Farmers' Bank records

Collection – Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-0018

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Abstract

Meeting minutes, stock certificates and registers for a bank based in Ohio City, Ohio.

Dates

Creation: September 1, 1901 - April 6, 1932

Extent

9 Volumes (9 ledgers)

Creator

Farmers Bank (Ohio City, Ohio) (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

Little is known about the Farmers' Bank of Ohio City, Ohio. The History of Van Wert County, Ohio, and representative citizens, vol. 2, by Thaddeus S. Gilliland, 1906 reports that “The Farmers’ Bank of Ohio City, Ohio, was organized in 1899, with the following officers: S.G. Sheller, of Dayton, president; M. M. Agler, cashier; and Benjamin F. Hoffman, vice-president. The other members of the company comprise these substantial citizens: O.G. Hackedon, manufacturer; J.A. Swoveland, druggist; C.A. Leasenhoff, grocer; W.H. High, farmer and stock-raiser; and Frank Caster, Samuel Hertel, and L. Disher, farmers. Although the bank has been in existence but a few years, it has secured the public confidence and occupies and enviable position among the financial institutions of this locality. Much of its prosperity is directly due to the high standing of the officials and the careful, conservative course they pursue” (pp. 474-475).

As records indicate, the bank was active through the early 1930s. It does not appear in a 1951 county business directory, so ceased at some point between the 1930s and 1951.

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