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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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n the office of a selling agent of a manufacturingfirm in Boston. He began at the foot of the ladder, as an officeboy, and worked his way upward until, at the age of nineteen,he became a traveling salesman. Later he came to New Yorkand became a partner in business with a manufacturers com-mission house, and remained in that business, with varyingsuccess, for several years. Mr. Hayness real business career dates, however, from 1877,when he became identified with life-insurance. He began as anagent, soliciting business for the Equitable Life Assurance Societyof New York, and with that same great corporation he is stillconnected. At first, as a solicitor of insurance, he worked alone,and with decided success. In time he brought about him otheragents, working under his direction, and thus created and man-aged a general agency. His unsurpassed, perhaps unrivaled,success may be estimated from the simple fact of record thatthere are to-day several life-insurance companies, of good stand- 152
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AKCHIBALD C. HAYNES 153 ing, which, after many years existence, do not know an aggre-gate of insurance in force as great as the amount placed by Mr.Haynes alone upon the books of the Equitable and now outstand-ing to his credit. Of course, there has been much more writtenby him, of policies which have either lapsed or have matured andbeen paid. The grand total of all would reach a sum which, ifstated, would seem almost marvelous as the work of a singleman. Mr. Haynes has not dabbled in politics, and has given littleof his time to club life, the Lawyers Club being the only one inwhich he holds membership. He was married, in 1872, to MissElizabeth Degraw Conover, daughter of the late Gustavus A.Conover of New York. She died in 1884, leaving him threesons, of whom one is a medical student, one is living in Cali-fornia, and one is in the employ of the general agency managedby Mr. Haynes. In 1892 Mr. Haynes married Miss Minna K.dale, who had been leading lady in the theatrical company ofEd

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