First National Bank of Fort Wayne — the consolidations and the Depression-era end

1863 – closed March 1933; reopened October 1933 as the Fort Wayne National Bank (the Businesses section carries the 1863 founding)

Course: The Businesses section carries the bank from its 1863 organisation (capital raised from $100,000 to $400,000; presidents Oscar A. Simons, John H. Bass and Charles H. Worden) through its two great consolidations: the White National Bank consolidated into it in August 1905, and in April 1917 it consolidated with the Hamilton National Bank and took the name First and Hamilton National Bank. The chain continued into the Depression. In 1929 the Tri-State Loan and Trust Company consolidated with the First National under the First National's charter, and the combined institution took the name First and Tri-State National Bank and Trust Company of Fort Wayne — the consolidation is recorded in the Comptroller of the Currency's report for the year ended 31 October 1930 and in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's 1929 annual report. The bank then merged with the Old National Bank, and the combined institution carried the name Old-First National Bank (styled in full the Old First National Bank and Trust Company); Frank H. Cutshall, formerly the Old National's president, was president of the successor. The sources found do not pin the year of the Old National merger; it falls between the 1929 Tri-State consolidation and March 1933.

Fate: The Old-First National closed in March 1933, in the banking crisis, and did not reopen under its old charter. It was reorganised, and in October 1933 the doors reopened as a new institution, the Fort Wayne National Bank — the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's branch record for the bank's headquarters at 110 West Berry Street carries an establishment date of 30 October 1933. the Businesses section carries the Fort Wayne National Bank from there (independent until its acquisition by National City Bank in 1998; the lineage continues in PNC). This closes the question the Businesses section left open: the First and Hamilton name is absent from the Federal Reserve's 1935 licensed list because the bank had by then been closed, reorganised and reborn under a new name and charter.

Sources:

1. Comptroller of the Currency, annual report, Table 15, year ended 31 October 1930, and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, annual report 1929 (FRASER) — the 1929 Tri-State consolidation and the combined name.
2. ACGSI Allen County place and person pages (McCulloch and bank pages, citing the Journal Gazette) — the 1905 and 1917 consolidations, the Old National merger, the March 1933 closing and October 1933 reopening as the Fort Wayne National Bank.
3. Pioneers Resting in Historic Lindenwood (1989), Frank H. Cutshall sketch — his presidency of the Old National and of "its successor, the Old First National Bank and Trust Co."
4. FDIC branch data via city-data.com — the 110 West Berry Street branch establishment date, 30 October 1933.