Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Curacao,in the Dutch West Indies. His early years, until he was seven-teen, were spent in the Danish West Indies, where he receivedhis education. Then he came to the United States to enterbusiness life. It was on January 4, 1852, that he entered the service of theAtlantic Mutual Insurance Company of New York city, and hehas remained in that service, without interruption, down to thepresent time. He has, of course, enjoyed promotion from timeto time, and thus has passed from the lowest rank to the highest.His successive steps may be recapitulated as follows: In 1852 he began as a clerk; in 1865 he was appointed anunderwriter; in 1874 he was appointed to be fourth vice-presidentof the company; in 1876 he became third vice-president; in 1886he was made second vice-president. These were all appointiveoffices, but elective offices were near at hand. In 1895 he waselected vice-president of the company; and two years later, in1897, he was elected president, which office he continues to hold.
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ANTON ADOLPH EAVEN 275 In so consistent and persistent a career, Mr. Raven has foundneither time nor inclination to seek political preferment, and hehas accordingly held no political office. His business interestshave, however, extended outside of the company with which hehas so long been identified, and he is now a director of theAtlantic Trust Company, the Home Life Insurance Company,and the Phoenix National Bank of New York. Mr. Raven is a member of the Montauk Club of Brooklyn,New York, the American Museum of Natural History, and theMetropolitan Museum of Art. He is a member and vice-presi-dent of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor inBrooklyn, and a member and recording secretary of the Ameri-can Geographical Society. He was married in New York, in 1860, to Miss Gertrude Oat-man, who has borne him four children. These are as follows:William Oatman Raven ; Caroline Elizabeth MacLean, widow ofthe late Peter A. MacLean; Edith Raven; and John HowardRaven, professor of

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