insurance executive, b. Lowell, Ind. He moved with his parents to Milwaukee in 1883 and attended public schools and business college. As a young man he worked as a railway telegrapher, but in 1895 turned to the life insurance business. He was instrumental in organizing The Old Line Life Insurance Co. of America (1910), and was its president (1910-1933) and chairman of the board of directors (1933-1935). He served in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. E. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); Milwaukee Journal, Aug. 17, 1935; Milwaukee Sentinel, Aug. 18, 1935.Learn More
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