Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Service: Being the History of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Special gratitude to the founders we must express for their foresight in the matter of their records. That they were laying mightier foundations than they knew is self-evident; that they believed that a hundred years later there would be hosts of people more than then they could have dreamed of - keenly interested in the formal doings at their meetings is not at all probable. And yet, as though directed by Providence, they chose for their records a good-sized book which contains not only the minutes of their meetings, both stockholders and directors, but also the minutes of the meetings of the stockholders succeeding them, continuously on down to the presentday. Despite the fact that much of the space in the old time was taken up with the resolutions appointing individual agents or surveyors hither and yon, there is still room in the book for the minutes of meetings for many years to come. Daniel Wadsworth said in 1820 that he actually believed that by 1900 Hartford would have a population of It was getting close on toward at the dawn of the new century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
