Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-01-19
The Travelcrss Insurance Conn any OF
Hartford.


nay John III. Brown, Of Cedar Falls.
has been appointed Agent of the Tray
elers' Insurance Company of Hartford
Conn. An idea Of the character and re-
liability of this Company may be form
ed rom perusal of the following truth
ful statement made by the Chicago
Tribune.
"In the entire range of underwriting annals
for the past ten years, no fact is more striking
than the rapid adoption OF the new principle
OF Accident insurance. 1t is not new indeed
abroad, but in this country and the Northwe est
1t is not many months since the first policy
to the circumst; n e ofthere having been made
most excellent beginning. 1t gave the sys-
tenn all tie benefit OF first impressions, and
these good ones. when, under auspices of the
best class, a solid, Well based company from
the old insurance centre, Hartford, the Travel
ers' Insurance Company of that city, first
introducing the system in America, became a
candidate for popular favor. The amount OF
business already done by this Company in ali
parts OF the United States Is immense and
constantly increasing. Who are its patrons
would call for answers as various as the Isis
ness gives him no large surplus, and whose
disaster in a casualty would bring his depend
ent ones to want Is a subject for this class of
protection and can in no wise afford to do
without 1t. Whether his vocation be that of O
traveller, or of an employe on a route of travel
or whether his only trips are made on horse
cars, or among tne pitfalls OF our sidewalks or
country roads, ain the house or by the way"
he without IL is unsafe. Let him not forget
that II honesty is the best policy - there is
still another policy he viii be only honest to
his family to include with 1t, one in 81 the Trav-
elers OF Hartford"
with the broad extension ofthefr company
business in the Northwest. the management
have been constrained to put its affairs into
the choice of Gen. julius White, an officer of
deserved repute i'm the arms of the Union while
the war lasted, but who, by prompt resignation
at Its close resumed his citizen capacity, an
record was shining one. Raising a noble
regiment,-the 37th Iilinois,-he entered the
service at the sacrifice of the most la ratiye
Federal office in this city-the United states
Collectorship. From these antecedents the
Travellers Insurance Company are to be con-
graduated In the selection Of an agent than
whom IL would not be easy to find anothe
with wider circle of friends. General White
To his old vocation OF insurance. He is happy
in the selection Of an associate, NJ. j. Goodwin
Jr, for four years in the Office OF the old .i;tna
OF Hartford, most of the time as Assistant
Secretary, who will bring to the duties of office
management educated insurance qualities,
accepted among his wide circle of acqualntan-
ces rs OF the very highest order.
".Gen. White will chiefly devote himself to
the extension of the business of the company
In the West. With the ample authority COM
United to the Chicago General Agency under
this management, the Travellers Insurance
Company Of Hartford, now practically localized
mere. Will be a fayorite with the public as IL
deserves to be- Not the least ofthe ad vantages
delay OF reference to the parent Office. Gen.
Whites many friends will wish him all the
success he deserves, and II 1t comes in large
amount IL will not come under the head ma med
no respect an accident 1t will be won and
paid for by skill And energy.