1912/1913 WOODEN ANTIQUE SIGN SAYS: AUTOMOBILE UNDERWRITER OF THE LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASULTY COMPANY'WORLD'S GREATEST AUTOMOBILE MUTUAL President , James S. Kemper started a new Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company, incorporated in Illinois on November 18, 1912. Lumbermens issued its first policy, to the Rittenhouse and
Embree lumberyard, seven days after the firm was incorporated. In 1913 James Kemper founded National Underwriters insurance exchange to provide supplementary fire insurance for lumbermen. Slow growth continued through World War I. After WW1 Lumbermens opened offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Syracuse, New York. In 1926, it became AMICO -still a part of the Kemper Insurance group, with no connection to Lumbermens (the company on the sign) Today it is American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance.