Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: Charles E. Hochstetler of Kansas City

 This post includes Travelers Insurance Agent cancels from the Travelers Insurance 1898 mini-album. 

C. E. H. Agt.

NOV

4

1898

Travelers Ins. Co.

from The Travelers Record, May 1901

A Mr. Martin H. Thompson was thrown from his sleigh on Main Street in Kansas City and died.  He carried a life insurance policy worth $5000.  Remarkably, the thank you note indicates that he died on Feb 11, the death certificate was provided to The Travelers on Feb 14, and the payment was made on the 19th.  No wonder The Travelers published this letter.

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: S. F. Woodman of Boston

This post includes Travelers Insurance Agent cancels from the Travelers Insurance 1898 mini-album. 

S.F.W.

JAN 30 1899

BOSTON

from The Travelers Record, May 1899

 

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: Horace W. Power of Cleveland

This post includes Travelers Insurance Agent cancels from the Travelers Insurance 1898 mini-album. 

H. W. POWER,

JUL

25

1898

CLEVELAND, O.

from The Travelers Record, April 1898

Charles Slough, an Engineer with the Big 4 Railway, broke his arm.  His Travelers accident policy helped bail him out.

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: George C. Sawyer of Syracuse, New York

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George C. Sawyer initial cancels:

G.C.S.

SEP

20

1899

 

from The Travelers Record, May 1899

G.C.S.

NOV

4

1899

G.C.S.

AUG

30

1899

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: John H. Nolan of Chicago

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J. H. Nolan, General Agent Cancels

from The Travelers Record, May 1901

John T. Scott, a locomotive fireman (he kept the boiler's firebox stoked) died when his Chicago & Northwestern Railway locomotive fell into a turntable pit.  His wife was paid $1000.

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: John E. Finnegan of San Francisco

This post includes Travelers Insurance Agent cancels from the Travelers Insurance 1898 mini-album. John E. Finnegan used simple initials to cancel these stamps:

J. E. F.

MAR 1 1899

 

OCT. ?? 1899

J. E. F.

Travelers Agents were occasionally responsible for making insurance payments for notorious accidents:

from The Travelers Record, April 1898

J. Hughes, a Pullman Palace Car Co. employee was hurt in a Union Pacific accident in such a way that he states that his injuries were known to all Pullman employees from the Atlantic to the Pacific.  The February 10, 1897 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle tells the the story in brief:

Eat your heart out, Elon Musk:  

from The Travelers Record, August 1902

I think it likely that Eugene Levy's electric car was an electric street trolley, maybe what we might call a cable car today?

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: The H. D. Eichelberger & Company Bisects

Perhaps the most interesting feature of the Travelers "mini-album" is the presence of eight examples of one cent bisects, with two R154s and six R163s neatly bisected and tied to insurance document fragments.  Six of the eight examples are shown here:

HDE&Co

9/8/98

manuscript cancel tying stamps to document

H. D. Eichelberger & Co.

STATE AGENTS.

Handstamp cancels.  This and all subsequent examples of the R163 bisects are tied to their documents, which are Travelers accident insurance contracts.

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: H. D. Eichelberger & Company of Richmond, Virginia

from the 1897 Virginia Federation of Labor Directory

Stamps from the Travelers mini-album:

H. D. Eichelberger partial cancel with 718 E. Main St. address

H. D. EICHELBERGER & CO.

5

NOV

1899

RICHMOND, VA

H. E. EICHELBERGER & CO.

JAN

28

1899

H. D. EICHELBERGER & CO.

JAN

29

1900

David Thompson sent this scan of an R163 with an Eichelberger CDS; there are no R163s in the Travelers album:

H. D. EICHELBERGER & CO.

MAR

4

1899

RICHMOND, VA.

An H. D. Eichelberger promotional poster associating their firm with a group of men who swore an oath to their country, were nearly all educated at West Point, and then betrayed their country and fellow officers.  Of course an insurance firm in Richmond, Virginia would do this.

Travelers Insurance Agent Cancels: F. E. Ford of St. Paul, Minnesota

This post includes Travelers Insurance Agent cancels from the Travelers Insurance 1898 mini-album.  Today are the cancels of F. E. Ford of St. Paul, MN.

Mr. John K. West of Detroit, Minnesota, received injuries from a collision with a runaway horse.  He filed a claim and received $60 from The Travelers.  He thanked his agent, Mr. F. E. Ford:

from The Travelers Record, November 1902

F. E. Ford cancels:

F. E. FORD, State Agent.

MAR

14

1899