Shown here: A gathering to mark Utica Mutual’s 10th anniversary in 1924, the company’s safety bureau in 1924, a modified version of the Utica Mutual logo around 1918, the Mayro Building, the company’s home from 1917 to 1926, Utica Mutual’s ladies bowling team, and the company’s hospital division at Faxton Hospital in Utica, NY. Utica Mutual’s move to the independent agency system started in 1928 when it began appointing agents to sell automobile insurance in areas not easily serviced by the company’s centrally located branch offices throughout New York State. Shown here: An overview of the company’s district and branch offices in the 1920s, the new logo that was introduced around 1929, celebrating Utica Mutual’s 20th year in 1934, a company-sponsored information booth welcoming visitors to the area in the 1930s, and the Rochester, NY, branch office in the 1930s.ĭuring the Great Depression, while other companies struggled or closed, Utica Mutual stood on solid financial ground, experiencing some of the best of its early years and finding cause to celebrate its quarter-century of taking care of agents and policyholders. Shown here: Utica Mutual’s championship employee baseball team, the Oneida Indian corporate trademark introduced in 1938, an early Utica Mutual advertisement, marking 25 years in business in 1939, and modern office equipment, circa 1930.ĭespite the effects regulatory sources and World War II had on the company, Utica Mutual’s assets had more than doubled by the end of the 1940s, with the organization well-poised to prosper in a peacetime economy.
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