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Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 407-408
MEN WERE TRAINED. I should fail to do justice to Messrs. Joseph A. Greene, George C. Stone, Joseph Richardson, Thomas M. Isett and William C. Brewster did I not repeat the names of other bankers whom these men trained, many of whom went out into other and some to larger fields. Howard M. Holden became cashier of the First National Bank at Washington, Iowa, and later president of the First National Bank of Kansas City, Missouri; William H. Hubbard became cashier of the First National Bank of Iowa City; John Kerr, head of the firm of Kerr & Company, and president of the First National Bank of Leavenworth, Kansas; Joseph B. Cass, of the firm of O. D. Cass & Company, of Denver; John Farnsworth, of Kimbell & Farnsworth, at Cresco, Iowa; Shepard Farnsworth became cashier of the First National Bank of Council Bluffs; and Henry B. Cragin, who became a large and successful merchant of Chicago.
I became cashier of the Muscatine National Bank in January, 1869, and in November, 1879, president of the Merchants' National Bank of Kansas City. Associated with me at the time I enlisted the Muscatine branch of the State Bank was Charles A. Eggert, who became professor of modern languages in the State University of Iowa.
Among those who served with me were the late Jacob Negley, who became cashier of a bank in Pittsburg, and the late Alfred B. Brown, one of the soundest and best of men. Of the boys who began their careers in the bank are Willard R. Greene, son of Joseph A. Greene, the pioneer banker of the city, and Frank Jackson.
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