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Joseph Morris - 63 Years as a Member
1900-1920's
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Info on Joseph Morris

Son of Jacob Morris, Joseph Morris founded an Insurance Company in cooperation with other leading merchants of the area, for the benefit of merchants and vessel owners along the coast, its territory extended from Cape Freels in the North to St. John's in the South, it was named, The Trinity Mutual Marine Insurance Company, with its headquarters in Trinity and Joseph Morris its first President. This was the first Insurance Company in its class in the Country, and most of the vessels of that day were insured with it.

His father Jacob, owned James Morris & Sons and by the late 1800's he was in his early seventies. The burden of leadership in the business then fell on Joseph's shoulders. Joseph proved very capable of the task, and kept adding to the business,using vessels in the cod and the seal fisheries while others were used as fish collectors and in foreign trade. The business name was now changed to J. & J.

Just a year after taking over the business, Joseph Morris ran head first into a terrible calamity, the cause of which was the Bank Crash of the Commercial Bank in St. John's, which bank was looking after the monetary affairs of his business; overnight Joseph Morris discovered that he had lost heavily in the crash, and was more than broke himself, as his business had lost all its Cash Assets, and that we was in debt to his Creditors to the tune of about ten thousand dollars. He was able to talk his Creditors into giving him a stay of execution for at least the time being. From there he worked his way back up through his insurance company and in 1899 the company insured 324 vessels owned by 125 owners and firms. The company continued to grow until 1909, in this year insurance was carried on 368 vessels, whose combined tonnage was 14,012 and the total insured value was $428,932.00.

Joseph Morris was also a very important member of the Trinity Benefit Club and was rewarded in 1920 for being a member of the club for 63 years with a flashlight being presented to him by the club.

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Reginald Mills - 62 Years as a Member
1910-1920's
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Arthur White - President (1933-1945)
1920's
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Arthur Hiscock, President (1945-1947)
1930's
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Albert Pittman - President (1947-1948)
Circa 1900
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Henry J. Rowe - President (1948-1952)
Cicra Late 1900's
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Fred Bartlett - Treasurer (1951-1974)
1950-1970's
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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George Bartlett - President (1952-1961)
1940-1960's
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Eric Hogarth - President (1961-1973)
Circa 1960
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Gilbert Hiscock - President (1974-1975)
Circa 1974
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Calvert Goldsworthy - President (1976-1993)
2 February 1988
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Harvey Hogarth - President (1993-2000)
Circa 1980
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society

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Cyril Vokey - President (2000-2004)
Circa 2000
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Credits:
Trinity Benefit Club
Trinity Historical Society