Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut - a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation (1911) (14597742537)

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Title: Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917 Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917 Bostwick, Frederick, b. 1852 Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843-1920 Stearns, Ezra S
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Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Publishing
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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rd of directors.He worked at first through southern Massa-chusetts and eastern Connecticut, and witliina short time his agency included four com-panies transacting business on the mutualplan, one of which, the Holyoke Mutual ofSalem, remained in business many years. In1848 he was appointed traveling agent for thePeoples Insurance Company of Worcester,retaining the position until 1852. From thattime until 1856 he was in the railroading busi-ness. In 1852 he was assistant superintend-ent of the Central Ohio Railway Company,and removed to Ohio, where he was laterpromoted to the office of general superintend-ent of the road. He was one of the organ-izers of the first association of railroad su-)ierintendents in the United States, the meet-ing for the purpose being held in Columbus.Ohio, in 1853. In i860 )\Ir. Chase resumedthe first insurance business as the Westerngeneral agent for the New England Fire In-surance Company of Hartford; in 1863 wasassistant general agent of the Hartford Fire
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CONNECTICUT 1951 Insurance Company, and in 1867 he was elect-ed president of the company, succeeding Tim-othy C. AUyn. For forty-one years the man-agement of the business of the company wasin his hands, and was most effectively han-dled, placing- him in the front rank of insur-ance men of the country. The Hartford FireInsurance Company is one of the oldest in thecountry ; in its business of one hundred yearsit has had only six presidents, and )\lr. Chaseexceeded all in his length of service. WhenMr. Chase became president, the office of thecompany was on )\Iain street, in very limitedquarters. At his suggestion a lot was pur-chased on the corner of Pearl and Trumbullstreets, and a handsome granite building erect-ed. It was occupied by the company in 1870,and was equipped with every convenience andat that time was the finest insurance buildingin the city. In 1897 the building was enlargedby the erection of an addition which gavethem double the accommodation. The busi-ness, in the meant