CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE FARMERS' MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES [NY] [and] Articles of Association of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

Published by np, [New York, NY, 1856

About this Item

Single sheet, folded to 32.5 x 20.5 cm., [2] leaves. The two items, printed on pages [1] and [3], with both versos blank. Old folds (a few tiny separations), some old staining and browning, a few tiny holes. The first document, a printed broadside, is self-explanatory. The second is a partly printed form, completed in manuscript, being an application, dated December 15, 1856, for fire insurance on the hog farm of Jacob and John Lipe of Minden, Montgomery Co., New York. The policy has the ms. signature of Daniel McFarlan, Secretary of the company at bottom. A printed table of insured property, with manuscript additions and corrections, includes a dwelling house ($1,000), household goods, with "Clothing" added ($400), provisions & grain ($75), two barns ($300 total), two cow sheds ($100), hay & grain "in any insured building" ($100), wagon house ($50), and Farming Utensils "in any above insured buildings" ($250). A "Cook House" ($50) and "Corn House" ($15), have been added to the list in manuscript, as has the Hog House ($100), appended at end, bringing the total value of property insured to $2440. The coverage is to run for 5 years from the date of the certificate, but a separate, signed note in the hand of the agent (unidentified) indicates that the Hog House insurance expires in March of 1861. This document also lists the officers and directors of the company, most of whom reside in Perth, N.Y. The 1860 Federal Census lists Jacob and John Lipe as living in the same household in Minden (with 5 other family members), their ages being 63 and 33, respectively. The property is listed in the younger man's name, with real estate valued at $11,500 and personal property at $7,000. John E. Lipe is listed in the 1869-70 Gazetteer and Business Directory of Montgomery County (Syracuse: Child, 1869) as a dairy farmer with 35 cows, living in Fort Plain. Jacob Lipe is still living and listed as "with John E." Farmers' Mutual, founded at a meeting at the Perth Centre Hotel in March of 1853, still exists. A sketch of the early history of the company can be found on its website, fulmontmutual.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE FARMERS' MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, OF FULTON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES [NY] [and] Articles of Association of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
• Publisher: np, [New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1856
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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  • Americana