Joseph Fairchild Knapp was a notable American lithograph and President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarony, Major and Knapp | 1857 | 1858 | |
| Metropolitan Life | 1871 | 1891 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1867/00/00 | Under the leadership of president James R Dow and finance director Joseph F Knapp, the firm ends its casualty business and focuses on life Insurance. | Work | |||||
| 1868/03/24 | Subsequent reorganizations of the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Co results in the creation of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co which consecrates on selling life insurance. Dr James R Dow, a retired physician from Brooklyn, is president. | Work | |||||
| 1870/00/00 | Joseph Knapp hires John R Hegeman, as the Company Secretary. Hegeman will serve as Knapp's Vice-President and, after Knapp's death in 1891, he will become the third President of the Metropolitan (1891-1919). | Work | |||||
| 1871/00/00 | Joseph F Knapp becomes president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. | Work | |||||
| 1878/00/00 | Joseph Knapp travels to London where he studies the Prudential Assurance Company's methods first-hand, and upon returning home, persuaded Metropolitan's directors to make "industrial" insurance the company's primary product. | Work | |||||
| 1878/00/00 | Metropolitian enjoys the first of six big years in a row. By 1891 they will have over $250 million worth of industrial life insurance in force, more than the combined totals of its two chief industrial competitors, Prudential and John Hancock. | Work | |||||
| 1879/00/00 | Metropolitan begins writing industrial life insurance, policies offered at low prices to industrial workers, and so become a leader in this new insurance field. They also pioneers intermediate-range life insurance and several social welfare programs. | Work | |||||
| 1883/00/00 | Fred Ecker stars work as a mail boy. Knapp will appoint Fred a clerk in the real estate department. Fredrick H Ecker will become the fifth President of the Metropolitan (1929-1936) and then its first Chairman of the Board. | Work | |||||
| 1889/00/00 | In need of more space, J F Knapp selects Madison Avenue between 23rd and 24th Streets as the site for a new seven-story, white marble, Second Renaissance Revival office building (lost) designed by Napoleon Le Brun. | Work | Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower | New York City | |||
| 1889/00/00 | Joseph Knapp recruits attorney, Haley Fiske, to join the Metropolitan. Haley Fiske will become the fourth President of the firm (1919-1929). | Work |
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