GERMAN-AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Washington, D. C. Organized 1873; capital, $100,000. Chas. Schafer, president; F. A. Blundon, vice-president; Julius A. Maedel, treasurer; H. H. Bergmann, secretary; G. M. Emmerich, assistant secretary.

GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Baltimore, Md. (See Central Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore.)

GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Peroria, Ill. (See Illinois Fire Insurance Company.)

GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Wheeling, W. Va. (See Wheeling Fire Insurance Company.)

GERMAN MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Covington, Ky. (Name changed to Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1918, which see.)

GERMAN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Cincinnati, Ohio. Organized 1858. J. H. Kohmescher, president; H. A. Rattermann, secretary.

GIRARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. Organized_1853; capital, $500,000. Henry M. Gratz, president; Daniel H. Dunham, Neal Bassett, vice-presidents; Davis G. Vaughan, secretary; Albert H. Hassinger, Henry L. Heite assistant secretaries; John Kay, treasurer. The company is controlled by the Firemen's Insurance Company of Newark. (633 Chestnut Street.)

GLEN COVE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Glen Cove, N. Y. Organized 1837. Richard Downing, president; Daniel J. Hegeman, vice-president; Frederick E. Willets, treasurer; James W. Townsend, secretary; Karl E. Greene, assistant secretary.

GLENS FALLS INSURANCE COMPANY, Glens Falls, N. Y. Organized 1849; capital, $500,000. R. A. Little, president; E. W. West, vice-president; H. N. Dickinson, secretary; Robert C. Carter, treasurer; F. L. Cowles, H. W. Knight, F. M. Smalley, J. A. Mavon, assistant secretaries.

GLOBE AND RUTGERS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY III William Street, New York, N. Y. Organized February 9, 1899; capital, $700,000. E. C. Jameson, president; Lyman Candee, vicepresident; W. H. Paulison, second vice-president; J. H. Mulvehill and W. L. Lindsay, secretaries; J. D. Lester, A. H. Witthohn, and George C. Owens, assistant secretaries; M. J. Volkman, local secretary.

GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY, Pittsburgh, Pa. Organized 1862; capital, $300,000. A. E. Succop, president; A. H. Eckert,

secretary and treasurer; John A. Eckert, vice-president; C. H. E. Succop, vice-president and assistant secretary; C. C. Henry, assist

ant treasurer.

GLOBE NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Sioux City, Iowa. Organized 1918; capital, paid-in, $1,000,000. Edd G. Doerfler, secretary and general manager. (Re-insurance business only.) GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Anthony Klaasen, president; Wm. A. Hahn, secretary; Paul Hoekstra, treasurer.

GRAIN DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COM

PANY, Boston, Mass. Organized 1907. Dean K. Webster, president; Milton L. Cushing, vice-president; A. Shirley Ladd, secretary and treasurer. (177 Milk Street.)

GRANGE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Contoocook, N. H. Organized 1888. Charles W. Varney, president; James E. Shepard, vice-president; Arthur C. Call, secretary; Walter H. Tripp,

treasurer.

GRANITE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Barre, Vt. Organized 1907. James Mackay, president; Albert A. Sargent and H. Wm. Scott, vice-presidents; R. G. Robinson, secretary and treasurer.

GRANITE STATE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Ports

mouth, N. H. Organized 1885; capital, $200,000. Calvin Page, president; Alfred F. Howard, secretary.

GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY of New York, was organized March 7, 1872. Capital stock, $5,000,000; net surplus, December 31, 1918, $10,484,934. The officers are: Charles G. Smith, president; Jesse E. White, vice-president; Edwin N. Cragin, secretary; Alexander R. Phillips, secretary; Wm. H. Kopp, E. S. Archer, R. S. Glass, L. J. Borland, G. E. Krech, H. B. Churchill, assistant secretaries. The western department office is at Chicago, W. H. Sage, general manager; Ingram and Lerch, managers; W. E. Miller, assistant manager. The Pacific Coast office is at San Francisco, George H. Tyson, general agent; Herbert Folger, assistant general agent. The directors are: William N. Kremer, Ralph L. Cutter, Otto L. Dommerich, Herman C. Fleitmann, Eustis L. Hopkins, Woodbury Langdon, Arthur O. Choate, Samuel McRoberts, George W. Perkins, Charles G. Smith, Howard C. Smith, Julius A. Stursberg, Jesse E. White, William Wood, John A. Garver, James A. Stillman, Earl D. Babst. (1 Liberty Street.)

GREAT LAKES INSURANCE COMPANY, Chicago, Ill. Organized in 1917 as the Polonia Fire; began business in 1918; capital, paid up, $200,000. N. L. Piotrowski, president; Albert Wachowski, vice-president; Julius F. Smietanka, secretary; John F. Smulski, treasurer; A. C. Mack, managing underwriter.

GREAT NORTHERN INSURANCE COMPANY, St. Paul, Minn. Organized 1916; capital, paid in, $101,497.50. Albert Berg, president; John Q. Mackintosh, vice-president; Ira C. Peterson, Secretary, and Ned W. Low, Assistant Secretary.

GUARDIAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Salt Lake City, Utah. Organized 1913; capital $200,000.00. D. C. Eccles, president; E. P. Ellison, vice-president; James Pingree, treasurer; G. A. Yocum, secretary. The Agency Company, managers.

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HAILSTORM INSURANCE. The business of insuring growing crops against damage by hail is done by small mutual and township companies, either in conjunction with fire and tornado insurance, or independently, and is now written also by a number of stock companies. As mutual and township companies are not required to report separately the classes of business, the statistics regarding hailstorm insurance, or as it is more commonly designated, hail insurance, are not complete. The following is a statement of the business transacted by stock companies in 1918:

HALL & HENSHAW (William W. Henshaw and Warren F. Goodwin), 49 John St., New York, United States Managers of the Law Union & Rock Insurance Co., Ltd., of London.

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HAMBURG ASSURANCE COMPANY, Hamburg, Germany. Mutzenbecher & Ballard, United States manager, New York, N. Y. Ceased business in November, 1917, under provisions of the Trading with the Enemy" act and the United States branch was liquidated by the insurance bureau of the Alien Property Custodians office.

HAMBURG-BREMEN

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY THE, Hamburg, Germany. The company was required to cease business under the provisions of the “Trading with the Enemy" act in 1917,

14.975

7.590

376,400

311.258

487.387

268,820

$7.641.018

$4,607.958

$9,297,981 $4.831,582

and the United States business was reinsured in the Home Insurance Company of New York in December 1918.

HAMILTON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, New York. Organized 1825; capital, paid-up $200,004; authorized, 500,000. E. C. Jameson, president; Joseph S. Stout, vice-president; Arthur Lenssen, Jr., secretary, 111 William Street.

HAMPSHIRE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Pittsfield, Mass. Incorporated 1830; began business 1832. Henry R. Pierson, president; Robert A. Barbour, secretary and treasurer.

HANOVER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY of New York was organized April 15, 1852, and began business in the same month; capital, $1,000,000. R. Emory Warfield, president; Fred A. Hubbard, vice-president; E. Stanley Jarvis, secretary; Wm. Morrison, assistant secretary, 34-36 Pine Street.

HARTFORD BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS was organized at a meeting held February 29, 1864, and the following companies made up the membership: Etna, Hartford Fire, Connecticut Fire, Phoenix Fire, Charter Oak Fire and Marine, Merchants, North American Fire, New England Fire and City Fire. Officers were elected as follows: President, H. Huntington; vice-president, Thomas A. Alexander; secretary, E. Thomas Lobdell; treasurer, B. W. Green. The present officers elected at the annual meeting in January, 1919, are: President, Guy E. Beardsley; vice-president, W. R. Penrose; treasurer, C. M. Goddard, Boston; executive committee, Silas Chapman, Jr., chairman, Marshall O. Wells, F. A. Morley, C. H. Brigham, and H. W. Seide.

HARTFORD COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Hartford, Conn. Organized 1831. William A. Erving, president and treasurer; Edward F. Harrison, secretary.

HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. The charter of the company was granted at the May session of the General Assembly in 1810, and the company was organized June 27th of that year, with Nathaniel Terry, president, and Walter Mitchell, secretary. It began business in August of the same year. The charter, a perpetual one, authorized a capital of $150,000 in $50 shares. In 1853 the company was authorized to increase its capital to a sum not exceeding $300,000, and to change the par value of its shares to $100. By later amendments the authorized capital was increased to $10,000,000, and in 1906 the paid up capital was increased to $2,000,000. Since its organization the Hartford has received in premiums, $402,364,801.56, and has paid in losses, $223,889,624.15. It has paid since organization $21,420,329 in cash dividends, and $950,000 in stock.