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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.
Montana Park is a residential suburb of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa. It is situated to the north-east of the Pretoria CBD. Over the recent years (~2005 to 2015), Montana has experienced a considerable influx of Africans. As of November 2019, the official language in the area can be said to be English, followed by both Setswana and Afrikaans.
State Farm was founded in June 1922 by retired farmer George J. Mecherle as a mutual automobile insurance company owned by its policyholders. [10] The firm specialized in auto insurance for farmers and offered better rates than rival companies, which must also cover expensive premiums of the urban motorists. [11]
No longer functioning in Omaha. [7] New York Life Insurance Company: 1845 Omaha Country Club: 1899 Omaha Public Power District: 1946 Omaha World-Herald: 1885 Founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It was absorbed by George L. Miller's Omaha Herald in 1889. Peter Kiewit Sons: 1884 Packaging Corporation of America: 1959
Jesse Lowe (March 11, 1814 – April 3, 1868) was the first mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, serving for one year from March 5, 1857 to March 2, 1858. [1] An important real estate agent in the early city, Lowe is credited with naming the city after the Omaha Tribe. [2] USA, Nebraska Territory, $1 City of Omaha 1857 uniface banknote.
John A. Creighton, 1854-1904 Nebraskans. John Andrew Creighton (October 15, 1831 – February 7, 1907) [1] was a pioneer businessman and philanthropist in Omaha, Nebraska who founded Creighton University.
The city's premier newspapers, the Omaha Bee and the Omaha World-Herald, were founded in 1874 and 1885, respectively. Omaha was the location of the 1892 convention that formed the Populist Party , with its aptly titled Omaha Platform written by "radical farmers" from throughout the Midwest.
The nearby city of Anaconda was the dream child of industrialist Marcus Daly (1841–1900), whose Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) by 1900 employed three-quarters of Montana's wage earners; it dominated the state's politics and press into the 1950s. The smelters in Anaconda process the copper mined in Butte.