HOME MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION.

The Michigan Funeral Benefit Association was organized at the office of a. W. Dodds, June 10, 1899, by A. W. Dodds, Rev. H. E. Wolfe, I. N. Walker, A. D. Alvord, E. P. Bailey, George Archer, and J. N. Willett, all residents of Flint, under the title of the United Mutual Death Benefit Society. It was organized under a plan devised by one of its originators for the payment of a sum graduated according to age, upon the death of its members. It was successful from the start and in a few years numbered four thousand members. A more elastic organization was then found to be necessary and the society was incorporated on February 3, 1904. The order is purely beneficiary in character, having no lodge or fraternal features, and is now doing business in a number of other states. The name has since been changed to the Home Mutual Benefit Association, and has a present membership of three thousand five hundred. The meetings are held once a month.