History Of The Home Insurance Company

Author : Charles Jackson Martin
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230411910
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book History of the Home Insurance Company written by Charles Jackson Martin and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. THE QUARTER CENTURY DINNER. In accordance with the arrangement of the Committee appointed by the Board on 12th March, 1878, for a suitable commemoration of the completion of the Company's first quarter century (in the following month), the Directors and Officers, with a few invited guests, gathered at Pinard's No. 5 East Sixteenth Street on Friday evening the 12th of April, and after a suitable invocation of the Divine blessing by Rev. Wm. M. TayLor, D. D., the assembled company sat down to the dinner which had been provided for the occasion. When the physical needs appeared to have been pretty fully satisfied, the President briefly referred to the circumstances of the present gathering under such favorable auspices, after twenty-five years of varied vicissitudes through which the Company had passed, and to the fact that of the original forty-five there were thirteen Directors now remaining in the Board, whose cooperation and counsel had been constant and valuable in promoting the prosperity of the Institution, several of whom he was glad to see here to-night, and he would propose as the first Toast of the evening, calling on Mr. Isaac H. Frothingham, one of "the thirteen," for a response, "The Veterans: We honor the thirteen who remain to us of the original Directors as men who have done their duty and their whole duty." Mr. Frothingham said: Mr. President, I did not expect to be the first called upon to respond to any sentiment, especially to one wherein there seems to be such a seeming invidiousness, amounting almost to an incongruity, as is evinced in the selection of myself to speak for "The Veterans," when of the original thirteen there are so many of the older members who have seemingly been overlooked. From the very...