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4 Jul 2023, 3:00 am by Chip Merlin
Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Franklin helped form The Philadelphia Contributionship For The Insurance of Houses From Loss By Fire in 1752. [read post]
13 Sep 2008, 3:06 pm
But I love the full name and identity of the plaintiff insurer in this case -- The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire, the oldest property insurance company in the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin and a group of prominent Philadelphia citizens. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:50 am by Chip Merlin
Benjamin Franklin, of course, then the 29-year old publisher of the Gazette, who was soon to create America's first organized fire brigades and found the incipient nation's first fire insurance company, The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire. [read post]