The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-30
HOWELL INSURANCE WAS ALMOST HALF. BIRMINGHAM TOTAL
Paid Death Claim List for Alabama Us Issued By h. suranCe Press-Magi0
 City Is S735,000

ne lHSuIdnCe fTeeS mas mad6 public its annual list of life insur- ance death claims during 1920, which shows a total for Birmingham of $735,000 during the year.
 The largest amount paid in Ala bama was $S50,000 on the life of Emory M. Nowell.
 A list of the Alabama payments is as follows: st
 ALICEVILLE
 William E. Stringfeilow ..-.s 1a.ooo
 ANNIsToN
 John Bruce Darlington .... 15,0oo
 AUTAUGAvILLE
 William A. Jordan ....,.... 14.0oO
 BEsSEMER @M,s William J. Long ...,......,. 34,ooo . BIRMINGHAM
 Emory M. Nowell l.......... $50, 900 Name not given .......... 20,000 Laurens Block ..,...,..,.,,. 18,132 Culpepper Exum .....,.... 1S,0oo Kenneth A. Ivy ............. 17.50o Charles H. Nabb -........... 10,263 James M. Morgan ...........4 10.163 John I. Blount .......... 10000 William P. Pinckard ........ 10,OO Name not given ........,.. 10000
 CITRONELLE
 William F. Brown .......... 10000
 DECATUR
 PanaPoatis p Rallas 12 mo
 ETowAH
 Edward E. Jensen ........ 20,OO2
 FLORENCE
 John T. Ashcraft ........... 1o2e
 HAYNEvILLE
 Matthew McGrath ....... 21,oO0
 HUNTSVILLE Frank R. Karthaus ........ 17000 Charles G. billiard ........ 15,0O0
 MOBILE
 E. l.. McGowin ....... 25.0OO Tucker H. Frazer ........ 15000
 MONTGOMERY rts Edward E. Cobbs ,....,.... 1O 900 Bernard Gaston, ............. 10000 Name not given .........i.. 10000
 ORRVILLE
 Max Erdreich ......s....,...s 35S37
 SELMA Bishop S. Melvin .s...s..... 10000
 SLOCOMB
 Matthew Seay e. ..4..~.-.... 10000
 BROWNSVILLE
 TUSCALOOSA John Kimbrough .....s....-. 17,500 Henry l.. Lyon :. .....@..t.e.... 10000
 PLACE NOT GIVEN W Ii. M. Price -.... .s,i....a.s,s.'. lS,00o D. w. Partridge ........ss.. l0.lS9 Isadore Friedman Sa. ..... 10000
 Under the head aIncidents of the Life Insurance Business" the Insur- ance Press review contains the fol- lowing of special interests to Bir- mingham:
 The adaptability of life insurance to meet almost any situation in which probable loss may result from the death of an individual. Is again illus trated by the action of the Inde pendent Presbyterian church of Bir- mingham, Ala, which lately took out $100000 policy on the life of it's pastor, the Rev. Henry NJ. Edmonds.
 "Mr. Edmonds was formerly the pastor of another church, but with drew from the Synod and formed an independent organization, which raised s125,ooo toward $S0o,000S building project
 "The deacons of the new church  realized that the success of the ven. ture was dependent very materially upon tho survival of MT. Edmonds un- til the church was solidly established and that his prema ture death would seriously affect the organization and perhaps ruin it's future.
 Accordingly, so as to guarantee the church against a heavy debt or an incompleted building in the event of the death of the distinguished clergy man, the proposal to insure his life. for $100.000 was presented to the congregation and instantly approved.
 By this arrangement, both the people and the pastor are happily satisfied, the people because they will get S100,000 as compensation for the loss of their minister. and Mir. Ed monds because he is apparently inn mune from losing his job except by death.'
 Among the large payments on the lives of women in 1920 were the fol- lowing; Pearl Wight, New Orleans, La, $169,SS0; Olive Thomas Pckford, New York city, $lS5,00o: Lucretia k,