MECHANICS' AND TRADERS' FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -48 Wall St. Chartered April, 1853. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 25 dollars. Dividends, January and July. Walter Underhill, President. James R. Lott, Secretary. MERCANTILE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-65 Wall Street. Organized January 17th, 1852. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, January and July. William A. Thomson, President. MERCHANTS' FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. wich streets. Organized 1850. Capital, $200,000. January and July. John Baker, Secretary. Corner Fulton and Green Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, J. L. Douglass, Secretary. C. V. B. Ostrander, President. Incorporated October, 1852. Dividends, May and November. James L. Graham, President. Capital, $300,000. Shares, 100 dollars. Edward A. Stansbury, Secretary. NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. - 52 Wall Street. Incorporated 1838. Capital, $200,000. Shares, $37 50. Dividends, January and July. Thomas W. Thorne, President. Henry T. Drowne, Secretary. NEW AMSTERDAM FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -7 Wall Street. Organized April 15th, 1853. Dividends, January and July. David S. Manners, President. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 25 dollars. William H. Dusenbury, Secretary. NEW WORLD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -35 Pine Street. Organized October, 1856. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Divi dends, January and July. Thomas A. Emmet, President. Samuel A. Patterson, Secretary. NEW YORK EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-58 Wall Street. Chartered April 20th, 1823. $210,000. Shares, 35 dollars, Richard J. Thorne, President. Renewed in 1836, for 30 years. Capital, NEW YORK FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. -72 Wall Street. O. H. Jones, President. D. Underhill, Secretary. NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -67 Wall Street. Incorporated August 1st, 1850. Capital, $200,000. 4,000 shares, 50 dollars each. Dividends, February and August. Jonathan D. Steele, President. L. G. Irving, Secretary. NORTH AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -6 Wall Street. Incorporated January 1st, 1836. Capital, $250,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, June and December. James W. Otis, President. R. W. Bleecker, Secretary. NORTH RIVER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Shares, 25 dollars. Dividends, April and October. John Hegeman, Secretary. PACIFIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-Broadway, cor. of Grand Street, and 72 Wall Street. Chartered April 29th, 1851. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 25 dollars. Dividends, January and July. Thomas F. Jeremiah, Secretary. PARK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, -Cor. Park Place and Broadway. Incorporated January 27th, 1853, for 20 years. Capital, $200,000, Shares, 100 dollars. Dividends, January and July. Josiah W. Baker, President. William Jaffray, Secretary. PEOPLE'S FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Cor. Canal and Thompson streets. Incorporated April, 1851. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, January and July. Richard Varick, President. PETER COOPER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-Third Avenue, corner of Ninth Street, and 61 Wall Street. William T. Underhill, Secretary. Incorporated April, 1853. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 20 dollars. Divi dends, February and August. Nathan C. Ely, President. William H. Riblet, Secretary. PHENIX FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. - 62 Wall Street, and 345 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Stephen Crowell, President. Chartered September, 1853. Capital, 200,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, March and September. RELIEF FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -8 Wall Street. Philander Shaw, Secretary. ST. MARK'S FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-67 Wall Street. Organized 1853. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 25 dollars. Dividends, February and August. John M. Ferrier, President. Washington Post, Secretary. ST. NICHOLAS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -10 Merchants' Exchange, and 14th Street, corner of 8th Avenue. Organized 1852. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 25 dollars. Dividends, February and August. William Winslow, President. William S. Slocum, Secretary SECURITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -31 Pine Street. Organized June 16th, 1856. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, January and July. Thomas W. Birdsall, Secretary. STUYVESANT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-153 Bowery, and 4 Broad St. Organized January, 1851. Dividends, February and August. Frederick R. Lee, President. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 25 dollars. Benjamin J. Pentz, Secretary. UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-69 Wall Street. Chartered April 1st, 1824. Expires 1866. Capital, $250,000. Shares, 25 dollars. Dividends, January and July. Abraham S. Underhill, President. James Wilkie, Secretary. WASHINGTON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.-54 Wall Street. Incorporated February 6th, 1850. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, January and July. George C. Satterlee, President. Henry Weston, Secretary. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN BROOKLYN. ATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. -Offices, 172 Atlantic Street, Brooklyn, and 14 Wall Street, New York. Chartered in 1851. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 100 dollars each. Dividends, March and September. John D. Cocks, President. Horatio Door, Secretary. BROOKLYN INSURANCE COMPANY. -Offices, 11 Court Street, Brooklyn, and Merchants' Exchange, New York. Chartered in 1824. Capital, $102,000. Shares, 17 dollars each. Divi dends, February and August. Wm. Ellsworth, President. CITIZENS' INSURANCE COMPANY OF Grand Street, Brooklyn (E. D.), and Chartered in 1836. Capital, $150,000. dends, June and December. Wm. S. Leggett, Secretary. WILLIAMSBURGH. - Offices, 18 67 Wall Street, New York. Shares, 20 dollars each. Divi FULTON INSURANCE COMPANY. -Offices, 43 Grand Street, Brooklyn (E. D.), and 40 Wall Street, New York. Chartered in 1853. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 25 dollars each. Dividends, April and October. LA FAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BROOKLYN. - Offices, 347 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, and 14 Wall Street, New York. Chartered in 1856. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 50 dollars each. Dividends, January and July. John H. Funk, President. Anson S. Palmer, Secretary. THE NASSAU FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BROOKLYN. - Offices, 10 Court Street, Brooklyn, and 12 Merchants' Exchange, New York. Chartered in 1852. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 50 dollars. Dividends, July and January. Wm. M. Harris, President Abraham J. Beekman, Secretary. LONG ISLAND INSURANCE COMPANY. -Offices. 41 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, and 48 Wall Street, New York. Chartered in 1833. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 50 dollars each. Dividends, January and July. B. W. De Lamater, President. Wm. W. Henshaw, Secretary. MECHANICS' FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. - Offices, No. 1 Montague Street, Brooklyn, and 33 Wall Street, New York. Chartered May, 1857. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 50 dollars each. Dividends, semi-annually. Daniel Chauncy, President. Walter Nichols, Secretary. MONTAUK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BROOKLYN. -Offices, 7 Court Street, Brooklyn, and 60 Wall Chartered in 1857. Capital, $150,000. dends, January and July. John J. Studwell, President. Street, New York. Edwin Beers, Secretary. PHENIX FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BROOKLYN. - Offices, 345 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, and 60 Wall Street, New York. Chartered in September, 1853. Capital, $200,000. Shares, 50 dollars each. Dividends, September and March. Stephen Crowell, President. Philander Shaw, Secretary. WILLIAMSBURGH CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. - Offices, South 7th Street, corner First Street, Brooklyn (E. D.), and 67 Wall Street, Incorporated March, 1853. Capital, $150,000. Shares, 50 dollars each. Dividends, January and July. Richard Ten Eyck President. Hubert Giroux, Secretary. ALBANY INSURANCE COMPANY. - 56 State Street. Incorporated March 5, 1811-charter extended in 1828 and 1851; ex. pires 1881. Capital, $125,000. Shares, 25 dollars each. Dividends, Jan. uary 15 and July 15. Teunis Van Vechten, President. Gerrit Y. Lansing, Vice-President. Stephen Groesbeeck, Secretary. NORTH-WESTERN INSURANCE COMPANY. -Oswego, N. Y. Incorporated April, 1832, and charter extended in 1856 to January, 1877. Capital, $150,000. James Platt, President. S. B. Ludlow, Secretary. STAR INSURANCE COMPANY. --Ogdensburgh, N. Y. James G. Hopkins, President. F. Phelan, Secretary. INCOME INSURANCE COMPANY. Located in the City of New York. Incorporated in 1858. The capital stock is $100,000, divided into shares of 10 dollars each. In addition to the powers vested in such associations by the Revised Statutes, this Company has the right to make insurance upon the payments of rents to accrue from the letting of real or leasehold estate; to insure or guarantee the prompt payment of interest on bonds secured by mortgage, and to let or re-let any premises, the rent of which is insured by this corporation. This Company, also, is empowered to establish classes for an "Accumulating Fund," whereby the sums paid in, with the interest accruing, shall, after a term of years not to exceed twenty, be divided in equal shares among the surviving subscribers, or the interest upon which may be paid annually or semi-annually, as may be agreed. Such fund shall always be invested in bonds secured upon unincumbered real estate, or in public stocks. It has also a right to make loans on bond or mortgage. NAME. MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES. EXCLUSIVE OF THOSE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Location. Capital. President. Secretary. Agricultural... Watertown.. $114,150 J. A. Sherman. Isaac Munson. Chautauque Co... Fredonia.... 55,208 R. Walworth.. S. Hart. Dutchess Co..... Poughkeepsie 1,426,313 Jas. Mabbett.. L. Dodge. Empire.. Union Sp's... Farmers' Meridian.... 143,249 B. Peck....... R. M. Little. PEOPLE'S LOAN AND RELIEF COMPANY, of the City of New York. Incorporated in April, 1858. The Company has the power to organize with a capital of $250,000, and is made a close corporation for three years. Provision is made for the sale of articles in the pawnbroker's department, and the company is authorized to hold real estate for certain purposes. It gives to the corporators, in addition to the powers conferred by law upon corporations, the power to loan money in any sum upon a pledge of personal property, and to charge interest thereon at the rate of fifteen per cent. per annum on all sums under fifty dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars twelve and one half per cent., and beyond this amount nine per cent. per annum, and to receive money on deposit, not allowing over seven per cent. per annum, furnishing to each depositor a pass-book or certificate of the name of the depositor and the amount of the deposit, the time of the loan, and the rate of interest agreed to be paid by the company. |