C. WARDEN PIPPEN 

Source: The History of West Virginia, Old and New
	Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
	Chicago and New York, Volume III
	pg. 110-111

C. WARDEN PIPPEN has devoted considerably more than
half his lifetime to the business and profession of life in-
surance. He is a man of unusual achievements in that call
ing, which demands the broadest qualifications of industry,
resourcefulness and commercial integrity.

Mr. Pippen, who is general agent in West Virginia for 
the Massachusetts Life Insurance Company, was born at
Baltimore, Maryland, in 1884, son of Charles Edward and
Roberta O. (Hamill) Pippen. His father, a native of
Gloucester County, Virginia, moved to Baltimore when a
young man and married there a daughter of Robert Warden
Hamill, who owned and operated the first steam flour mill
in Baltimore.

C. Warden Pippen acquired a good general education in
the public schools of Baltimore, and finished his third year
in the City College of Baltimore. He was only seventeen
when, in 1901, he gained his first practical knowledge of
the life insurance business as a clerk in the Baltimore office
of the New York Life Insurance Company. He was there
two years, and then removed to Atlanta, Georgia, and be-
came assistant cashier for the Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany. Subsequently he went to Nashville, Tennessee, as
cashier for the same company in that city, and later was
transferred to Washington as superintendent of agents.
The eleven years he spent with the Mutual Life were the
period in which his powers were developed and in which
his reputation became widely extended as a successful insur-
ance man. He then formed a new connection with the
Massachusetts Life Insurance Company of Springfield. This
company sent him to Charleston as general agent, and he
established his office and home in the capital city in 1914.
Mr. Pippen is general agent for the entire state except ten
counties.

Mr. Pippen brought to his new duties at Charleston the
knowledge and resources acquired by years of toil, ex-
perience and training, and in this state he has added to his
reputation as an insurance producer. Every year the busi-
ness credited to his Charleston headquarters has shown a
gratifying increase. It is especially worthy of note that
in the year 1921, a year of anti-climax to practically every
business and industry in point of volume as contrasted with
the years of war inflation that succeeded, the West Virginia
agency was one of only fifteen agencies in the Union to
show an increase in volume of insurance business for the
Massachusetts Life Company over the record of the previous
year.

Mr. Pippen is a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
Kanawha Country Club, Elks, and has the honor of being
secretary of the Lions Club of Charleston. He assisted in
organizing this club on September 30, 1921. Its member-
ship embraces a representation of what may well be called
the best of strong, vigorous, active citizenship of Charleston,
men of high character and devoted to the best interests of
the city. Mr. Pippen married Miss Blanche Watson, of
Baltimore. Their two children are: Gretchen B. and Jean
Ann Pippen.

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