The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . er the Leavenworth (Kan.) general agency, con-trolling thirteen states and territories, and has sincefollowed the business. He has made many valuableand interesting contributions t
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . er the Leavenworth (Kan.) general agency, con-trolling thirteen states and territories, and has sincefollowed the business. He has made many valuableand interesting contributions to life-insurance litera-ture, which added greatly to his reputation as anexpert, and led to marked changes in the modernmethods of agency work in the leading companiesand the larger agencies. In January, 1881, he ac-cepted the appointment as special western agent,tendered by the Northwestern mutual life insur-ance company. His success was at once pronounced,and almost phenomenal. In 1883 he removed toNew York city as the representative of this com-pany, and in two years placed upon the books ofthat agency an amount in premiums exceeding thepermanent results of eighteen years of effort byformer managers. During his residence in NewYork he has instituted radical reforms in the generalbusiness of life insurance. His business methodsare new and original, and his oflSce one of the most 280 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. t^^^Um. perfect schools of practical life insurance in thecountry. While conducting a very large businessMr. Bristol still finds time to devote to life-insuranceliterature something in the way of scientific pur-suits—a painting, an invention, or an occasionalpoem, his writings appearing in the papers underthe nom deplume of J. I. D. B. HALL, James, paleontologist, was horn atHingham, Mass., Sept. 13, 1811. He was graduatedwith distinction from the Rensselaer polytechnicinstitute at Troy, N. T., where he studied naturalhistory under Prof. Amos Eaton, and afterwardbecame
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