Agency sign of the Home Mutual Insurance Company. Fireman's Fund acquired Home Mutual in 1892 and it became the Home Fire and Marine Insurance Company in 1900.
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Reference 5-6-0-3-15, 1104.
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A miners camp and a line of pack mules heading for the gold fields of the Klondike, c. 1898.
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Reference 6-4-2-4-3, 1224.
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- 1890
- The company reinsures the marine business of Anglo-Nevada Assurance Corporation when that company decides to dissolve. It is FFIC's first major growth through the acquisition of the business of another company.
- William Dutton is elected vice president and hires Anglo-Nevada's marine secretary Jacob B. Levison as FFIC's first marine secretary.
- FFIC appeals to agents to push the sale of windstorm insurance.
- 1891
- FFIC takes over the marine business of the Union Insurance Company of San Francisco, one of many companies reinsured by FFIC in the 1890s.
- 1892
- FFIC purchases the Home Mutual Insurance Company. The name is later changed to Home Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
- FFIC reinsures the entire fire and marine liability of the California Insurance Company.
- 1894
- FFIC takes over the Oakland Home Fire Insurance Company.
- 1895
- FFIC establishes the Southern Department in Macon, Georgia with Edgar Wilson, manager. The department is a result of the reinsurance of the Macon Fire Insurance Company.
- J. B. Levison establishes the Atlantic Marine Department in New York and hires Joseph Hadley as manager.
- FFIC absorbs the Sun Insurance Company of San Francisco by reinsuring its entire outstanding business.
- 1898
- Klondike Fever spreads when gold is discovered in Alaska.
- 1899
- October 16: David Staples submits a letter of resignation to the board. William Dutton succeeds him the following year. Bernard Faymonville becomes vice president and J. B. Levison becomes second vice president.
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