Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-31
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
Organization Uf Local Advisory
Board for Buchanan Co.

Pursuant to notice, those persons hold
ing policies in the Equitable Life ASST
rance Company, met at the Office of Brew
er Bros, last Tuesday evening, March %,
fer the purpose of organizing local
Board of Directors for the county. The
meeting was organized by the election of
Lorenzo Moore as Chairman, and Rufus
Brewer, Secretary.
The plan of organization was explained
3y the agent, Wells Cook Esq, and the
articles of agreement read, after which,
the Board was organized by the election
of officers. The Directory is composed
of the following gentlemen:
w. G. Donnan, Elk. Member of Con-
gress.
Lorenzo Moore, dry goods
August Myers,
W. II. Chamberlin,
VIM. Toman, editor.
w. Il. Kenyon, hardware.
w. H. II. Morse, dry goods.
Rufus Brewer, abstract office.
Frank Brewer, insurance.
E. E. Hasner, attorney.
Newton Bros, dry goods.
8. G. Wilson, physician.
OFFICERS
w. r.. Kenyon, President.
Lorenzo Moore, Vice President
r. Brewer, Secretary and Treasurer.
Brewer Bros, Agents.
House & Wilson, Medical Examiners
The purpose of the Company and the
work of the Advisory Board, are express
ed in the following resolutions, which
were adopted by the Board:
WHEREAS, The Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society proposes to organize Local
Advisory Boards of Directors at various
points in the United States, for the purpose
of localizing said Society and giving to
its policy holders an additional protection
against fraud and culpable negligence
arising on the part of agents, the assured
or others, by clothing said Board with au-
thority to audit and adjust, in accordance
with the rules of the Society, all death
losses and claims that may arise under
policies in said Equitable Life AS urance
Society, in the districts assigned to said
Local Boards of Directors, upon submits
sion of the same to them by the officers
of the said Society.
WHEREAS, Said system brings the au-
diting and adjusting of all losses that said
Society may sustain within our commune
ty under the immediate supervision of
persons locally known and within easy
communication of the benefciaries of its
policy holders; therefore
Reso!ved, That we extend to said Socie-
ty our most hearty approval and endorse
ment of said system.
Resolced, That to all citizens of this
city and elsewhere, who are DESTROYS of
protecting their families or others by the
means of life insurance, we recommend
to their reflection this feature in the adj
justment of claims that may arise upon
policies of this Society.
That we recommend said Equitable
Life Assurance Society, as one animated
with spirit of perfect equity, and zeal
Gus not only III the protection of its policy
holders, in the wise and economic man.
agement of its affairs, but in the simple
and equitable adjustment of its losses.
That we carrying in said Society a pol
icy on each of our lives) feel the most
perfect confidence in said Society, and
earnestly appeal to all our friends, both
here and elsewhere, to lend to it their own
similar endorsement.
The Board then adjourned subject to
the call of the President