burge Hayes & Co.

Feb 6 1899

Boston.

L. Burge Hayes & Co.

DEC 9 1900

Boston. 

Insurance Agent Cancels: G. Ph. Hunkel & Son of Milwaukee

from the American Agency Bulletin, September 1905

G. PH. HUNKEL & SON

DEC

12

1899

MILWAUKEE

 

Insurance Agent Cancels: Phillips & Rebhan of Milwaukee

from the American Agency Bulletin, September 1905

PHILLIPS & REBHAN

MAY

1

1900

MILWAUKEE.

Insurance Company Cancels: Berkshire Life Insurance

 

from The Insurance Monitor, 1904

BERKSHIRE LIFE INS. CO.

DEC

11

1899

Insurance Agent Cancels: Barbee & Castleman of Louisville, Kentucky

from The Insurance Yearbook 1895

 

BARBEE & CASTLEMAN

JAN

6

1900

Insurance Agent Cancels: H. J. Bowell of Merrill, Wisconsin

 

Advert from Wright's Merrill City Directory of 1925

H. J. BOWELL,

DEC

5

1898

MERRILL, WIS.

Insurance Agent Cancels: Ellison, Coolidge & Company of Boston

 

from The Ideal Watertown, February 23, 1898

Ellison, Coolidge & Co.

Dec

8

1898

Ellison, Coolidge & Co.

JAN

2

1899

Insurance Agent Cancels: Thomas B. Knight of Lynn, Massachusetts

From The Parish Notes, St. Stephen's Memorial Church, February 1935

 

Thos. B. Knight,

JUL

7

1899

LYNN, MASS.

Insurance Agent Cancels: Merrill, Dodge & Jackson of Toledo, Ohio

From The American Agency Bulletin, August 1910

 

Merrill, Dodge & Jackson.

1900

Insurance Agent Cancels: Silsbee, Baker & Geer of Lynn, Massachusetts

 

SILSBEE, BAKER & GEER,

OCT

24

1900

LYNN, MASS.