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Description: Reverse reads "Columbia Insurance building - old K of C (Knights of Columbus) club. Columbia Insurance was organized around between 1881-1882 by Oliver Irwin Gunckel of Dayton, Ohio, with a starting capital of $150,000l. E.M. Thresher was president and Gunckel served as the secretary, a post he held for twenty years before being elected president. The home office stood at the North-west corner of Second and Jefferson streets in Dayton, Ohio. According to one source they specialized in fire and fire-marine insurance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_b03f03_005_001
Subjects: Fire insurance--Ohio--History; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)