Purely mutual life insurance. New-York Life Insurance Co. : Established 1845. Home office, 112 & 114 Broadway, N.Y. ... This is one of the oldest, safest, and most successful life insurance companies in the United States and offers advantages not excelled, and, in some respects, not equalled by any other. It has paid to widows and orphans of the assured over two million dollars. ... Dividends declared annually. For 1865, fifty per cent. ...