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State Farm. The nation’s insurance leader. But a company founded on very humble beginnings.

The origins, of course, were with G.J. Mecherle, the founder of the company…he didn’t think it was fair that he and his fellow farmers and families in rural communities paid the same auto insurance rates as those in Chicago.

The idea was an honest insurance company that provided rates related to the risk…(and were)…responsible stewards of the money the policyholders provide us in premiums.

State Farm was founded in 1922, in the small farming town of Bloomington, Illinois.  Read More…