Insurance Agent Cancels: R. A. Travis & Company, Tarentum, Pennsylvania

R. R. TRAVIS & CO.

OCT

6

1898

TARENTUM, PA.

Scan of a Bob Patetta stamp, originally posted on this site in 2011.

1940 Calendar cover 

Happy Leap Day!

Insurance Agent Cancels: Davant & Company of Savannah, Georgia

DAVANT & CO.

JUN

1

1901

Savannah's The Searchlight newspaper from January 5, 1907 with Richard J. Davant of Davant & Company listed as an endorsed candidate for city Alderman.  The Searchlight was published by the Democratic League and was overtly political.

 

Insurance Agent Cancels: Train & Harty of Savannah, Georgia

TRAIN & HARTY

OCT

4

1900

Savannah, Ga.

The 1903 obituary of Joseph E. Harty of the firm Train & Harty as reported in the national insurance journal The Chronicle in April, 1903.

Insurance Agent Cancels: J. B. & J. M. Turnbull of Utica, New York

 

from The Hamilton Literary Magazine, June 1904

J. B. & J. M. TURNBULL

MAR

29

1900

Utica, N. Y.

Insurance Agent Cancels: B. Geer & Son of Saginaw, Michigan

from The Michigan Miner, December 1, 1898

B. Geer & Son,

FEB 1 1900

Saginaw

Insurance Company Cancels: Northern Life Association of Marshalltown, Iowa

 

from The St. Paul Globe, March 2, 1897

Northern Life Assn

DEC 20 1898

Marshalltown, Iowa

Insurance Agent Cancels: Chase & Schanfeld of Minneapolis

 

from The American Jewish World of St. Paul & Minneapolis, December 29, 1922

CHASE & SCHANFELD

The erstwhile Metropolitan Life Building in Minneapolis.

Razed in 1961. Former location of the office of Chase & Schanfeld.

Library of Congress photo.

Insurance Company Cancels: Hanover Fire Insurance Company of New York

HANOVER FIRE INS.

JUN

8

1899

NEW YORK

From the Worcester, Mass. Telegram & Gazette, March 6, 2013:

The Hanover Insurance Group began as the Hanover Fire Insurance Co., in Hanover Square, New York City. It met many challenges in its early history, including The Great Chicago and Boston fires of the late 1800s. Though these disasters put nearly 70 other insurers out of business, Hanover survived, paying out all of its claims and helping the two cities rebuild. Later, in 1915, Hanover wrote the first auto policy in the State of Michigan, not long after cars began rolling out of Detroit’s factories. Along the way, it’s provided auto insurance to icons, including Babe Ruth.

In 1969, the company moved to Worcester. Today, Hanover does business across United States and abroad. It employs about 5,100 people, 1,825 of which work at its headquarters on Lincoln Street. 

 

Insurance Agent Cancels: Frost, Luckey & Son

 

from the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle, February 8, 1895

Frost, Luckey & Son,

JUN 9 1901

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Insurance Agent Cancels: W. A. Warburton, Special Agent for Aetna

W. A. WARBURTON,

1899

Brooklyn, N. Y.

W. A. WARBURTON,

1900

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

W. A. Warburn as a listed special agent for Aetna in 1896

Insurance Company Cancels: Western Mutual Life Association

Western Mutual Life Ass'n,

I. R.

JUL  16  1900

CHICAGO.

scan of R172 courtesy of David Thompson

Western Mutual Life was still doing business in 1923

Insurance Agent Cancels: Starkweather & Shepley of Providence, Rhode Island

from the Souvernir Book of The Providence Teacher's Bazaar, Infantry Hall, November 1901.

 

STARKWEATHER & SHEPLEY,

JAN 13 1900

PROVIDENCE, R. I.

Insurance Agent Cancels: Anderson & Dorr of Pensacola, Florida

from Maloney's Pensacola City Directory, 1900

ANDERSON & DORR

JUN

23

1900

PENSACOLA.

Insurance Company Cancels: County Fire Insurance Company

County Fire Insurance "Firemark".  Likely brass, the plate was attached to buildings insured by County Fire Insurance to indicate which houses their fire brigade should attend to.  This plate was likely used somewhere in the UK, the home country of County Fire Insurance.

THE COUNTY

NOV 4 1898

FIRE INS. CO.

Insurance Company Licenses: New York State Power of Attorney to Robert Dickinson for Royal Exchange Assurance

 

Oops.  Royal Assurance granted power of attorney to Robert Dickinson to sell their fire insurance policies in the United States in 1900.  He was based in San Francisco.  The great San Francisco fire would happen in 1906.  The attached document grants Dickinson full POA for the entire United States; this license applies to insurance sold in New York.

Insurance Company Licenses: Uncapher & McKinley of Marion, Ohio for The Maryland Casualty Company

State of Ohio Insurance License for 1901 for the Maryland Casualty Company and its agents, Uncapher & McKinley of Marion, Ohio.  The license legally grants power of attorney to transact business in Ohio to Uncapher & McKinley; the POA was taxed 10 cents.

R168 stamp in the upper right corner of the license.  The cancel is unclear.  A cancel of The Maryland Casualty Company has featured twice on this site.

Insurance Company Cancels: The Chicago Insurance Company

Outside jacket of insurance policy document date 18 October, 1898, valid for three years, with scarce, but damaged 1/2 cent orange documentary battleship stamp.  Unfold this pamphlet and you get the full policy document that you see below.  Frank, another 1/2 cent on document example for your census.

 

Policy written for $3750 of coverage for Henry Garner, Esquire, for his farm in West Virginia, including for $50 on the meat inside Mr. Garner's smoke house.