Recollections of a Fire Insurance Man: Including His Experience in U. S. Navy (Mississippi Squadron) During the Civil War (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Robert Siderfin Critchell

9780331737363: Recollections of a Fire Insurance Man: Including His Experience in U. S. Navy (Mississippi Squadron) During the Civil War (Classic Reprint)

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My experience in the fire insurance business has so far covered a period of about half a century, as I commenced on the 9th day of February, 1857, as an office boy in the fire in surance agency of Samuel E. Mack Co., at 37 West Third street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The partners in that firm at the time consisted, besides Mr. Mack, of Joseph Van Bergen and D. G. Evans. Mr. Van Bergen was succeeded by Wm. L. Evans soon afterwards. Mr. Mack was at that time western special agent for the Home Insurance Company of New York and occupied very confidential and intimate rela tions with that company. The officers of the company were then: Charles J. Martin, president; Colonel A. F. Wilmarth, vice president, and John mcgee, secretary. Colonel Wilmarth was a very genial man and very popular with the fraternity. He was a great story teller and his stories were told when ever he was present at a gathering of insurance men. Samuel E. Mack Co. Were also agents for several other companies. The commissions paid agents at that time, as I remember, were 8 per cent ﬂat, with 12 per cent contingent, or 10 per cent ﬂat and no contingent.

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