Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-01-25
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ACCIDENT INSURANCE.

TUE TRAVELLERS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HART
FoRD-GEy. JULIUS WHITE.
in the entire range of underwriting
annals for the past ten years, no fact
is more striking than the rapid adop.
tion Of the new principle of Accident
Insurance. 1t is not new indeed.
abroad, but in this country and the
Northwest it is not many months since
the first policy was written. This pro-
gress is due very largely to the circum-
stance of there having been made a
most excellent beginning. 1t gave tae
system all the benefit of first Impress
ions, and those good ones. when, under
auspices of the best class, solid, well
based company from the old insurance
centre. Hartford, the Travellers Insur-
ance Company of that city. first intro
dncing the system in America, became
candidate for popular favor The
amount of business already done by
this Company in all parts of the United
States is immense and constantly in
creasing. Who are it's patrons would
call for answers as various as
the lists of the city directory. Every
man whose business gives him no
large surplus, and whose disaster in
casualty would bring his dependent
ones to want, is subject for this class
OF protection, aud can in no wise afford
10 do without it. Whether his voca-
tion be that Of traveller, or Of an en-
ploye on route of travel, or whether
his only trips are made on horse cars.
or among the pitfalls Of our sidewalks.
or country roads. in the house or by
the way" he without it is unsafe. Let
him not forget that If +" honesty is the
best policy" there is still another poll
ey he will be only honest to his family
to include with it. one in "the Travel
lers' Of Hartford"
With the broad extension their com
pany business 10 the Northwest, the
management have been constrained
to put its affairs into the very best
keeping. This has been done in the
choice of Gen. Julius White. an officer
of deserved repute in the armies of the
Union while the war lasted, but who
by prompt resignation at its close re-
sumed his citizen capacity, an active
and energetic business man. His
war record was shining one. Rails
ing noble regiment the 37th lllinois)
he entered the service at the sacrifice
Of the most lucrative Federal Office IL
this city--the United States Collector
ship. From these antecedents the
Travellers Insurance Company are tS
he congratulated in the selection Of al
agent than whom it would not be easy
to find another with wider circle o
friends. Gen. White returns. on the
resumption of citizen duties, to his ole
vocation of insurance. He is happy i;
the selection of an associate, Nj. j
Goodwin, Jr., for four years in ths
Office of the old lEtna of Hartford
most Of the time as Assistant Secreta
Try, who will bring 10 the duties O
Office management educated insuranc.
qualities, accepted among his wide
circle of acquaintances as Of the yer.
highest order.
Gen. White will chiefly devote him
self to the extension Of the business o
the company in the West With th,
ample authority committed to the Chi
cago General Agency under this ma
agement, the Travellers Insuranc
Company of Hartford, now practicall
localized here, will be favorite wit
, the public as it deserves to be. No
the least of the advantages is tn
prompt payment of losses without th
delay of reference to the parent office
Gen. Whites many friends will wis
,, him all the success he deserves, and
il comes in large amount it will nc
come under the head named in the pol
cies Of his company, for it will be ]
|, no respect an accident. 1t will be wo
t and paid for by skill and energy
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