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.
American Legion Section Riverview Burial Park, Lancaster's Original Garden of Memories (Established 1908). This beautiful memorial section, officially dedicated by Post No. 34, is but one of the many outstadning feattures of Riverview, including the Sun Dial Garden, Star Garden, Sunken Garden and Babyland. Age-old trees of unusual beauty and shrubbery and flowers in aboundance have created an exquisite spot dedicated to sacred memories. Delightfule music heard throughout the Cemetery adds to the inspiration.
Provenance
Transferred from Document Collection, Box 19, Folder 5, Item 1
Men at work on unidentified street, town unkonwn, with homes and business on either side and a steeple and cupola in the distance. Real photo postcard.
East High Street, Manheim, Pennsylvania. Here can be seen the restored Fasig house so typical of the old homes of the 1775 period of Manheim. Next to it is the early Manheim Public Building and home of the Hope Hose Fire Company built in 1904. It is now the home of the Manheim Ambulance Association.
Original office of Henry William Stiegel, Manheim, Pennsylvania. "Home of famous Stiegel Glassware" Baron Stiegel's original office was built in 1765 with brick purchased in England, imported to Philadelphia and hauled to Manheim by six-horse team. Torn down in 1920, original bricks are on display at MISSIMER-WEIL MUSEUM "Country Store".
