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He was a teller in the Muscatine Branch of State Bank of Iowa in 1863, and when this was reorganized under the National Bank Act and became the Muscatine National Bank, he was made cashier. Underwood organized and was president of the Merchants' National Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, from 1879 until he left the West. He built in 1872 the ...
Morgan was born on October 24, 1900, in London, United Kingdom to John Pierpont Morgan Jr. (1867–1943) and Jane Norton Morgan (née Grew) (1868-1925). His father was the son of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837–1913) and his mother was the daughter of Boston banker and mill owner Henry Sturgis Grew (1833–1910).
Joseph Francis Sartori (December 25, 1858 – October 6, 1946) was a Los Angeles banker and civic leader, founder and President of Security-First National Bank, was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Country Club and the City of Torrance, and was influential in the development of the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, Subway Terminal Building and Los Angeles Civic Center.
Hoyt Sherman was born in 1827 in Lancaster, Ohio.He was the youngest of eleven children born to Mary (née Hoyt) Sherman (1787–1852) and Charles R. Sherman, a lawyer who was a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court, [2] who died unexpectedly of typhoid fever in 1829.
Frank Phillips was born on November 28, 1873, [1] in Scotia, Nebraska where his parents Lucinda and Lewis Franklin Phillips, the county's first magistrate, had a farm. [2] The family moved in 1874 to a small farm in rural southwest Iowa after a swarm of grasshoppers wrecked havoc on the farming region of Scotia. [3]
Herman Kountze (August 21, 1833 – November 20, 1906) was a powerful and influential pioneer banker in Omaha, Nebraska, during the late 19th century.After organizing the Kountze Brothers Bank in 1857 as the second bank in Omaha, [1] Herman and his brothers Augustus, Charles and Luther changed the charter in 1863, opening the First National Bank of Omaha that year. [2]
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George Fisher Baker became president of the bank after the Thompsons left the bank in the hands of Harris C. Fahnestock, a former partner of railroad financier Jay Cooke in the banking firm of Jay Cooke & Company, in 1877. [8] Thompson also founded Chase National Bank of the City of New York in 1877 (a predecessor to today's JPMorgan Chase Bank).