Gus S. Wortham family andbusiness records 1864-1997

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Gus S. Wortham family andbusiness records 1864-1997

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00256/00256-P.html

Correspondence,financial records, awards, memorials and photographs documenting the family andbusiness life of Gus S. Wortham. Wortham was a pioneer in the insuranceindustry in Texas , founding the American General Life Insurance Company, oneof the first multi-line insurance firms, in 1926. Gus S. and Lyndall F. Worthamwere very generous philanthropists in Houston, supporting the arts in manyways.

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Rice University Archives, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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WORTHAM, GUS SESSIONS (1891-1976). Gus Sessions Wortham, businessman and civic leader, son of John Lee and Fannie (Sessions) Wortham, was born in Mexia, Texas, February 18, 1891. He attended Tarleton State University and the University of Texas at Austin, and served in World War I as an aerial gunnery instructor and commander of the 800th Aerial Squadron of the United States army. Wortham's career in the insurance industry started in 1912, when he was hired by the Texas Fire Rating ...

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