...Pennsylvania. Preferred Mutual Insurance Company, 17 South Main Street, New Berlin, New York 13411. The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses From Loss by Fire, 212 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106. Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance...

...Casualty Insurance Company, 1900 Derry Street (17104), PO Box 2361 (17105), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses From Loss by Fire, 212 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106. Preferred Mutual Insurance Company, 17 South...

...was not sent" 'Joseph Morris (1715-1785), Philadelphia ironmaster, was in 1752 an original director of the "Philadelphia Contributionship for the insurance of houses from Loss by fire" with Benjamin Franklin, Amos Strettell, and others. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,...

...insurance scheme. Nothing immediately came of this plan, but two years later, again sponsored by Franklin, the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire was established. Commonly known as the Hand-in-Hand from its firemark, the Contributionship was the...

...as a muddle. The revered Horace Binney, in his address in 1852 at the observance of the centennial of the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire (founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 and managed by Binney for the past thirty-nine years), complained...

...Mordecai Lewis, a prominent merchant in the East India trade, director of the Bank of North America, the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, treasurer of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and founder of the...

...Ibid. 31. A basic history of the Philadelphia Contributionship can be found in Nicholas Wainwright, The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire (Philadelphia, 1952). 32. Carol Wojtowicz, "Office of the Philadelphia Contributionship," 227th Annual...

...itself: in 1752, Benjamin Franklin organized the first successful American cooperative when he formed the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire - a mutual insurance company still in existence today. The rapid growth of credit unions in America...

...itself: in 1752, Benjamin Franklin organized the first successful American cooperative when he formed the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire - a mutual insurance company still in existence today. The rapid growth of credit unions in America...

...century. American underwriters started issuing policies around 1750. And in 1752, Benjamin Franklin and the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire started a fire insurance company. It Was an Accident, Really Casualty insurance was originally designed...