. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . O L* P F 1 K F M K N. Assurance Company—was rounded in New York, and il slid exists wit 11 the\ei \ appropriate title of the Knickerbocker Fire Insurance Company. The next organization was the Insurance Company of North America, ofPhiladelphia, founded in 1704 on the stock plan, whose representatives arcamong as to-day as active, earnest promoters of this Board. In 1?!)7 the Mas-sachusetts Fire Company was chartered in Boston, but it long since passedout of existence, and in 1?!
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . O L* P F 1 K F M K N. Assurance Company—was rounded in New York, and il slid exists wit 11 the\ei \ appropriate title of the Knickerbocker Fire Insurance Company. The next organization was the Insurance Company of North America, ofPhiladelphia, founded in 1704 on the stock plan, whose representatives arcamong as to-day as active, earnest promoters of this Board. In 1?!)7 the Mas-sachusetts Fire Company was chartered in Boston, but it long since passedout of existence, and in 1?!>S, in the same city, the Massachusetts Mutual wasorganized, and after having weathered many storms ceased to exist in 1872,asa result of the great tire. There was established in the town of Boston, in1724, The Sun Fire Ollice in Boston, by Joseph Marion, and also about thesame period The North American Insurance Company/ whose exact date itappears impossible to obtain. Both of these companies are supposed to havebeen individual enterprises, as no record of their incorporation can be DRAWING FROM AN OLD INSURANCE CERTIFICATE. New York in 1806 organized the Eagle Fire, still extant, and in 1810 Hartfordorganized its pioneer company, The Hartford Fire Insurance Company,*whose importance to us and the public generally we all feel disposed to recog-nize. Mr. Cornelius Walford, of London, in a paper which I had the pleasureof hearing him read before the Middlesex Archaeological Society, made knownthe fact of the existence of mutual fire associations for two centuries or morebefore the great lire in London of 1G6G, while on the continent of Europe indi-vidual underwriting was known as far back as the twelfth century. In hiscurious and interesting article in the Insurance Cyclopaedia on Fire Insurance,he has gathered the early history of fire underwriting into a compact states that the first company really formed in England was in 1680, calledthe Fire Office, afte
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