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MANNHEIM INSURANCE COMPANY of Mannheim, Germany. F. Herrmann & Co., New York, United States managers Assets, United States branch, December 31, 1913, $954,688.49; liabilities, $649,529.65.

MANN, HENRY R., Pacific coast insurance manager, was born at Marshall, Mich., in 1842, and went to California when but ten years of age. He has been a fire insurance agent thirty-five years. Mr. Mann was vice-president and chairman of the executive committee of the Pacific Insurance Union from its organization in 1885 to 1893, and president in that year.

MANTON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. Organized 1894. Frederick A. Downes, president and treasurer; William M. Burgess, secretary. Admitted assets, December 31, 1913, $346,022.06; liabilities, $191,443.04.

MANUFACTURERS' MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Providence, R. I. Organized 1835. John R. Freeman president and treasurer; Theodore P. Bogert, secretary; Benj. G. Buttolph and Edwin D. Pingree, vice-presidents. Admitted assets, December 31, 1913, $1,117,737.04; liabilities, $461,209.89.

MARINE BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS. [See Boards of Underwriters of New York, Boston Board of Marine Underwriters, Marine Underwriters' Association of San Francisco, Inland Marine Underwriters, and Institute of Marine Underwriters.]

MARINE INSURANCE. The principal companies doing marine insurance business report to the New York insurance department. Their statements of business, where they do both ocean and inland marine insurance, do not show the two classes separately. The following are the aggregates of marine business written in 1913 by twenty-seven fire and fire and marine and four marine companies of the United States, and the United States branches of thirtytwo foreign fire and marine and marine companies; sixty-three companies in all in 1913:

Risks written..
Risks in force.
Premiums written
Losses paid..

$16,174.370,673.00

1,249,124,449.00

17.115.241.38

9,367,310.77

MARINE UNDERWRITERS, INSTITUTE OF. [See Institute of American Marine Underwriters.]

MARKHAM, GEORGE D., senior member in the firm of W. H. Markham & Co. at St. Louis, Mo., was born at New Haven, Conn., July 25, 1859. He was educated at Kinne's School, Ithaca, N. Y., and was graduated from Harvard University with the degree of A.B. in 1881, and from Washington University of St.

Louis with the degree of LL.B. in 1891. He was president of the National Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents from 1900 to 1902. He is director of the St. Louis Business Men's League, the Mercantile Trust Company, the Mercantile National Bank, and the Mercantile Library Association; member of the St. Louis City Council, 1901-5; president of the Civic League 1910.

MARSHALL, JOHN, JR., joint manager of the central department of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco in Chicago, was born at Glasgow, Scotland. He was taken to San Francisco when a youth, and at the age of sixteen years went into the office of the Imperial, London, Northern and Queen Insurance Companies, where he learned the rudiments of the fire insurance business. In 1888 he became fieldman for the Queen, Connecticut Fire and Royal Exchange insurance companies on the Pacific Coast. In 1896 he was placed in charge of the western department of the Royal Exchange with headquarters at Chicago, and early in 1900 was transferred to New York as assistant United States manager for the company last mentioned. In May, 1900, he accepted his present position. In 1908 he was elected president of the Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest and was secretary of the Western Union from 1902 to 1909. In September, 1913, was elected vice-president of the Western Union and in May, 1914, was made sole manager of the central department of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company succeeding the firm of Marshall & McElhone.

MARTIN, FRANK E., secretary of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, Manchester, N. H., is a native of that city, where he was born of American parentage in 1863. He received a public school education, and entered the service of the company as an office boy in 1883, and worked his way up to his present position, traveling through the middle and western states for the company, and being appointed assistant secretary in 1894, with supervision over the western interests of the company, and secretary in 1905.

MARYLAND STATE ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS, was organized at a meeting held in Baltimore in December, 1911. Officers were elected as follows: President, H. A. McComas, Hagerstown; vice-presidents, W. T. Shackelford, W. H. Gibson, Ernest Helfenstein; secretary and treasurer, T. M. Anderson. The present officers elected in February, 1913, are: President, Charles E. Goodwin, Westminster; secretary and treasurer, T. M. Anderson, Sykesville.

MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS was organized at a meeting held in Worcester, October 10, 1906. Officers were elected as follows: President, William Gilmour, Boston; vice-presidents, Fred C. Church, Lowell, C. H. Cornish, New Bedford, W. S. Warriner, Springfield, C. B. Russell, Marlboro, T. H. Raymond, Cambridge; secretary and treasurer, E. P. Ingraham, Worcester. The present officers, elected in

October, 1913, are: President, F. E. Warner of Salem, Mass.; vicepresidents, F. S. Hamlin, T. H. Raymond, A. E. C. Stimson, E. P. Ingraham, E. F. Wood, Charles F. Wilson; secretary and treasurer, Fred A. Norton, Salem; executive committee, B. A. Oppenheimer, Springfield; R. C. Steele, Gloucester; Thomas Kilvert, Lynn; E. Ñ. Slade, Fall River; W. C. Moulton, Pittsfield; L. C. Couch, Taunton; W. S. Shaw, Brockton; Thomas Bevington, Lawrence.

MASSACHUSETTS FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Boston, Mass. The company was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts March 3, 1910, and began business June 18 of the same year with a paid-up capital of $500,000 and a paid-in surplus of equal amount. The organization of the company resulted from a well founded belief that more American capital should be invested in the fire insurance business, and in the organization no stockholder was permitted to subscribe for more than fifty shares of stock. As a result, the company's stock is widely distributed among the leading commercial and financial interests of New England, and is held almost exclusively by New England people. A noteworthy feature was the low organization expense; a fact which received the commendation of several insurance departments; and the Massachusetts department in its report on the examination of the company, as of July 30, 1910, stated: "The company is to be congratulated upon having at so small expense and so expeditiously laid the foundation of what bids fair to be a magnificent business." The company now does business in twenty-three states and its fourth annual statement for the year ending December 31, 1913, showed total assets of $1,369,776.13, and surplus to policyholders of $788,613.48. The officers of the company are: President, Everett C. Benton; vicepresidents, James J. Storrow and Walter B. Henderson; vice-president and general counsel, Guy A. Ham; secretary, Walter Adlard; treasurer, Frank E. Buxton; assistant secretary and general agent, John J. Downey; assistant secretary, Jay R. Benton; directors, Herbert Austin, Hugh Bancroft, Everett C. Benton, Edgar R. Champlin, Robert J. Dunkle, Wilmot R. Evans, Walter S. Glidden, Guy A. Ham, Walter B. Henderson, John T. Hosford, Roland O. Lamb, Edward Lanning, William A. McKenney, Edwin T. McKnight, Edward P. Ricker, Frank L. Ripley, Bernard J. Rothwell, Joseph B. Russell, William G. Shillaber, George E. Smith, James J. Storrow, Lucius Tuttle, Edwin S. Webster.

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE UNION.' This is an organization of domestic mutual fire insurance companies. In June, 1879, a call for a meeting to consider the advisability of forming a union was issued, signed by three of the managers, Charles A. Howland of the Quincy Mutual, E. M. Tucke of the Traders' and Mechanics', and Alfred L. Barbour of the Cambridge Mutual. In response to the call the representatives of seven of the companies appeared, and a temporary organization was made, with H. C. Bigelow as chairman and Alfred L. Barbour as secretary.

On September 10, 1879, the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Union was organized by the choice of E. B. Stoddard of the Merchants'

and Farmers' of Worcester as president, Charles B. Cummings of the Massachusetts Mutual, and George B. Faunce of the Dedham Mutual as vice-presidents, and Alfred L. Barbour of the Cambridge Mutual, secretary. The object of the union, as stated in the preamble, was “to consider all matters affecting mutual companies and adopt all things that will work for the benefit of that system of insurance "for social and fraternal purposes, to the end that peace, harmony, and good fellowship may reign."

The headquarters of the Union are at 141 Milk Street, Boston, and the present officers are: President, James Y. Noyes; vice-presidents, Alfred H. Nash and Charles A. Howland; secretary-treasurer and general inspector, Charles F. Danforth; executive committee, James Y. Noyes, Alfred H. Nash, Charles A. Howland, Burton S. Flagg, Joseph Peabody, Edmund L. Sanders, and Edward M. Tucke. The following companies make up the active membership:

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MASSACHUSETTS STATE FIRE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION was organized in December, 1912. The association in December, 1913, was merged in the Boston chapter of the National Fire Protection Association.

MAXWELL, SIDNEY THORNTON, assistant secretary of the National Fire Insurance Company, Hartford, is a native of Alabama, and was born in Alexander City, April 29, 1878. He was educated in the high school and Bishop Scott Academy, Portland, Ore. and began his insurance career in a local agency at Waco, Tex. He was connected with the general agency of Trezevant & Cochran of Dallas, Tex. as special agent and later as executive special agent, and was called to the home office of the National Fire as executive special agent in 1911. He was elected to his present position in 1912. He is also assistant secretary of the Mechanics and Traders Insurance Company of New Orleans.

MCCORD, JOSEPH, vice-president and secretary of the Hanover Fire Insurance Company, of New York, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Cumberland county of American parentage, March 21, 1847. He received a public school education, and has spent most of his business life in fire insurance. He was elected to his present position in January, 1906.

MCELHONE, F. H., joint manager of the central department of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco, in Chicago, was born April 28, 1859, at Ellenville, N. Y. After leaving school he was several years learning the tanning business, but eventually abandoned it for fire insurance, and in 1885 entered the New York office of the Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Company. He passed considerable time in the service of this company, and in a special agency of the Pennsylvania Fire for Texas and Arkansas, which he resigned in 1890 to enter the service of the Fireman's Fund as special agent for Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, with headquarters at Dallas. In November, 1899, he was made second assistant manager, and in May, 1900, joint manager of the central department of the company. Mr. McElhone died March 13,

1914.

MCGREGOR, PETER DUNCAN, manager of the western department of the Queen Insurance Company, was born at Invernesshire, Scotland, of Scotch parentage, January 13, 1867. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago and started his business career in the office of J. O. Wilson in 1882, and remained with him until the western department of the Union of Philadelphia was taken up in 1885, when he became connected with the western department of the Connecticut Fire, of which he was successively clerk, special agent, assistant manager, and associate manager. He was appointed to his present position in October, 1899. He was president of the Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest in 1900-1901.

McILWAINE, ARCHIBALD G., JR., United States manager of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, and president of the Orient Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., was born at Petersburg, Va., of Scotch-Irish extraction, September 5, 1859. He was educated in the public schools and University School of Petersburg, and in youth entered the service of the Petersburg Savings and Insurance Company, from which he went to the New York Underwriters' Agency, to be its special agent in the south. Subsequently, he was for several years general agent for the London and Lancashire at Atlanta, and in 1893 was called to the New York office to take the position of assistant manager. He succeeded Jeffrey Beavan as manager in 1894.

MCNEIL, NELSON A., fire underwriter, was born at Salisbury, Litchfield county, Conn., July 9, 1852. His education was received at the district schools previous to his fourteenth year, at which time he was given a clerkship in a mining office. He engaged as a local agent in the insurance business in 1874, and at one time had agencies at Bridgeport, New Haven, and Lime Rock, which latter he still retains. He was for three years special agent of the Washington Fire and Marine of Boston and six years of the Niagara Fire, part of which time he also represented the Caledonian for Connecticut.

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