A century of success: the AmerUs Life story - Hardcover

In 1896, The Reverend George Breckenridge Peak obtained a charter to do business as the Central Life Assurance Society, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1897 , insurance agent W.J. Stewart and several friends in Bancroft, Iowa created a new fraternal benefit society, the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, which became American Mutual Life Insurance Company. Both companies grew and flourished in the decades that followed. In 1994 they merged, and the resulting company became AmerUs Life. George Peak and W,J. Stewart would hardly recognize their copies today. Amorous Life and The AmerUs Group now represent a burgeoning financial services organization involved not just in life insurance, but banking, real estate, mortgages, property management, construction, securities, and many other products that are part of modern economic life.