Insurance companies and agents used millions of 1898 documentary revenue stamps, in particular, the 1/2 cent, 4, 40 and 80 cent stamps, though their cancels may be found on every value in the documentary series. This page, and its sister page Insurance Companies, include a list of cancels posted on this website. You are invited to browse the links below and view the scans of canceled stamps.
The US 1898 War Revenue Law taxed insurace policies as follows:
Life Insurance: Policy of insurance...upon life or lives, for each one hundred dollars or fractional part thereof, eight cents on the amount insured: Provided, That on all policies, for life insurance only, issued on the industrial or weekly payment plan of insurance, the tax shall be forty per centum of the amount of the first weekly premium. Fraternal and cooperative societies providing insurance-type programs were exempt from these taxes.Casualty, Fidelity & Guarantee Insurance: Each policy of insurance ... of the nature of indemnity for loss, damage or bond or obligation...transacting the business of accident, fidelity, employer's liability, plate glass, steam boiler, burglary, elevator, automatic sprinkler ... and each bond undertaking or recognizance, conditioned for the performance of any office...or guaranteeing titles to real estate or mercantile credits...[taxed] one half of one cent on each dollar or fractional part thereof.
The following list of links includes insurance agents, both those dedicated to specific insurance companies and mostly, those operating independently and selling the policies of multiple insurance companies. This list includes but a small fraction of the insurance agents operating during the 1898 tax period. There were likely thousands of agents selling policies, so collecting and identifying these cancels can provide a philatelist with a lifetime project. As such, this list of links is a work in progress, and will be added to as new material is posted and as your editor thinks to append this list.
Alexander & Trammell, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Anderson & Dorr, Pensacola, Florida
Frank Appleby, Asbury Park, NJ
Austin & Woolverton, Albany, NY
Avery & Pendleton, Brooklyn, NY
Baldwin & Frick, Baltimore, MD
Barbee & Castleman, Louisville, Kentucky
R. O. Barksdale, Washington, Georgia
A. E. Barrows Co., Connersville, Indiana
Bates & Hogsett, Kansas City, MO
Beach & Sweet, Providence, Rhode Island
Bennett, Hutchinson & Company, Evansville, Indiana
J. J. Boatwright & Son Insurance, Wilmington, NC
H. J. Bowell & Company, Merrill, Wisconsin
Briggs Carson, Tifton, Georgia
Butler & Haldan, San Francisco
Butler & Hewitt, San Francisco
Chase & Schanfeld, Minneapolis
Milton Clark Company, Rochester, NY
S. O. Cotton & Brother, Houston, TX
Davant & Company, Savannah, GA
H. D. Eichelberger & Company, Richmond, VA + Bisects
Ellison, Coolidge & Company, Boston
Ferguson & Wallace, Saginaw, MI
John E. Finnegan, San Francisco
J. W. Fitzgerald & Co., Little Falls, NY
Walter Fowler, West Superior, WI
Frost, Luckey & Son, Poughkeepsie, NY
Gentle & Ludwig, Houlton, Maine
Homer G. Gilmore, Springfield, Mass
Charles L. Gove, Albany, NY
S. C. Green, Henderson, Kentucky
R. H. Guibord, Plattsburgh, NY
Heeman, Kranz & Co., Toledo, OH
Heffernan & Burleigh, Plattsburgh, NY
Charles E. Hochstetler, Kansas City
Holyoke & Russell, Marlboro, Mass
G. Ph. Hunkel & Son, Milwaukee
J. S. Juno & Sons, Schenectady, NY
Thomas B. Knight & Co, Lynn, Mass
Libby & Hussey, Portland, Maine
H. C. Little & Son, Lewiston, Maine
Merrill, Dodge & Jackson Company, Toledo, Ohio
Meyst & Coates, Milwaukee
George E. Miller & Co., North Adams, Mass
Charles D. Mill, General Agent for New England Mutual Life
Montgomery & Funkhouser, Chicago
Nicholas G. Norcross, Lowell, Mass
Robert O'Gorman & Company, Newark, NJ
Noah H. Pangborn, Beaver Falls, PA
Parker & Shipton, Pittsfield, Mass
John B. Pirtle, Louisville, Kentucky
A. J. Reibling & Son, Rochester, NY
Risley & Cavileer, Atlantic City, NJ
G. Rosenblatt, Portland, Oregon
Lake W. Sanborn, Galesburg, IL
George C. Sawyer, Syracuse, NY
D. D. Sayer, Chickasha, Indian Territory
Schermerhorn & Company, Schenectady, NY
Sheafer & Lowrey, Pottsville, PA
Silsbee, Baker & Geer, Lynn, Mass
Sloper & May, Pittsfield, Mass
Starkweather & Shepley, Providence, RI
Charles E. Stickney, Springfield, Mass
Tennis & Greeley, West Superior, WI
J. W. Thompson & Sons, Detroit
Tippett & Baker, Dover, Delaware
R. A. Travis & Company, Tarentum, PA
J. B. & J. M. Turnbull, Utica, NY
Uncapher & McKinley, Marion, Ohio
L. Van Cleef, Niagara Fallls, New York
E. A. Van Trump, Wilmington, Delaware
Van Wyck & Quinn, Brooklyn, NY
Voss, Conrad & Company, San Francisco
Walke & Son, Norfolk, Virginia
Ed. E. Walker & Co., Covington, KY
Charles H. Webster, Northfield, Mass
Weed & Parker Brothers, St. Paul, MN
Woodsworth-Hawley Co., Buffalo
Fred C. Wright, Springfield, Mass
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