Great Lakes Mutual Insurance Company
- Identifier
- DBB-BUS-01011
- Name
- Great Lakes Mutual Insurance Company
- Type
- Business
- Activity
- insurance
- Year Established
- 1928
- Description
- Founded in 1928, this company was touted as the largest Black-owned business in Michigan. In the 1930s and 1940s it operated from 301 East Warren Avenue and later moved its headquarters to 82 East Hancock Avenue. The company also owned and operated an apartment house called Great Lakes Manor.
- Affiliates
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Blount, Louis C.
Role: Officer (Vice President and Secretary in 1933)Gaines, Carlton W.
Role: Board MemberGreenidge, Robert
Role: Officer (Medical Director in 1933)Grooms, R. Louise (R. Louise Henderson)
Role: Manager (Chief accountant and office manager)Holcomb, Henry W.
Role: Officer (Inspector in 1933)Kenney, Albert E.
Role: Officer (Vice President)Mahoney, Charles H.
Role: Officer (President and General Counsel in 1933)Miller, C. Collins
Role: Staff (Agency Director in 1933)Mosley, Bill
Role: StockholderRoxborough, John Walter
Role: Officer (President)Walker, Moses L.
Role: Officer (Vice President and Treasurer in 1933)Kinney, Albert E.
Role: Officer (Vice President in 1935)Osby, William
Role: Board Member (On the Board of Directors in 1935)Bristol, Agnes (née Fairfax)
Role: Board Member (On the Board of Directors in 1935)Watson, Everett
Role: Board Member (On the Board of Directors in 1935)Gordon, H. L.
Role: Staff (Policy Department in 1935)Johnson, J. E.
Role: Staff (Auditor in 1935)Henderson, M.
Role: Staff (File Clerk-Stenographer in 1935)Hanson, William
Role: Staff (Superintendent in 1935)Richey, H. L.
Role: Staff (Superintendent in 1935)Frands, A.
Role: Staff (Superintendent in 1935)Rankin, Mary
Role: Staff (Superintendent in 1935) - Book Pages
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This business or an affiliated person appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): xiv, 64, 93, 134, 135, 146, 150, 154, 155, 222, 229.
- Documentation
- Freedom Enterprise, xiv (Great Lakes Mutual Insurance Company)
- 1933-12-23 Detroit Tribune, 4 (Great Lakes Ins. Co.)
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1935 BTWTA Directory, 15, 35 (Great Lakes Mutual Insurance Company)
- Title
- Great Lakes Mutual Insurance Company
- Resource class
- Organization