San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-09
AGENCY
Of LINCOLN
SETS RECORD
Leads e State Offices With
Years Business Total
Of $5,702,600.
CREDIT TO DOUGLAS
Stellar Work of Local
Manager Receives Con-
siderable Recognition.

The remarkable record Of paid for
business rolled up by the Lincoln Ma.
tional Life Insurance Company in
1928 was aided materially by the stel-
lar work of the o. ID. Douglas Agency
Of Texas which gained the top Of all
Lincoln National Life sales organiza-
tions last year. The Texas agency,
which is one of the youngest Of 3e
company, topped the California agency
for first place by the narrow margin
of S57 500 of paid for business and
with total of 500, 600 10 its credit.
The Lincoln National Life Insur-
ance Company now has more than
$500, 100000 of life insurance in
force. The company was organized in
1905 by Arthur f. Hall. Mr.. Hall is
now president of the company since
the retirement of Samuel NJ. Foster,
who is chairman of the board Of di-
rectors.
A Fast Growing Business.
The achievement of being one of the
fastest growing life insurance COM
panies in the world has come to the
Lincoln National Life partly because
of the harmony of purpose and action
maintained in the ranks of its execu-
tives. Exactly the same men are now
at the head of the organization that
have always been at its head. The
same men who organized the company,
who sold every dollar of its stock nine
teen years ago, are its managers now.
Had not these men been of high per-
sonal character, it is pointed out that
they could not have worked happily
together through all these years in
building the company's business.
The safety of policyholders in the
Lincoln National. Life is safeguarded
by its organization under the Indiana
life insurance laws. The Indiana in
surance laws demand that the actual
securities making up all Lincoln Ma
tional Life policies be deposited with
the state so that approved securities
will be certain for taking care of all
claims. Under this plan it is main
tanned that a Lincoln National Life
policy is as strong as national bank
note.
The Lincoln National Life Insur-
ance Company last year erected
magnificent new home office building
in the heart of the business section
of Fort Wayne, Ind. Its new home
office structure has been called by
architectural critics "The Most Beau
tiful Life Insurance Building in the
World"
This large four-story building is oc-
cupied exclusively by the Lincoln Ma
tional Life Insurance Company and
the foundations are laid for a fifteen
story building.
Record Set Here.
The Lincoln National Life Insur-
ance Company issues all recognized
forms of policies upon a non-partici-
pating basis. 1t accepts women on the
same basis as men and writes every
standard form Of policy down to age
10. 1t also issues child's exchange
able policy beginning at age i.
The Texas agency OF the Lincoln
National Life Insurance Company has
indeed proven a record breaker. There
is no more notable achievement in the
country than that attained by O. ID.
Douglas of San Antonio in building
an agency in the course of three years
that paid for $5,702 600 of business
in 1923.
The massive growth Of this Texas
agency is said to be due to the strong
of Mr.. Douglas and his
ability to select and train men who
are genuine fighters for business. The
Texas agency showed a continued gain
through 1928 in the face of quite dis
conditions in certain por-
tons of Texas.
Each year the Lincoln National
Life Insurance Company pays special
homage to the members of its leading