MUTUAL SERVICE INSURANCE COMPANIES:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Mutual Service Insurance Companies, creator.
	Title:	Mutual Service Insurance Companies records.
	Dates:	1920-1994 (bulk 1943-1994).
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Historical and background materials, financial statements and data, newsletters, brochures, manuals, some rate books, sample insurance policies, information on the company's office buildings, some photographs, a broadside, and miscellaneous programmatic materials of this Arden Hills, Minnesota-based cooperative insurance company.
	Quantity:	1.25 cubic feet (2 boxes and 1 folder in a partial box).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Mutual Service Insurance Companies traces its origins to five small insurance firms: American Farmers Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (founded 1919, Lake Elmo, Minnesota), Cooperators Life Association (Minneapolis), Cooperative Insurance Mutual (Appleton, Wisconsin), Cooperators Life Mutual (Milwaukee), and Central Mutual Fire (Superior, Wisconsin). Through a series of mergers these firms, by 1949, had become the Mutual Service Life Insurance Company and the Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Company, collectively known as Mutual Service Insurance Companies, with headquarters on University Avenue in St. Paul. In 1979, the Mutual Service Insurance Companies adopted the marketing identifier MSI Insurance Companies, and opened a new headquarters building in Arden Hills, Minnesota. In 2000 Mutual Service Insurance Companies became allied with Country Financial, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Mutual Service Insurance Companies Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 16,806

Processing Information:

Processed by: David B. Peterson, November 2013

Catalog ID number: 990077572860104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


Location	Box
153.I.6.6F	1	Histories, undated and 1954, 1984.


		Historical data, undated and 1954-1994.
			Includes fact sheets, clippings, and photographs.


		Advertising scrapbook, 1957. 1 volume.


		Annual meetings, 1956, 1969-1970.


		Brochures, undated and 1952.


		Building Committee records, 1951-1956. 2 folders.
			Includes minutes and correspondence.


		Building dedication, 1978-1979.


		Building ground breaking, 1977.


		Building open houses, 1979-1980.


		Chairman of the Board photographs, 1938-1970.


		Cooperative Insurance Mutual and Cooperators Life Mutual, 1943-1947.


		Cooperators Life Association rate book, 1943-1944.


		Cooperative Life Mutual articles of incorporation, 1958.


		Employee brochures, undated.


		Felix F. Rondeau Library, 1966-1981.
			Correspondence and photographs of the corporate library, dedicated to a long-time employee and president.


		Financial and operating progress summary, 1964-1970.


		Financial and operating statements, 1951-1954.


		Financial statements, 1936, 1942, 1955.


		First claim, 1936.


		First whole life policy to mature: photographs, undated.


		Here at Mutual Service employee handbook, 1963-1973.


		Manager's manual, circa 1959. 2 folders.


		Mutual and cooperative, 1971-1974.
			Includes correspondence and a booklet about the company's history.


		Mutual Service Security Plan rates and values, undated.


		Newsletters, 1951, 1963.
			Single issues of the Crier (March 1951) and Roundtable (October 1963).


		Office Building located at 1919 University Avenue, St. Paul, undated and 1951-1965.


		Policies on relationships with other cooperatives, undated and 1954-1960.


Location	Box
153.I.6.7B	2	President's annual report, 1952-1954.


		Report to policyowners on operations, 1954-1959, 1969.


		St. Paul: saga of an American city: corresondence and photographs, 1977-1978.


		Sample policies, 1920-1955.


		Summary annual reports, 1945-1952, 1964.
			Pocket-size reports containing summary financial data on cooperating mutual companies and associations.


Location	Box
123.J.12.2F-1	3	Cooperation among cooperatives, 1971. 1 broadside.
			Mutual Service was one of the promoters of this program.

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:: Casualty insurance.; Cooperative societies -- Minnesota.; Insurance companies -- Minnesota.; Insurance.; Life insurance.

Organizations:: Cooperators Life Mutual (Milwaukee, Wis.), author.

Document Types:: Broadsides (notices).; Insurance policies.; Photographs.

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MUTUAL SERVICE INSURANCE COMPANIES:

OVERVIEW

HISTORICAL NOTE

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CATALOG HEADINGS