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OF EQUITABLEAmong the twelve new directors chosen by the Hoard of Hi rectors of the Equitable Life Assuruoce Society at N» w York on Friday is Charles H. Zehmier, a former Danville man.Mr. /ehuder is a sound businessman and carries •s'OO.noo worth of policies in the Equitalde. He is a son of Augustus Zehuder and was horn aucT raised in Danville. His promotion has been ver\ rapid. Mr /.ehnder will no doubt carry the good management and careful business methods that have contributed to hi- individual success into the affairs of the Equitable. His elect ion to the Hoard of Directors was urged by three of the biggest policy holders in Philadelphia He is a friend of Paul Morton and of Thomas F. Kyan, who bought out James Hazen Hyde's interest in the Equitable. His election along with the others will no doubt assist in restoring confidence in the great Assurance Company.In an interview Mr. Zelmder said:, “1 am heartily in accord with Chairman Morten and I also have great confidence in the business sagacity of Mr. Kyan. 1 am in favor of reorganization an 1 I am convinced that under the new management confidence will be restored and the business of the com pauy carried on quite as extensively as it was before, but upon a common sense basis.”Several of the Philadelphia newspaper^ Saturday printed Mr. Zelmd* er\s portrait, which was a go id likeness and showed him as a vigorous-looking man still on the sunny side of middle 111 e.He ii president nt the Austen Coal and Coke Company,the Allegheny Ore and Iron Company, and the Victoria Coal and Coke Company, vice president of the Scranton Holt and Nut Company and of the Empire Steel and Iron Company of Catasaqua and manager of Rogers, Drown an 1 Company. His offices arc in the Penusy 1 vauia Huilding, Philadelphia.
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Danville Montour American
Danville, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jul 20, 1905
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