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Home mortgages are available countrywide over the phone or through agents. [12] In the 1950s, State Farm held a contest among the agents to come up with ideas to expand the State Farm business. Robert H. Kent, a State Farm agent in Chicago, came up with the idea of providing auto loans to existing policyholders.
George Jacob "G.J." Mecherle [1] (pronounced "Ma-herl") (June 7, 1877 - March 10, 1951) was the founder of State Farm, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois.Mecherle, a farmer who later became an insurance agent, founded State Farm after becoming dissatisfied with the insurance rates charged to farmers, as those rates included the risks of city drivers as well.
Over the next 70 years, Texas Farm Bureau grew from 15,630 member families to more than 500,000 member families. [7] During its history, the organization has helped bring electricity and phone service to rural communities, establish a successful farm-to-market road system in Texas and enact effective national farm policy. [8]
The monument of the fallen men of the Dawson Massacre and the ill-fated Mier Expedition.. On September 18, 1848, the remains of Texans killed in the Dawson Massacre and the Black Bean Episode, which had been retrieved from their original burial sites, were reinterred in a common tomb with a sandstone vault at the location now known as Monument Hill.
In 1900, Burnett purchased the 8 Ranch, later known as the 6666 Ranch, near Guthrie, Texas, from the Louisville Land and Cattle Company. [5] He also acquired the Dixon Creek Ranch near Panhandle, Texas. In 1917, he built a ranchhouse in Guthrie designed by architects Sanguinet and Staats at a cost of US$100,000.
The Levi Jordan Plantation is a historical site and building, located on Farm to Market Road 521, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of the city of Brazoria, in the U.S. state of Texas. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by enslaved Black people, it was one of the largest sugar and cotton producing plantations in Texas during the mid-19th century ...
The district's second-oldest school is in Louisville's Tyler Park neighborhood along Lucia Avenue. Bloom was built in 1896, making the large brick school 127 years old. Approximately 550 students ...
Robert Chester Tway Sr. (October 21, 1881 – May 13, 1964), known as R. C. Tway, was a business, agricultural and political icon in the Louisville, Kentucky area. His activities provided a long-lasting footprint in Kentucky as his farm (named Plainview Farms) evolved into a large subdivision and business center located off Hurstbourne Lane, and his former Kentucky Trailer Company continues to ...