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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

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              PARKER & MILLEN. The firm of Parker & Millen, the well-known
           marine insurance men, was organized in 1880, the members of the
           firm being AARON A. PARKER, CAPT. JAMES W. MILLEN and BYRON W.
           BAKER. The firm does business for the following companies, all
           of whom insure hulls and cargoes: Western Assurance Co., of
           Toronto; Indemnity Mutual Marine Assn. Co., of London; Insurance
           Company of North America, of Philadelphia; St. Paul Fire &
           Marine Ins. Co., of St. Paul; British Foreign Marine Insurance
           Co., of Liverpool; Detroit Fire and Marine, of Detroit;
           Greenwich, of New York; Lloyds, of London, and World Marine, of
           London.
              The line of risks carried each season by Parker & Millen is
           probably the largest carried by any single office on the lakes,
           their premiums now amounting to upwards of $100,000 annually.
           Starting in the vessel in which the partners themselves were
           interested, the business has been gradually extended until it
           has reached its splendid proportions. Nearly all the insurance
           carried is of a stable character, being renewed each year by the
           owners.
              About ten years ago the firm also engaged in the wrecking
           business, and are now managers of the Swain Wrecking Company, at
           the Straits, wrecker Favorite, also the Isaac Watt and Westcott
           Wrecking companies, in Detroit river vicinity. This latter con-
           trol the wrecking tugs Saginaw, Wales, Balize and Onaping.
           together with the necessary outfit of pumps, jacks and other
           wrecking machinery.
              The members of this firm are heavily interested in vessel
           property, including freight and passenger steamers, and between
           them they manage a dozen different lines. They also control the
           dock property, and on each side of Griswold street, where hand-
           some brick buildings have been erected, that on the west side of
           the street now being used by the United States appraiser of that
           port.
              They also have one of the largest fire insurance agencies in
           Detroit, representing the following companies: Scottish Union
           & National of Edinburgh; Northern of England; Niagara Fire of
           New York; Cooper of Ohio; Caledonian of Edinburgh; Fireman's
           Friend of California; Fire Association of Philadelphia; Lion of
           London, and Queen of America.

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