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    The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire is the oldest property insurance company in the United States. It was...
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  • Benjamin Franklin founded the first American insurance company as Philadelphia Contributionship. In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the...
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  • Shutesbury". The Republican. Retrieved 2015-07-24. "History". The Philadelphia Contributionship. Retrieved 2020-08-24. Mulvey, Jeanette (February 2, 2012)....
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    including the Philadelphia Contributionship (the nation's oldest property insurance company, founded by Benjamin Franklin) and the Philadelphia Saving Fund...
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  • United States in 1752 when Benjamin Franklin established the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses From Loss by Fire. Mutual property/casualty...
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    established the colonies' first fire insurance company in Philadelphia named the Philadelphia Contributionship, as well as its associated Union Volunteer Fire Company...
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  • There are 67 National Historic Landmarks within Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. See also the List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania, which covers...
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    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...
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    Pennsylvania. Vector Security, Inc. traces its roots back to The Philadelphia Contributionship (TPC), founded in part by Benjamin Franklin in 1752. The sister...
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    in the form of perpetual insurance. In 1752, he founded the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire. Franklin's company...
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    Benjamin left his apprenticeship without permission and escaped to Philadelphia. Franklin created a whole background for his character, and explained...
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  • although it was short-lived due to a devastating fire. The Philadelphia Contributionship by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 is the oldest continuing mutual...
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    called fire plaques.) Interior decoration with a collection of Philadelphia Contributionship fire marks. Cast metal four-hand-carry emblems affixed to wooden...
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    in the form of perpetual insurance. In 1752, he founded the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire. Franklin's company...
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    maintaining them. As early as the 1750s, inventor Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia introduced innovations in oil lamp design, such as using two woven wicks...
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    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...
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    heavily debated by all who attended the conference, including the young Philadelphia lawyer Benjamin Chew. Numerous modifications were also proposed by Thomas...
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    Franklin organized the Philadelphia Contributionship to provide fire insurance, which was more successful. The Contributionship adopted "fire marks" to...
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    first hospital in the colonies. In 1752, Franklin organized the Philadelphia Contributionship, the Colonies' first homeowner's insurance company. Between...
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    Company of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospital Academy and College of Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Contributionship Union Fire...
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  • Franklin helped form a mutual insurance company called the Philadelphia Contributionship, which is the nation's oldest insurance carrier still in operation...
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  • 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...
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    secretly in December 1775 with a French intelligence agent who visited Philadelphia undercover as a Flemish merchant.[citation needed] On April 17, 1777...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    1811), born in Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, immigrated to Philadelphia, in the colony of Pennsylvania, where he was a businessman, a marine...
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    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...
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    "Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire", holds its organizational meeting at the courthouse in Philadelphia to...
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    Militia (Philadelphia) (1747) 4th Battalion of Philadelphia County Militia (1776) Philadelphia Brigade of Militia (1747) 2nd Battalion, Philadelphia Associators...
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    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...
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