Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York


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The result was keep. Tone 17:14, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York

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Not a notable company. Fails WP:GNG Setreis (talk) 06:37, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Setreis (talk) 06:37, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 08:56, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 08:56, 9 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment I can find more about the building than the company, but I'm not sure either is notable. No NRHP listing for the building, the company is old but just seems to be chugging along. Oaktree b (talk) 21:19, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * FWIW, the building is a contributing member of the Court Street Historic District (Binghamton, New York), which affords the building the same distinction of significance (and the associated benefits) as an individual listing. NHRP supporting documentation Vmanjr (talk) 07:34, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  This is a 267-page thesis that covers the company's history in substantial detail.. The document notes: "A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College in the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department  of Economics Under the Supervision of Professor Charles J.  Kennedy"  The article notes: "On Nov. 13, 1886, Charles M. Turner founded the Security Mutual Life Association with eight local businessmen. Unlike a stock company, a mutual insurance institution is owned by the insured persons who become company members and are entitled to indemnification in the event of loss. On Jan. 3 of the following year,  Security Mutual opened for business at 86 Court St. in downtown Binghamton. The first customer was Charles E. Tichener, the founder of Tichener Iron Works in Binghamton. Tichener bought a one-year, renewable-term policy naming his wife as the beneficiary, which in the event of his death paid the widow $1,000. Security Mutual pocketed $38.06 in premiums on its first day of business. Within six months, the company had collected nearly $5,000 in premiums with $650,000 of insurance in force. By the end of that year, revenue hit the $15,000 mark with more than $1 million of life insurance in force."  The article was published in 1887 so is in the public domain. The article notes: "In The Independent of last week we gave an analysis of the contract of an association calling itself 'The Security Mutual Life Association of Binghamton, N.Y.,' showing conclusively that no real insurance was granted by the contract. We now propose to show how utterly absurd it would be even to give insurance under the rates charged. ... Business men must necessarily think twice before such trash as this is substituted for genuine Life Insurance."  </li> <li> The article was published in 1887 so is in the public domain. The article notes: "One of the recent organizations which is being pressed as something new and wonderful is the "Security Mutual Life Association of Binghamton, N. Y." It is dressed up with new clothes, but it is a co-operative, and nothing else. It does not appear in the reports of the New York Insurance Department, because it is not old enough. But it has circulars, making all sorts of claims, and a large piece of bond paper printed on both sides, which it calls a policy.</li> <li> The article was published in 1898 so is in the public domain. The article notes: "The Security Mutual Life Association, of Binghamton, is an assessment society which has changed its name from "association" to "company," under the very peculiar general act of last March, and has now an office in this city, under charge of M. D. Moss, whose former contract with the Mutual Reserve is cited as in part leading to the present internal dissensions in that society."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 12:55, 14 February 2021 (UTC) </li></ul> <div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 09:50, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep With the new sources above, should be kept as it is notable. Oaktree b (talk) 15:11, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Thanks a lot, Cunard! I was on the fence before, but I believe that there is enough notability for the company to justify the article. Vmanjr (talk) 16:31, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


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