ELIOT FIRE INSURANCE CO.-Inc. 1849. Capital, $200.000. No. 63 State Street. George A. Curtis, Pres.; Wm. M. Lathrop, Sec. EQUITABLE SAFETY MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE CO.-Inc. 1839. Merchants' Exchange. John Clark, Pres.; Saml. Wheeler, Vice-Pres.; J. Theodore Clark, Sec. FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY.-Inc. 1831. Capital, $300,000. No. 75 State Street. Thomas C. Amory, Pres.; Shubael G. Rogers, Sec. FRANKLIN INSURANCE COMPANY. Inc. 1823. Capital, $300.000. No. 44 State Street. William M. Byrnes, Pres.; Edmund B. Whitney, Sec. HOME MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.-Inc. 1859. No. 17 Kilby Street. Closing business. MANUFACTURERS' INSURANCE MERCANTILE MARINE INSUR- NEPTUNE INSURANCE CO.-Inc. N. E. MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.-Inc. 1835. Organized 1843. No. 39 State Street. Willard Phillips, Pres.; Benjamin F. Stevens, Sec. (See Advertising department, page 24.) N. E. MUTUAL MARINE INSUR- SHOE AND LEATHER DEALERS STATE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.-Inc. 1843. No. 27 State Street. Pelham Bonney, Pres.; Leonard B. Adams, Sec. SUFFOLK FIRE INSURANCE CO- TRADERS' MUTUAL FIRE INSUR- UNION MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE Enoch Hobart, Pres.; George G. Field, Sec. UNION MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., of Augusta, Me.-Incorp. 1848. Capital, $750.000. Directors' Office, 68 State Street. Henry Crocker, Pres. ; Whiting H. Hollister, Sec. (See Advertising department, page 24.) UNITED STATES INSURANCE CO.Inc. 1825. Capital, $200,000. No. 74 State Street. Robert B. Williams, Pres. ; Joshua H. Davis, Sec. WASHINGTON INSURANCE CO.Inc. 1824. Capital, $300,000. No. 72 State Street. Isaac Sweetser, Pres. ; Benjamin Sweetser, Sec. COUNTRY INSURANCE COMPANIES. ABINGTON MUTUAL FIRE, Abington. -Inc. 1856. Baxter Cobb, Pres.; John N. Noyes, Sec. ADAMS MUTUAL FIRE INS., Adams. -Inc. 1851. Sanford Blackinton, Pres. ; Wm. P. Brayton, Sec. ASHFIELD MUTUAL, Ashfield. H. S. Ranney, Pres.; A. E. Brunson, Sec. ATLANTIC MUTUAL FIRE & MARINE, Provinctown.-Inc. 1854. Joshua Paine, Pres.; Enos Nickerson, Sec. ATTLEBOROUGH MUTUAL FIRE, Attleboro'.-Inc. 1836. John Daggett, Pres.; Samuel Carpenter, 2d, Sec. BARNSTABLE COUNTY MUTUAL FIRE, Yarmouth Port.-Incorp. 1833. Zenas D. Bassett, Pres.; Amos Otis, Secretary. BAY STATE FIRE, Worcester.-Commenced 1861. Chas. L. Putnam, Pres.; Edward R. Washburn, Sec'y. Capital stock paid in, $104.300. BERKSHIRE LIFE, Pittsfield. - Inc. 1851. Thos. F. Plunkett, Pres.; Benj. Chickering, Sec. Capital, $100,000. BERKSHIRE MUTUAL FIRE, Pittsfield. Inc. 1835. Walter Laflin, Pres.; John A. Walker, Sec. BEVERLY, Beverly.-Inc. 1853. Mich'l Whitney, Pres.; Robert G. Bennett, Secretary. BOOT & SHOE MANUFAC. MUTUAL, Lynn.-Inc. 1851. Wm. Bassett, Pres.; Valentine Meader, Secretary. CAMBRIDGE MUTUAL FIRE, Cambridgeport.-Inc. 1833. Josiah W. Cook, Pres.; Henry Thayer, Secretary. Springfield. Pres.; Ira Cleveland, Secretary. DORCHESTER MUTUAL FIRE, Neponset Village. · Inc. 1855. Asaph Churchill, Pres.; Wm. F. Temple, Sec. EQUITABLE MUTUAL MARINE, Provincetown. Inc. 1845. Thomas Hiliard, Pres.; Nathan D. Freeman, Sec. ESSEX MUTUAL FIRE, Salem.-Inc. 1829. George Nichols, Pres.; John H. Nichols, Sec. FAIRHAVEN MUTUAL MARINE, Fairhaven.-Inc. 1855. F. R. Whitwell, Pres.; John A. Hawes, Sec. FALL RIVER MUTUAL FIRE, Fall River.-Nath'l Borden, Pres.; Benj. F. Winslow, Sec. FARMERS' MUTUAL FIRE, Georgetown. Inc. 1844. Sam'l Little, Pres.; William Boynton, Sec. FITCHBURG MUTUAL FIRE, Fitchburg. Inc. 1847. Nath'l Wood, Pres.; Abel Thurston, Sec. FRANKLIN MUTUAL FIRE, Green- GRANBY MUTUAL, Granby.-Charles HAMPDEN FIRE, Springfield. Inc. Inc. 1857. Sam'l S. Day, Pres.; Sanford J. Hall, Secretary. MERCHANTS' MUTUAL MARINE, Newburyport.-Inc. 1857. Wm. Graves, Pres.; Joseph J. Knapp, Sec. MERCHANTS' & FARMERS' MUT'L FIRE, Worcester. Inc. 1846. Isaac Davis, Pres. ; John D. Washburn, Secretary. MERRIMAC MUTUAL FIRE, Andover.-Inc. 1828. Samuel Merrill, Pres.; Samuel Gray, Sec. MIDDLESEX MUTUAL FIRE, Con- MUTUAL MARINE, New Bedford.— NEWBURYPORT MUTUAL FIRE, OCEAN, Harwich, Nehemiah D. Kelly, Pres.; J. K. Baker, jr., Sec. OLD COLONY FIRE AND MARINE, Plymouth.-Inc. 1835. Wm. Nelson, Pres.; Wm. S. Danforth, Sec. PACIFIC MUTUAL, New Bedford,Inc. 1856. Gideon Allen, Pres.; Benj. T. Ricketson, Sec. PEOPLE'S EQUITABLE MUT. FIRE, Taunton.-Incorp. 1848. Albert Field, Pres.; Philip E. Hill, Sec. PEOPLE'S MUTUAL FIRE, Worcester. Inc. 1847. Henry Chapin, Pres. ; Augustus N. Currier, Secretary. PLYMOUTH COUNTY MUTUAL, Plymouth.-Inc. 1828. Wm. T. Davis, Pres.; John T. Hall, Sec. QUINCY MUTUAL FIRE, Quincy. SALEM MUTUAL FIRE, Salem-Inc. 1838. John H. Nichols, Pres.; Charles S. Nichols, Sec. SALISBURY & AMESBURY MUT'L Inc. 1852. Harmon Hall, Pres.; Wilbur F, Newhall, Sec, SOUTH DANVERS MUTUAL FIRE, South Danvers.-Incorp. 1829. Henry Cook, Pres.; George A. Osborne, Sec. SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE, Springfield. Inc. 1851. Edm'd Freeman, Pres.; Wm. Conner, Jr., Sec. SPRINGFIELD MUTUAL FIRE ASSURANCE, Springfield. Inc. 1827. Elijah Blake, Pres.; L. Gorham, Sec. STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, Worcester. Inc. 1845. Isaac Davis, Pres.; Clarendon Harris, Sec. (See advertising department, page 24.) TRADERS & MECHANICS', Lowell, -Inc. 1848. Charles B. Coburn, Pres. ; Edward F. Sherman, Sec. TRITON, Chatham.-Joshua Nickerson, President. UNION MUTUAL MARINE, New Bedford.-Inc. 1851. Thos. S. Hathaway, Pres.; Borden Wood, Sec. WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, Pittsfield. Inc. 1852. Ensign H. Kellogg, Pre; John C. Goodrich, Sec. WESTFIELD MUTUAL FIRE, Westfield. Inc. 1853. Edward B. Gillett, Pres.; Asa P. Rand, Sec. WESTFORD MUTUAL, Westford. Zaccheus Reed, Pres.; John Cutter, Secretary. WEST NEWBURY MUTUAL FIRE, WHATELY MUTUAL FIRE, Whately. INSURANCE COMPANIES IN OTHER CITIES, Having Agencies in Boston. ETNA INSURANCE CO. Of Hartford, Conn. INCORPORATED, 1819. CASH CAPITAL, $1,500,000. SURPLUS, OVER $500,000. Edwin G. Ripley, President. Thos. A. Alexander, Vice-President. L. J. Hendee, Secretary. A. A. Williams, Adjuster. Samuel Tudor, Joseph Church, Robert Buell, Ebenezer Flower, E. A. Bulkeley, Roland Mather, E. G. Ripley, S. S. Ward, Henry Z. Pratt, Austin Dunham, G. F. Davis, D. Hillyer, Thos. A. Alexander, Walter Keney, Charles H. Brainard, Wm. F. Tuttle, Directors. Farnham Plummer, Agent, No. 2 Union Building, 40 State Street, Boston. BERKSHIRE LIFE INS. CO. CASH PAID UP CAPITAL, $100,000; Ac- T. F. Plunkett, James Francis, George J. Tucker, Theo. Pomeroy, L. H. Gamwell, Thomas G. Carson, Henry S. Briggs, Geo. H. Phelps, Wm. C. Plunkett, Wm. Pollock, Elias Merwin, Phinehas Allen, Jr., Chas. M. Owen, A. H. Pease, P. L. Page, S. Blackinton, Samuel Ingalls, W. M. Root, A. C. Russell, Henry Clark, Henry Stearns, Josiah Carter, Directors. Office, Lynn Mechanics Bank Building, Lynn. The risks taken by this Company, besides Dwelling Houses and out-buildings with their contents, are confined exclusively to Buildings and Merchandise connected with the BOOT, SHOE AND LEATHER TRADE. Wm. Bassett, Pres. Valentine Meader, Sec. J. E. Westgate, General Agent, and Agent for other responsible Companies. Office, No. 17 Kilby St., Boston. CHARTER OAK LIFE INS. CO. Of Hartford, Conn. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $750,000. James C. Walkley, Pres. Thomas W. Russell, Vice-Pres. Samuel H. White, Sec. Arthur Merrill, Agent, 27 State Street. CITY FIRE INSURANCE CO. Of New Haven, Conn. CHARTERED CAPITAL, $500,000. PAID UP CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $320,000. Wells Southworth, Pres. James F. Babcock, Vice-Pres. Levi B. Bradley, Sec Policies issued at current rates. Losses equitably adjusted, and promptly paid. Cowles, Brown & Co., Boston Agents, 39 State Street (Room No. 2). CONNECTICUT FIRE INS. CO. Of Ilartford, Conn. CASH CAPITAL, $200,000, WITH LARGE SURPLUS. Benj. W. Greene, Pres. John B. Eldredge, Sec. Arthur Merrill, Agent, 27 State Street. CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. Established at Hartford, Conn. Incorporated by the Legislature of Conn., 1846. ACQUIRED CAPITAL, $4,000,000. Edwin Ray, General Agent. Office, 20 State Street. James Goodwin, Pres. Guy R. Phelps, Sec. Chs. G. Putnam, M. D., Physician. James Goodwin, Edwin D. Tiffany, Mason Gross, Edward B. Watkinson, John C. Palmer, Zephaniah Preston, N. M. Waterman, Edward W. Parsons, Henry Perkins, Guy R. Phelps, Hartford; David Wilder, jr, Boston; Chas. Dennis, New York,-Directors. (See also Advertising Department, page 24.) CONTINENTAL INS. CO. Of New York City. CASH CAPITAL, $500,000, WITH LARGE SURPLUS. George T. Hope, Pres. H. H. Lamport, Sec. Arthur Merrill, Agent, 27 State Street. DORCHESTER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Of Dorchester, Mass. Boston Office, No. 1 Phoenix Building. INCORPORATEd, 1855. A. Churchill, Pres. W. F. Temple, Sec. John H. Robinson, Treas. DORCHESTER FIRE INS. CO. Of Dorchester, Mass. Boston Office, No. 1, Phoenix Building. CASH CAPITAL, $100,000. A. Churchill, Pres. and Treas. W. F. Temple, Sec. FULTON FIRE INS. COMPANY. New York City. W. A. Cobb, Pres. Alexander Studwell, Vice-Pres. James M. Rankin, Sec. Andrew B. Hodges, Edward Strong, Grahams Polley, Thomas C. Moore, Thos. M. Clark, James S. Bearns, Edwards W. Fisk, Philip S. Crooke, George Barnes, L. W. Ufford, George T. Cobb, J. M. Furman, Alex. Studwell, John L. Everett, E. Livermore, James Moore, John J. Crane, George W. Prince, M. Kalbfleisch, William A. Cobb, John Moore, Jared Sparks, James L. Morgan, Eli Robbins, James B. Taylor, J. V. Schoonmaker, Julius A. Durkee. Charles B. White, A. J. Allaie, Richard Raynor, William Mulligan, A. S. Foster, M. F. Hodges, B. Blanchard, A. C. Tefft, W. L. Conklin, Seymour L. Husted, Charles E. Smith, O. W. Brenan, Robert Slimmon, Directors. Dobson & Jordan, Agents, 46 State Street. HARTFORD FIRE INS. CO. INCORPORATED, 1810. CASH CAPITAL, $500,000. SURPLUS, OVER $100,000. H. Huntington, Pres. T. C. Allyn, Sec. C. C. Lyman, Assist. Sec. Wm. N. Bowers, Adjuster. H. Huntington, Albert Day, James Goodwin, Charles Boswell, Henry Keney, Calvin Day, Job Allyn, John P. Brace, Charles J. Russ, Directors. Farnham Plummer Agent, 2 Union Building, 40 State Street, Boston. HOME INSURANCE CO. 112 and 114 Broadway, New York. CASH CAPITAL, $1,000,000. Charles J. Martin, Pres. A. F. Willmarth, Vice-Pres. John McGee, Sec. We select the following references by permission: C. H. Parker, Esq., firm of A. &. A. Lawrence & Co.; H. K. Horton. Esq., firm of F. Skinner & Co.; S. R. Payson, Esq., firm of J. C. Howe & Co.; H. Callender, Esq., firm of Henry Callender & Co.; Messrs. James M. Beebe & Co.; Messrs. Dana, Farrar & Hyde. This Company (the capital having_all been paid in) will insure Woollen and Cotton Factories and other Buildings, Merchandise, Household Furniture, and Personal Property generally, against loss or damage by fire, on favorable terms. Dobson & Jordan, Agents, No. 46 State Street, Boston. HOWARD FIRE INS. CO. Insures against hazards by fire, on the Lowell Office, 234 Central, cor. of Middle Street. (First Floor, Old Post Office Building.) Cowles, Brown & Co., Boston Agents, 39 State Street, Room No. 2. HUMBOLDT FIRE INS. CO. Of the City of New York. CASH CAPITAL, $200,000. John Rankin, Pres. William Mulligan, Sec. Alexander Wiley, Jr., Assist. Sec. Samuel P. Holmes, Anson G. Phelps, Charles Christmas, George H. Ellery, Alfred Large, Walter S. Griffith, J. S. T. Stranahan, Lowell Holbrook, Robert Boorman, Samuel Sloan, Joshua H. Bates, A. B. Strange, C. B. Caldwell, W. H. McConnell, James McKaye, S. Nelson Davis, Geo. W. Parsons, William L. King, William A. Kobbe, George Bulpin, Nathan Lane, Solomon Freeman, Ebenezer Beadleston, Moses A. Hoppock, William C. Bowers, Willard M. Newell, Henry J. Baker, George Barnes, William Allen, John Armstrong, Edward Bridge, Henry L. Burr, D. R. Stanford, Andrew Comstock, W. D. Thompson, Directors. Dobson & Jordan, 46 State Street, Boston, Agents. LAFAYETTE FIRE INS, CO. Of New York. CASH CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $175,000. T. I. Bergen, Pres. J. B. Thompson, Jr., Sec. Policies issued at current rates. Losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid. Cowles, Brown & Co., Boston Agents, 39 State Street, Room No. 2. METROPOLITAN FIRE INSURANCE CO. CASH CAPITAL, $300,000. Office, No. 108 Broadway, New York. This Company insures Buildings, Merchandise, and Personal Property generally, against loss or damage by fire. The attention of insurers is called to the "participation" system adopted by this company, by which the insured receives seventy-five per cent. of the net profits. and which will result in a return (in scrip bearing interest) of a large portion of the premium; while the stability of the company is also greatly increased thereby. James Lorimer Graham, President. Edward A. Stansbury, Secretary. Uzziah Wenman, Surveyor. Boston References.-Thomas C. Smith; Charles W. Cartwright; John M. Forbes; Lyman Nichols; Almy, Patterson, & Co.; Denny, Rice, & Co.; Butler & Sise; Jewett, Tibbetts, & Co.; J. E. Thayer & Brother. Boston Office, 46 State Street, Dobson & Jordan, Agents. MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE CO. Newark, New Jersey. ASSETS, November 1, 1861, $1,104,572.10. Robert L. Patterson, President. Lewis C. Grover, Vice-President. Benjamin C. Miller, Secretary. Joseph B. Jackson, M. D. Medical Adpiser, Newark. James Stewart, Medical Adviser, N. Y. Boston References. A. & A. Lawrence & Co.; James M. Beebe & Co.; Blanchard, Sherman, & Co.; Levi Bartlett & Co.; D. B. Stedman & Co.; Gardner Brewer & Co.; Vernon Brown & Son; Hon. Stephen Fairbanks (Treasurer Western Railroad); Hon. Charles G. Loring (Mass. Hospital Life Ins. Co.); Hon. N. A. Thompson; Hon. Homer Bartlett; Charles W. Cartwright, Esq. (Manufacturers Ins. Co.); J. W. Balch, Esq. (Boylston Ins. Co.); Ezra Farnsworth, Esq. (Parker, Wilder, & Co.); Luther Dana, Esq. (Dana, Farrar, & Hyde); William D. Coolidge, Esq.; Watson Freeman, Esq. (late U. S. Marshal); Anson Dexter, Esq. (Dexter, Lambert, & Co.); Hon. Henry Wilson, (U. S. Senator); Joseph W. Clark, Esq. (Clark, Cheney, & Co.); Joseph White, Esq. (Cashier Atlas Bank); L. A. Huntington, Esq.; E. E. Manton, Esq. (Manufacturers' Mutual Ins. Co.); John B. Parker, (Treasurer Eastern Railroad); Peter C. Jones, Esq.; Col. Elijah D. Brigham; Seldon Crockett, Esq.; John B. Turner, Esq. D. Humphreys Storer, M. D., Medical Examiner. Dobson & Jordan, Agents, No. 46 State Street, Boston. MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. Of New York. OFFICE, No. 94 BROADWAY. For the year ending January 31, 1862. The business of this Company is conducted on the mutual principle, in the strictest sense of the term; the entire surplus, deducting necessary expenses alone, being equitably divided among the assured. Present accumulated cash assets, the property of the Assured, $8,000,000. Policies are issued for life, payable at the death of the assured party. Also, Endowment Assurance Policies payable when the party assured attains a certain age; or at his death, in case that event should occur before the expiration of the term of the policy. Also, Endowment Policies for children, payable when the child attains the age of 18, 21, or 25 years or upwards, either with or without the return of the whole premium paid, in case the party assured does not attain the age specified. |