00775.xml Retail Lumbermen's Inter-Insurance Exchange: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Christopher G. Welter Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul, MN.

Manuscripts Collection

Finding aid encoded by Christopher G. Welter, April 2010 Finding aid written in English. September 2010 Box 1 relocated by David B. Peterson. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Retail Lumbermen's Inter-Insurance Exchange. Retail Lumbermen's Inter-Insurance Exchange records. 1894-1988. Materials in English. 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. 2.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes). 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.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics 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. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Retail Lumbermen's Inter-Insurance Exchange Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: 16,187

Processing Information:

Processed by: Christopher G. Welter, April 2010

Catalog ID number: 007122674

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 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. 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.

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. 148.C.6.7B 2 Advisory Committee minutes of meetings, 1962-1977. 141.F.17.3B 1 Print material, undated. Reciprocal insurance information, undated and 1932-1981. Miscellaneous business records, 1916-1987. Photographs, undated and ca. 1970s. 2 folders.

Mostly of unidentified employees; includes some of an unidentified fire.

148.C.6.7B 2 Panoramic photograph, March 3, 1926.

Northwestern-Central and Northeastern Iowa Retail Lumbermen's convention.