Henry A. Church (-1924)

CHURCH, COTTLE

Posted By: Gail and Dennis Bell
Date: 5/28/2005 at 10:57:55

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, May 15, 1924, page 1, column 2. "DEATH OF HENRY A. CHURCH - Henry a. Church, who organized the first bank in Maxwell over forty years ago, was taken ill while at the primary election polls at Los Angeles, Calif., May 6th, and passed away the day following at his home in that city. Mr. Church, a resident of Marshalltown at that time, organized the Bank of Maxwell in 1883 and was well known to the older residents of the vicinity. He was born on a farm in western New York and served in the Civil war in the eighty New York artillery. After a time in Chicago, he moved to what was then a frontier town, Marshalltown, Iowa, where he lived nearly thirty years. He was a buyer of stock and produce, and shipped the first full train of live stock ever sent out of Iowa. He built more than 300 houses in Marshalltown and established banks in Conrad, Maxwell, Rhodes, Liscomb and St. Anthony, Iowa, and in Norborne, Mo. He went to Los Angeles in 1904, intending to retire, but place a bank in Norwalk in 1904, in Burbank in 1908, bought the Highland Park bank in 1912 and established the First National Banks of Baldwin and Montebello. The banks at Burbank, Montebello and Highland Park are now branches of the Security Trust and Savings bank. Mr. church leaves his widow, to whom he was married fifty-seven years: one daughter, Mrs. C. C. Cottle, of Los Angeles; three sons, R.
O. Church, of Burbank; C. M. Church, of ____, Jr., of Los Angeles; nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. R. O. Church and C. M. Church are vice presidents of the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles, and are prominent in banking circles of that city."