CHAPTER XIV -- BANKS AND BANKING (CONT'D)

The following banks were established at the dates below specified:

Bank of Defiance, 1882; Bank of Irwin, 1884; State Bank of Portsmouth, 1884; German Savings Bank of Earling, 1890; Harlan Bank of George Walters, established 1897; Panama Savings Bank, 1897; the pioneer banker at Panama was George Walters, who owned a private bank that antedated the Panama Savings Bank for some years; the Elk Horn Bank, 1902; Farmer's and Merchants' Savings Bank, Harlan, 1904, Tennant Savings Bank, 1905; Farmer's Savings Bank, Shelby, 1909; Farmer's Savings Bank, Irwin, 1911; Kirkman Savings Bank, 1912 (this bank was preceded by a private bank established in Kirkman by Frank DeKoltz); Harlan National Bank, 1913 (this was the successor of the Harlan Bank of George Walters, established 1897); Farmer's Bank, Elk Horn, 1913.

Transcribed by Denise Wurner, March 2014 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pp. 306.

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