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History of Marshall Mutual Insurance Company
Marshall
Mutual Insurance Company is one of the oldest continuous business operations in
Clark County. Marshall Mutual
Insurance held its first meeting in Clark County on March 18, 1889.
The company was first called the Darwin Township Mutual Fire Insurance
Company and was organized to provide protection from fire and lightning losses
in Darwin, Anderson, and Wabash Townships. The
first Board of Directors consisted of: S.D.
Coldren, Samual Rudy, F.W. Stump, The
first claim paid by the new insurance company was paid on August 12, 1889 to
Fred Leucht who was the holder of policy #57.
The claim was for a cow killed by lightning and a total of $15 was paid
to Mr. Leucht. On
December 30, 1889 the books of the Darwin Township Mutual Fire Insurance Company
showed an income for the year of $212.75 with expenses of $169.27.
The company had 72 policies on the books with $62,190 of insurance
coverage in force. On
February 18, 1891 the company held its first meeting in Marshall and changed its
name to Marshall Mutual County Fire Insurance Company.
Prior to this date they could only write insurance in Darwin, Anderson,
and Wabash Townships. With the February 1891 meeting the charter was changed which
allowed the company to write insurance in all townships in the county. The
company continued to operate as a county mutual insurance company until 1953.
At that time, the company expanded to write coverage in Edgar, Coles, and
Cumberland counties. In 1956
another expansion took place as the company began to write coverage in Crawford
and Jasper counties. The
Marshall office has existed on North 6th Street since the company
came to Marshall from Darwin Township. The
first office was located in a building that stood on the south side of the
current Kevin Barth Auto Sales building. The office then moved across the street into the building
occupied by the Independent Choice. In
1986 the office was moved ½ block north to the current location at 602 Archer
Avenue. In 1987 the name of the company was changed from Marshall Mutual County Fire Insurance Company to Marshall Mutual Insurance. This name change was the result of an expanding business and the fact that today the company writes coverage in 24 counties which include: Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Dewitt, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Iroquois, Jasper, Lawrence, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Marion, Mason, McLean, Menard, Montgomery, Moultrie, Piatt, Richland, Sangamon, Shelby, Vermilion. Marshall Mutual now operates under the direction of Dwight Shore as the Manager. Other members of the Marshall Mutual staff are: Jeff Murphy, Asst. Manager; Jackie Titus, Asst. Treasurer; Brent Kile, Claims; Wendy Tharp, Underwriting; Judie Nave, Personal Lines; Colleen Gard, Claims; Kathy Haskins, Commercial Lines; Laura Tingley, Receptionist; Katie Titus, Billing/Personal Lines; John James, inspector. The current Board of Directors consists of: Richard Glick, President, Phil Partlow, Vice President, Dean Huffington, Donald Abel, Ed Allen, Lee Cutright, Leon Dillier, Ralph Gene Higginbotham, John Meehan, Brad Kusterman, and Tom Wernz. |
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