RETAIL LUMBERMEN'S INTER-INSURANCE EXCHANGE:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Retail Lumbermen's Inter-Insurance Exchange, creator. | |
| Title: | Retail Lumbermen's Inter-Insurance Exchange records. | |
| Dates: | 1894-1988. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Articles of incorporation and bylaws, minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, legal agreements, and photographs documenting a Minnesota corporation that offered reciprocal insurance to Midwestern lumbering concerns. Subscribers to the Exchange defrayed the cost of individual property insurance policies by dividing the annual claims payments among the entire Exchange. | |
| Quantity: | 2.0 cubic feet (2 boxes). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Retail Lumbermen’s Inter-Insurance Exchange began as the Retail Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance Association in 1894. It dropped mutual insurance in 1917, switching to reciprocal insurance. Lumbering concerns of the Midwest subscribed to the Exchange to decrease the cost of a single fire and tornado insurance policy by dividing the claims payments among the entire Exchange for any given year.
Beginning in 1917, Oscar D. Hauschild (via his firm, O. D. Hauschild, Inc.) served as attorney in fact for the Exchange. Invested with power of attorney, Hauschild conducted financial business and attended to legal matters on behalf of the Exchange. O.D. Hauschild, Inc. merged with Lumber Mutual Insurance Company of Massachusetts in 1987.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Retail Lumbermen's Inter-Insurance Exchange Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,187
Processing Information:
Processed by: Christopher G. Welter, April 2010
Catalog ID number: 990071226740104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| 141.F.17.3B | 1 | Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland: contracts, 1917, 1943. | |||||||||
| I.G.A. Mutual Insurance, annual meeting, 1929-1933. | |||||||||||
| Merchants’ Life and Casuality Company, board minute book, 1919-1935. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota Loan and Trust Company, 1917-1925. | |||||||||||
| O. D. Hauschild, Inc.: | |||||||||||
| Appraisal report: Bolin Lumber Company, 1947. | |||||||||||
| Attorney in fact: Retail Lumbermen’s Inter-Insurance Exchange, 1920, 1985. | |||||||||||
| Ledger, 1918-1920. | |||||||||||
| Personnel, 1930s-1944. | |||||||||||
| Receipts/disbursements, 1918-1920. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 148.C.6.7B | 2 | Portraits, undated. 2 items. | |||||||||
| Oscar D. Hauschild; Karl Hauschild, Jr. | |||||||||||
| Retail Lumbermen’s Insurance Association: | |||||||||||
| Articles of association and minutes of meetings, 1894-1910. | |||||||||||
| Articles of incorporation and minutes of meetings, 1910-1929. | |||||||||||
| "Notice to Policy Holders," March 1, 1906. | |||||||||||
| Prohibition of general carpenter work. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 141.F.17.3B | 1 | Statement of condition, 1894. | |||||||||
| Certificate of amendment of certificate of incorporation, 1910, 1913, 1916. | |||||||||||
| Reinsurance documents, 1916-1917, 1981-1983. | |||||||||||
| Expenses ledger, 1918-1920. | |||||||||||
| General ledger, 1920-1930. | |||||||||||
| Retail Lumbermen’s Inter-Insurance Exchange: | |||||||||||
| Certificates of authority, 1917-1919. | |||||||||||
| Subscriber's agreements, undated and 1917, 1926. | |||||||||||
| Financial report, 1929. | |||||||||||
| Ledger, 1933-1960. | |||||||||||
| Historical information, 1937, 1973, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Annual statement paperwork for Canada, 1938-1970. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Insurance licenses, 1949-1953. | |||||||||||
| Annual reports and related documentation, 1921, 1952-1985. | |||||||||||
| Rum River Lumber Company arson case, 1974-1977. | |||||||||||
| Annual meeting minutes, 1975-1976. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 148.C.6.7B | 2 | Advisory Committee minutes of meetings, 1962-1977. | |||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 141.F.17.3B | 1 | Print material, undated. | |||||||||
| Reciprocal insurance information, undated and 1932-1981. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous business records, 1916-1987. | |||||||||||
| Photographs, undated and circa 1970s. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Mostly of unidentified employees; includes some of an unidentified fire. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 148.C.6.7B | 2 | Panoramic photograph, March 3, 1926. | |||||||||
| Northwestern-Central and Northeastern Iowa Retail Lumbermen's convention. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Fire insurance policies -- Middle West.
- Lumbering -- Middle West -- Cost control.
- Property insurance policies -- Middle West.
- Persons:
- Hauschild, Oscar D., 1878-
- Organizations:
- Bolin Lumber Company.
- Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland.
- I.G.A. Mutual Insurance
- Merchants' Life and Casuality Company.
- Minnesota Loan and Trust Company.
- O. D. Hauschild, Inc.
- Retail Lumbermen's Insurance Association.
- Document Types:
- Photographs.
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