The Yale expositor., 1914-10-01
FIVE MICHIGAN MEN
ELECTED DIRECTORS IN LINCOLN
NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
20 MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY
New Directors to Look After Interests
of 1000 Michigan
Policyholders.

COiuNdIeI anu buTL >. OlIdltOH vi
Lansing were today elected directors
of The Lincoln National Life lnsur
ance Co of this city, which has over
twenty million dollars of life insurance
in force.
Mr.. DENLY served three terms In
Congress. He is an attorney, a mem
Der of the well-known law firm of
Chamberlain, May, DENLY and Web
ster. He is also Director of the DENLY
Motor Truck Co. OF Detroit, Director
of the National Bank of Commerce
and Treasurer of the Hupp Motor Car
Co.
Mr.. Sleeper was formerly Treasurer
Of State. He is a banker and controls
about dozen banks in the Thumb
District. He is also a director in the
Merchants National Bank Of Detroit.
Mr.. Morton is President of the Nor
ton Manufacturing Co., manufacturers
OF large machinery, and President OF
the State Savings Bank at Muskegon
Heights.
Mr.. Loveridge is one OF the promi-
nent attorneys OF Southern Michigan
and a bank director.
Mr.. Stratton is one of the leading
life insurance men of the State and
is General Agent at Lansing OF the
Lincoln Life.
All these gentlemen were formerly
stockholders in the Michigan State
Life Insurance Co. OF Detroit, which
consolidated 10 CD ~
with the Lincoln Life. Roth compa-
MES were splendid life insurance or
CARNATIONS and the consolidation.
which was made under the supervision
and approval of the Insurance Com
missioners OF both Michigan and In
diana. has made the Lincoln Life one
Of the greatest companies in the mid
die West.
II is interesting to read the com.
ments OF the leading insurance jour
nails OF the country upon the success
OF the Lincoln Life:
THE Lincoln National is one OF the
companies that has elected the ad-
miration Of the insurance fraternity,
owing ID the high character Of It's
management. 1t has kept aloof from
all schemes and pitfalls, desiring to
develop along natural lineI. It's team
work at the home Office and in the
field has often been commented on,
and is responsible for much Of the re-
suits II has been able to achieve. Its
directors comprise men of high stand.
ing and integrity, who are interested
in the work of the company.
Personnel Of the officers.
Arthur F. Hall, vice-president and
general manager, is a man OF keen
ability, splendid character and extend
ed experience. Franklin b. Mead, sec
rotary and actuary of the Lincoln Ma
tional, is one of the foremost actuaries
in the country, and has done much
original work in his line.
Walter T. Shepard, third vice-presi-
dent and agency manager, is one Of
the capable field generals of the West.
He is in close touch with the agents,
and he enjoys their respect.
The officers of the Lincoln National
have been leaders in all movements
looking toward reforms in life insur-
ance Their views on the response.
bilties of life company officers have
impressed policyholders with the fact
that their interests are in safe hands.
THE Lincoln National has been con.
sistently progressive. 1t is one of the
choice western companies that is built
on bed rock and every piece OF ma
terial in IL is sound. "-Western I'm
derwriter, Chicago, May IA, 1914.
Among the companies of its home
state, the Lincoln National Life last
year led in net gain in insurance, and
or the fifty-one life companies now in
business out of the sixty organized
throughout the country during 1905,
1906 and 1907, the Lincoln National
stood second in net increase in insur-
ance in force during 1913. The COM
pany is truly a conspicuous success,
and this is the more to its credit, as
it came into being at time when the
life insurance business was literally
all shot to pieces
"Organized under the compulsory le-
gal reserve law of Indiana, it more
Inan computes lneTeWllus us deposit
with the Auditor of State always ex-
ceeding by comfortable margin it's
policyholders' reserve liability. Its
management is competent and efficient
and deserving of absolute confidence.
Surely the company is now on the
threshold of still greater things and
steadily increasing in strength and Inn
portance Rough Notes. Indianapolis,
May IL. 1914
A Clean, Progressive Company.
THE Lincoln National Life is a
clean, progressive company, differed
by men thoroughly trained in the
school Of experience,
Under conservative management
the Lincoln National has forged its
way along, weighing every move to
determine that IL was in the right d.
rection, then aggressively and consist
emily plying all the energy of a we'll
developed agency force to accomplish
the results desired, until today II
stands, while not the largest, one OF
the leading western companies. -
Eastern Underwater, New York, May