Charles W. Chesnutt to Thomas M. Robbins & Son, 29 October 1931
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October 29, 1931
Thomas M. Robbins & Son,
1320 Williamson Building,
City.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed please find my check for $68.90, in payment of premiums on automobile policy #L.A.109698, of the New Amsterdam Casualty Company,1 amounting to $58.10, with the renewal of special automobile accident policy #A.H.R.1380, policy #S.A.P.2443, $3.00, making a total on these two policies of $61.10; American National Fire Insurance Company,2 #A.602064, $7.80, making a total of $68.90.
Please give the bearer a receipt for these payments, and oblige.
Yours very truly, CWC:MKCorrespondent: White insurance broker Thomas Maxwell Robbins (1872–1947) founded his insurance company in Cleveland in the early 1900s. His son Harleigh Dean Robbins (1896–1966) joined the company in 1919 and continued to run it after his father's death.
1. The New Amsterdam Casualty Company, founded in 1898 in New York, was a nationwide insurer. [back]
2. The American National Fire Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, was founded in 1916 by John W. Zuber (1878–1945); by 1930, it had affiliates nationwide. [back]
