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CENTENNIAL SPIRIT 100 years of insurance the G.A. Mavon & Co. way by Mike Ellis | Photography by Linda Horton
FOURTH-GENERATION Chairman Jerry Mavon and son, president Phil Mavon, of G.A. Mavon & Co. insurance agency.
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lot changes in 100 years, but certain things remain relatively unchanged. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson was the President of the United States, and the nation was two years from entering World War I. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Brooklyn Robins/ Dodgers to win the World Series.
That same year, Girard Aloysius (G.A.) Mavon founded G.A. Mavon & Co., an insurance agency, on south Halsted Street in Chicago. One hundred years later, the business is still going strong, in the hands of the Mavon family. Chairman Jerry Mavon, a longtime Hinsdale resident and G.A. Mavon’s grandson, said his grandfather only had an eighth-grade education, when he entered the insurance business collecting Continued on page 40
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