Home State Life Insurance Company was an Oklahoma

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 insurance

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 company that operated from 1929 to 1958, when it became part of the American General Life Insurance Company.

The Home State Life Insurance Company was founded in 1929 by Joe D. Morris as an insurance and investment enterprise. It grew to become one of the largest such firms serving Oklahoma City

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. In 1945 Morris acquired the former India Temple Shrine Building, now known as the Journal Record Building

Journal Record Building

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, which he remodeled to serve as the company's offices.