The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire is the oldest property insurance company in the United States. It was... 7 KB (657 words) - 20:31, 19 March 2024 |
Benjamin Franklin founded the first American insurance company as Philadelphia Contributionship. In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the... 22 KB (1,524 words) - 06:02, 21 December 2023 |
Shutesbury". The Republican. Retrieved 2015-07-24. "History". The Philadelphia Contributionship. Retrieved 2020-08-24. Mulvey, Jeanette (February 2, 2012).... 41 KB (2,113 words) - 17:27, 19 February 2024 |
United States in 1752 when Benjamin Franklin established the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses From Loss by Fire. Mutual property/casualty... 15 KB (1,418 words) - 13:51, 18 February 2024 |
There are 67 National Historic Landmarks within Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. See also the List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania, which covers... 32 KB (124 words) - 16:29, 26 February 2024 |
Pennsylvania Hospital (category Historic American Buildings Survey in Philadelphia) annually until his death in 1765. Stretch was a director of the Philadelphia Contributionship (Hand-in-Hand fire mark) from 1758 to 1761. In the Pennsylvania... 21 KB (2,125 words) - 02:40, 16 March 2024 |
Benjamin left his apprenticeship without permission and escaped to Philadelphia. Franklin created a whole background for his character, and explained... 11 KB (1,683 words) - 00:36, 28 March 2024 |
although it was short-lived due to a devastating fire. The Philadelphia Contributionship by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 is the oldest continuing mutual... 7 KB (866 words) - 14:54, 13 March 2024 |
The Academy and College of Philadelphia (1749-1791) was a boys' school and men's college in Philadelphia in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania... 6 KB (736 words) - 23:00, 1 February 2024 |
Franklin organized the Philadelphia Contributionship to provide fire insurance, which was more successful. The Contributionship adopted "fire marks" to... 56 KB (6,758 words) - 03:54, 9 January 2024 |
Benjamin Franklin (redirect from A Tradesman of Philadelphia) first hospital in the colonies. In 1752, Franklin organized the Philadelphia Contributionship, the Colonies' first homeowner's insurance company. Between... 203 KB (21,868 words) - 10:34, 27 March 2024 |
Company of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospital Academy and College of Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Contributionship Union Fire... 24 KB (2,839 words) - 03:53, 22 March 2024 |
Franklin helped form a mutual insurance company called the Philadelphia Contributionship, which is the nation's oldest insurance carrier still in operation... 26 KB (3,317 words) - 13:51, 9 March 2024 |
Benjamin Franklin Parkway (redirect from Museum District, Philadelphia) the Parkway, is a boulevard that runs through the cultural heart of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city as of 2020. The parkway is named for... 11 KB (1,142 words) - 16:47, 15 March 2024 |
secretly in December 1775 with a French intelligence agent who visited Philadelphia undercover as a Flemish merchant.[citation needed] On April 17, 1777... 60 KB (8,537 words) - 23:28, 14 March 2024 |
Francis Folger Franklin (category People from Philadelphia) inoculation." Francis Folger Franklin was born on October 20, 1732, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (then a colony in British America). He was the oldest legitimate... 17 KB (1,782 words) - 22:26, 30 December 2023 |
16306 The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731... 20 KB (2,641 words) - 05:26, 20 January 2024 |
who kept them at his home in Trevose Manor aside Philadelphia. Upon the occupation of Philadelphia by the British, Galloway's estate was searched and... 58 KB (6,354 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024 |
"Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire", holds its organizational meeting at the courthouse in Philadelphia to... 3 KB (17,538 words) - 12:07, 16 February 2024 |
is currently a Director/Trustee of The Seeing Eye, and The Philadelphia Contributionship (the oldest property insurer in the US). He was also a Founding... 11 KB (996 words) - 03:21, 4 January 2024 |