The National Union Life and Limb Insurance…

March 1868 CE

The National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company becomes known as Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on March 24, 1868 and shifts its focus to the life insurance business.

The predecessor company to the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, or MetLife, for short, had begun in 1863 when a group of New York City businessmen had raised $100,000 to found the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company.

The company had insured Civil War sailors and soldiers against disabilities due to wartime wounds, accidents, and sickness.

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New York New York New York United States View →

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New York State (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Metropolitan Life Insurance Company View →

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American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View →

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