This collection contains documents and record books from the Elizabethtown Insurance Company. Items include records of new policies issued, policies cancelled, reinsurance policies, and books documenting taxes owed to the Elizabethtown Insurance Company. The collection also contains receipt books, personal agent books, and various notes and documents inserted into the lager record books. All documents are handwritten by multiple individuals and some books have missing, or broken spines. Many items are fragile, and caution should be used when turning pages to avoid further tearing and damage.
Admin/Biographical History
The Elizabethtown Insurance Company was formally chartered on December 23, 1843 as Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company. They started doing business January 31, 1844 and by June 1844 had applications from prospective policy holders for enough insurance to issue their first policy. The company was originally developed to insure against loss or damage by fire, but eventually began insuring other types of property damage. Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company moved multiple times; finding homes in Lampeter and Conestoga Townships, as well as Lancaster City. The company moved to Elizabethtown in 1925, and in July of 2009, Farmers' Mutual changed their name to Elizabethtown Insurance Company. In 2011 Elizabethtown Insurance Company stopped accepting new applications, and in 2012, the company relocated to Delaware.
Signers of petition: David Bair, John Bair, George Clark, Alexander Gordon, John W. Kennedy, Charles T. Todd, William E. Smith, William Northamer, William R. Ralston, Jacob Leaman, Gardner Furness, T. W. Housekeeper, William W. Steele, Joshua M. Deaver.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of petition: James Fulton, John Fryberger, Joseph T. Sample, J. F. Miller, R. E. Cochran, John Felix, Evan Green, Peter Haldeman, J. W. Cottrell, Michael Strein, W. F. Caruthers, Thomas V. Caldwell, John H. Brooks, William Atkins, John Arms, Henry B. Eagle, John Evans, Jacob [Luthmore], Christian Mayer.
1 item, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of petition: G. Morison, Samuel Morisson, James Barnes, [ ] Bair, John Watson, Joseph Elliott, John B. McCrabb, Peter Sides, James M. Hopkins, David Bair, Philip Housekeeper, J. W. Housekeeper, Gardner Furness, John McSparran, James M. Steele, Joseph P. Hutton, Fleming McSparran.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of petition: Joseph Earnhart, William E. Ramsay, William Northemer, [G. Clark], Benjamin Blatcher, Henry Rush, J. M. Deaver, E. B. Jefferis, William Phillips, John A. Moore, William Bear, Israel Penrose.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
