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About the Charter Mural...
ON April 1, 1835, Judge Willard Phillips, founder of the New England Mutual,
received from Governor Samuel Armstrong the charter which had just been
granted by the Massachusetts legislature authorizing America's first mutual life
insurance company.
To commemorate the event Charles Hoffbauer, the internationally famous
muralist, was commissioned to reconstruct the scene. In the painting Judge Phillips
is receiving the freshly-signed charter from Governor Armstrong. At the left are
House Speaker Rockwell and Senate President Bliss, while the four who had peti-
tioned for the charter with Judge Phillips are George Bond and Samuel Walley in
the foreground, and Ebenezer Andrews and Charles P. Curtis standing behind.
The mural, which complements Mr. Hoffbauer's widely-known series of eight
historical murals in the company's main lobby, hangs at the entrance to the Charter
Room, named in honor of that document.
Signing of America's First Charter for Mutual Life Insurance 1835
© N.E.M.L.I.Co.
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A Leader Through the Years
Granting of America's first charter for mutual life
insurance to the New England Mutual Life Insurance
Company (1835), is portrayed in this mural by Charles
Hoffbauer in the company's home office building in
Copley Square, Boston.
(Cut or tear reply card at fold)
Founder of mutual life insurance in America, the
New England Mutual pioneered in establishing
agencies in the South, the West, and in Hawaii
over a century ago. Its tradition of liberality and
progressive thinking has resulted in steady growth
to its present position as one of the leading life
companies in the country, owned by and serving
over half a million policyholders in every state
and territory.
TIL
501 Boylston Street
Boston 17, Massachusetts
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