Old Books

1800s

  • 1838 - Book - An Essay on Probabilities, by Augustus De Morgan - [PDF-370p-archive.org]
  • 1859 - Book - Introduction to the National Arithmetic: On the Inductive System Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods in which the Principles of the Science are Fully Explained and Illustrated, Greenleaf
  • 1850 - Book - Practical Remarks on the Present State of Life Insurance in the United States: Showing the Evils which Exist, and Rules for Improvement, by Harvey Garnett Tuckett
  • 1875 0513 – Speech - Life Insurance for the Poor, Elizur Wright - p149-157 - Journal of Social Science, Containing the Proceedings of the American Association: Issues 7-9 - [link-GooglePlay]
    • Sheppard Homans of New York , in discussing Mr. Wright's Paper, submitted the following: Suggestions for a Plan of Life Insurance without Large Accumulations, or Reserves - p157-164
  • 1876 - Book - The Insurance Statutes of the United States and Canada, by C.C. Hine - 895p - [link-GooglePlay]
  • 1888 - Book - Life Insurance Premiums and Reserves - by Homans - [PDF-13p] - [Bonk:  original PDF-20p - can be found on [link-GooglePlay], extraneous pages removed]
  • 1896 - Book - A Treatise Showing The Origin, Development and Condition of the Assessment System of Life Insurance An Impartial Review of the System as it Was and Is, Miles M. Dawson
  • 1898 - Book - Things Agents Should Know: An Intensely Practical Book for Life Insurance Agents, by Miles Menander Dawson

1900s

  • 1905 - Book - Life Insurance: The Abuses and the Remedies, by Brandeis 
  • 1905 - Book - Practical Lessons In Actuarial Science - Volume 1, by Miles Menander Dawson
  • 1907 - Book - The Story of Life Insurance, by Burton J. Hendrick - [PDF-333p-GooglePlay]
    • 1907 - Book - The Story of Life Insurance, by Burton J. Hendrick - 307p
  • 1908 - Book - Comparative Reserve Tables, by Miles Menander Dawson - [GooglePlay-link]
  • 1909 - Book - The Romance of Life Insurance Its Past, Present and Future, with Particular Reference to the Epochal Investigation Era of 1905-1908, by William Joseph Graham - [PDF-313p-GooglePlay]
  • 1911 - Book - The Life Agents Primer, William Alexander
  • 1917 - Book - A License to Steal: Life Insurance, the Swindle of Swindles : how Our Laws Rob Our Own People of Billions, by Philander Banister Armstrong - [305p-GooglePlay]
  • 1920 (1907) - Book - Notes on Life Insurance, by Edward B. Fackler - [PDF-216p-archive.org]
  • 1920 - Book - The History of Life Insurance in the United States to 1870: With an  Introduction to Its Development Abroad, by Charles Kelley Knight, University of Pennsylvania - [2xxp-GooglePlay]
  • 1942 - Book - Marketing Life Insurance; Its History in America, by J. Owen Stalson
  • 1953 - Book - The American Life Convention, 1906-1952: A Study in the History of Life Insurance. 2 Vols. Pp. xxx, 680; viii, 681-1397. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Carlyle R. Buley
  • 1963 - Book - The Life Insurance Enterprise, by Morton Keller
  • II. Cost of Insurance-a Treatise upon the Cost of Life Insurance, together with an Arithmetical Explanation of the Computation of Premiums and Valuation of Policies, to which are added Tables of Net Premiums, Cost of Insurance, etc. , for the Use of Life Insurance Agents. By Nathan Willey, Actuary.
    • This is the very elaborate title of a neat octavo volume just published by Mr. Stephen English, Editor of the Insurance Times, of New York, and is issued in very handsome style.
    • The work extends to fifty-two pages, embracing over twenty pages of tables.
    • We have not been able to examine the work, but presume it is a very useful contribution to the abstruse literature of life insurance, and shall be glad to give it due attention on another occasion.  (p287 / 318)

1870 - Book - Bankers' Magazine and State Financial Register, Volume 25, Edited by  J. Smith Homans - [PDF-1031p-GooglePlay]

  • 1865 - Book - The Bubbles of Finance: Joint Stock Companies, Promoting of Companies, Modern Commerce, Money Lending, and Life Insuring Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason - Charles Dickens - [GooglePlay-link]
  • 1877 - Book - Frauds upon life insurance companies: An Address Before the Life Underwriters' Association of the State of Ohio, at Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, June 19, 1877
  • - Book - A Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives, By Charles Babbage
  • - Book - Observations on Reversionary Payments: On Schemes for Providing ..., Volume 1, by Richard Price