In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company made its first ever real estate loan of $600 to Charles Horning at 10% interest. The company had been founded in Janesville in 1857 but was reorganized and moved to Milwaukee in March 1859. It had been selling life insurance since its inception but on June 16, 1860 a board meeting had released $3000 for real estate loans. The Company is still in operation in Milwaukee. (By John Osborne)
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Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, The Semi-centennial of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1859-1908 (Milwaukee, WI: Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1908),108.
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