merged into the present Underwriters' Bureau of New England, Mr. Crosby being made secretary and manager, which position he held until 1900, when he resigned to accept the position of general agent with the North British and Mercantile. This position he held for seven years and also organized the Improved Risks Department for that company. Leaving the North British and Mercantile in 1906 his present connection with Brown & Co. was made. He was one of the organizers of the National Fire Protection Association, holding the office of secretary and treasurer for seven years, and later that of chairman of the executive committee. He is one of the National Board's committee of consulting engineers, and an ex-president of the Insurance Society of New York. Also author of "The Hand Book of Fire Protection for Improved Risks," and of a procedure for rating sprinklered risks known as the "Restricted Rating Schedule," and used by the Eastern and Southern rate makers. Is manager of the Independence Inspection Bureau, 137 S. 5th St., Philadelphia, a property owners fire prevention organization. He was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the United States Government National Advisory Board on Fuels and Structural_Materials and is vice-president of the Independence Insurance Company and one of the United States managers of the Century Insurance Company. In addition to the above, in October, 1913, became a member of the New York insurance firm of Willcox, Peck, Brown, & Crosby. CROSBY, UBERTO C., former United States manager Royal Exchange Assurance of London, England, is a native of Mattapoisett, Mass. He entered the office of the Bay State Fire Insurance Company at Worcester as a clerk in 1866. He afterwards became secretary of the company and continued with it until the Boston fire of 1872, when it discontinued business owing to the heavy losses at that time. He then became New England special agent for the Commercial Union Assurance Company of London. He resigned that position in 1883 and became special agent of the Phenix Insurance Company of New York for New England and the Maritime provinces. In September, 1899, he accepted the position of secretary of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, and at the death of its former president was elected to that position in January, 1900. He resigned that position May 1, 1905, to accept the position of United States manager of the Royal Exchange Assurance, London, England. Mr. Crosby retired as manager December 31, 1911, and was appointed a director in the United States. CUNNINGHAM, JOHN L., former president of the Glens Falls Insurance Company, New York, was elected to that office January 20, 1892, succeeding Russell M. Little, deceased. President Cunningham was born at Hudson, N. Y., April 5, 1840. His boyhood was passed on a farm in Essex county, New York, and afterward pursued his legal studies at the Union University Law School at Albany, graduating in 1861 with the degree of LL.B. He practiced law at Essex until he enlisted in the 118th New York Regiment in 1862 and went to the front. He saw a good deal of active service, was for some time provost marshal at Portsmouth, Va., and came out of the war with the rank of major and brevet lieutenantcolonel. On returning home he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Sixteenth Congressional District of New York, which position he resigned to join the field force of the Glens Falls as a special agent. In 1872 Colonel Cunningham was elected secretary of the company, and became virtually its manager. On the death of President Little in 1892 he succeeded to the presidency, and resigned April 29, 1914; but continues unofficial service and remains on board of directors and its executive committee. D DAMON, ALONZO WILLARD, president of the Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company, was born at South Scituate, now Norwell, Mass., February 11, 1847, and was the son of Davis Damon, a descendant of John Damon, one of the early settlers of Plymouth, Mass. His insurance life began as a clerk in the office of the Washington Insurance Company of Boston in 1862. He worked his way up to the secretaryship of that company, and served it in that capacity from 1880 to 1887. The following year he took the New England special agency for the Franklin Fire of Philadelphia, but in 1890 the late President Dunham of the Springfield Fire and Marine sent for him, and offered him the special agency for eastern New England, which he accepted. He was called to the home office as assistant secretary in the winter of the same year, and on the death of President Wright he was, in April, 1895, advanced to the vacant presidency. He was president of the National Board of Fire Underwriters in 1910. DANA, GORHAM, manager of the Underwriters' Bureau of New England, Boston, Mass., was born in Charlestown, Mass., October, 1868. He was educated in the public schools and the Institute of Technology, Boston, from which he graduated with the class of 1892, and after graduation engaged in civil engineering. He was appointed an inspector of the Underwriters' Bureau of New England in 1894 and was appointed to his present position in 1903. He is chairman of the committee on Gravity Tanks and Uniform Requirements of the National Fire Protection Association, and secretary of the Fire Underwriters' Uniformity Association. DARGAN, MILTON, manager of the southern department of the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, is a native of South Carolina. He was born at Sumter in that state, February 22, 1862, and received his collegiate education at Furman University at Greenville, S. C., after which he became a cadet at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. From that institution, in 1883, he went immediately into the fire insurance business at Dallas, Tex., as a clerk in the office of Dargan & Trezevant. Subsequently Mr. Dargan saw much service in the field. He traveled as special agent for Dargan & Trezevant, and afterward secretary of the Association of Fire Underwriters for Texas, with headquarters at Houston, from July, 1887, until the disbandment of the organization, on account of anti-trust law, in 1889; then served the Queen of Liverpool as special agent and adjuster for Texas, Arkansas, and adjacent territory, until January, 1894, when he assumed the man agement of the southern department of the Lancashire. On July 16, 1900, Mr. Dargan was appointed manager of the eastern department of the Lancashire, with headquarters in New York, in addition to the southern department, which had been consolidated with the New York office. He continued in the office until the reinsurance and retirement of the company in 1901, and in 1902 he was appointed to his present position. He is a director of the Royal Indemnity Company of New York, a company organized for general casualty business by the Royal Insurance Company. DAY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, assistant manager, at New York, of the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England, was born in Hertfordshire, England, May 26, 1859. He received an English preparatory college education. In 1876 he came to America with his parents and shortly after entered the service of the National Fire Insurance Company of New York under the tutelage of Mr. Henry H. Hall. In 1881 he became connected with the Royal at its New York office, and in 1888 he was appointed its special agent for western New York, which position he filled for six years. In 1894 he was appointed superintendent of agencies in the New York office of the Royal, which post he held until, on the retirement of Mr. E. F. Beddall from the managership of the New York department of that company and the accession of Mr. C. F. Shallcross as manager in 1900, he was promoted to the position of second assistant manager. On the death of assistant manager Mr. George M. Coit, in 1903, Mr. Day was further promoted to his present office of assistant manager. He is an active worker in the Young Men's Christian Association and prominent in other social, charitable, and religious organizations in the metropolis. He was president of the Suburban Fire Insurance Exchange in 1911. DEATH ROLL OF 1913. The following is a list of persons connected with the fire insurance business who died in 1913: Alexander, James A., fire insurance agent in New York City, died there December 3, aged 86 years. Amonson, Louis S., president of People's National Fire of Philadelphia, died at Newton Pa., from heart failure, April 28. He was a native of Norway and was born at Bergen, July 7, 1869. He was educated in the Latin School at Kristiania, Norway, and began his business career in fire insurance. He was secretary of agencies of the American Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and subsequently vicepresident of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania and Union Insurance Company. He took an active part in the organization of the People's National Fire Insurance Company, and was elected president. He was also a vice-president and director of the United Firemen's Insurance Company, and a director in several of Philadelphia's business and financial institutions. He was active in the fire prevention movement and a frequent lecturer on the fire waste. Anderson, John McC., resident secretary of San Francisco of the North British and Mercantile, died there July 20, from heart failure, aged 43 years. Batre, Lloyd, local agent at Mobile, Ala., died there October 31, from heart disease, aged 52 years. Birdsall, George H., fire insurance agent, died at Scranton, Pa.. January 28. Brooks, Jordan F., insurance agent at Savannah, Ga., died there April 19, aged 64 years. Brooks. Fred S., special agent and adjuster at Detroit, died there August 30, from paralysis. Brown, Joseph S., fire insurance agent at Pittsburgh, died there from uraemic poisoning June 6, aged 66 years. Brown, Vernon H., insurance financier, died in New York, August 5, aged 81 years. Buckingham, Waite B., local agent at Stevens Point, Wis., died there July 31, aged 76 years. Burgwyn, W. S. H., insurance agent at Weldon, N. C., died January 4. Butler, Frederick Warren, New York insurance broker, died at Plainfield, N. J., December 18. Callender, Elliott, insurance agent at Peoria, Ill., died in California, November 30. Campbell, Capt. Alexander F., fire insurance man at Chicago, died there December 23, from paralysis. Chapin, Jos. V., insurance agent at Ogdensburg, N. Y., died there February 17, aged 70 years. Chelgren, Henry A., special agent at Omaha, Neb., died at Sioux City, Ia., from heart disease, April 4. Cheney, John W., fire insurance agent at Camden, N. J., died there December 12, aged 78 years. Clapp, William H., fire insurance agent at Indianapolis, Ind., died there October 28. Crutcher, E. R., local agent at Kansas City, Mo., died there November 24. Dana, Francis, chief Western department examiner National Fire of Hartford, died at Dean, Perry, fire insurance agent, died at Brooklyn, N. Y., September 27. Downing, Jerome F., general agent for the western department of the Philadelphia Underwriters, died at Erie, Pa., June 25, 1913. Mr. Downing was born at Enfield, Mass., March 24, 1827. He was reared on a farm, and reaching manhood entered journalism in his native state; soon after, securing the position of editor-in-chief of the Troy (N. Y.) Daily Post. Having decided to abandon journalism for the law, he became principal of the High School in Carlisle, Pa., studying law while occupying that position, and was admitted to the bar of that place in the spring of 1855, removing the same year to Erie, Pa. He was elected district attorney of the county in 1863, and the following year was appointed general agent for the Insurance Company of North America. In 1872 he became also general agent of the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, and in 1895 Mr. Downing was instrumental in organizing the Philadelphia Underwriters of which he became manager. He retired as general agent of the Insurance Company of North America in 1910, after an unbroken service of forty-six years, but continued as manager of the Philadelphia Underwriters. Duncan, Alfred E., president of the Franklin Fire of Philadelphia, died at Overbrook, Pa., December 3, of debility, aged 49 years. He was born at Boston, in 1864, and began his insurance career there in the office of John C. Paige at the age of fifteen. He was engaged in various capacities in the western insurance field from 1884 until 1890 when he was appointed special agent of the Continental for Utah, Idaho and Montana. In 1806 he became special agent for the Philadelphia Underwriters in the Pennsylvania and Maryland fields, later becoming assistant manager. In 1903 he became special agent of the Phoenix of Hartford for Pennsylvania and Delaware, and represented the company in adjusting its San Francisco losses in 1906. He was elected president of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company in 1908. Early, C. C., insurance agent at Cincinnati, died there from pneumonia, April 13, aged 65 years. |