Equitable Holdings, Inc. is an American financial services and insurance company that was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde. In 1991, French insurance firm AXA acquired majority control of The Equitable.
Headquarters at 1290 Avenue of the Americas
Advert, 1904
Equitable Building at 120 Broadway on a postcard, c. 1918
A life insurance policy for President James A. Garfield written by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States on the 22nd of June, 1881, signed 9 days prior to Garfield being shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.
Henry Baldwin Hyde was an American businessman. He is notable for having founded The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in 1859. By the time of Hyde's death, The Equitable was the largest life insurance company in the world.
Henry Baldwin Hyde