Identifier: picturesqueburli00auld (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Auld, Joseph, 1848-1921
Subjects: Burlington (Vt.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Association
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and to the wide extent of ourterritory, which offers to every man who will work for it, a home,and a chance to surround himself with the neces.sities and comfortsof life. All these factors are recognized as contributing to andestablishing the .self-supporting character of our population, butthere is one factor whose potency in this directioii is too often for-gotten, that of the institution known as life insurance. Before anation can become thoroughly pro.sperous its members must betrained in habits of self-control and frugality, and a means mu.stbe found to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves,and whose inability comes from weakness and not mi.sconduct.Both these ends are accompli.shed by life insurance. The manwhose life is insured, knows that the annual pa>-ments must bemet, and his regard for his loved ones is a sufficient incentive tocau.se him to meet them promptly in order to prevent lapse. Thismav necessitate self-denial; it mav oblige him to watch his .small
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172 PICTURESQUE BURLINGTON. expenditures closely, but he gladly makes the sacrifice, and at thesame time acquires habits of prudence and economy that are of thegreatest advantage in aiding his success in life. In view of thesefacts it is gratifying to know that the advantages of life insuranceare becoming every ^^ear more thoroughly appreciated; that nearlyall the life insurance companies show an increased business as eachyear is ended, and that life insurance, emphasizing, as it does, thebetter side of a mans life, unites on a common basis the principlesof business with benevolence. Burlington has only one life insurance company. In1868 the legislature granted a charter to Torrey E. Wales,Samuel Huntington, Russell S. Taft, Jo I). Hatch, George F. Ed-munds, F. C. Kennedy and others as a body corporate by thename of The Vermont Life Insurance Company, having its headoffice in Burlington, Vermont. Ever since its incorporation thegrowth of the company has been steady, and at no time in

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