In 1930, Anthony “Tony” Mahowald left his job as a bank teller to sell life insurance door-to-door in St. Cloud, Minn.
Today, Mahowald Insurance Agency is still local, independent and family-owned. It entered the property-casualty market when Tony's son Robert A. Mahowald joined the agency and assisted the St. Cloud school district with consolidating its policies.
When an agency does business for more than 80 years, it collects its fair share of folklore. During Prohibition, one East Coast insurer (which Mahowald declines to name) is said to have sent a company truck to hand-deliver policies to St. Cloud each December. Stearns County was widely known for high-quality moonshine whiskey, so after the policies were delivered, the truck was loaded with enough libations for that year's company Christmas party.
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