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The bankers' fortune, its officer stock printed

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No banker's fortune or estate figure for Lakeville stands in any carrier reached — and only one officer of either bank is even named. The officer stock prints whole, because it is all there is. Of the first house (national charter No. 516): a January 1925 directors volume names the board — C. S. Rensberger, F. Shater (spelling as carried), J. F. Price, J. R. Steele, A. E. Steele, and Lulu C. Rush — directors, expressly, not officers; no president or cashier of No. 516 is named by any carrier reached. Of the second house, the Central State Bank of Lakeville, exactly one officer is named anywhere in the reached record: its cashier, Robert Herbsten, a witness in the 1971 Moses testimony alongside teller Elizabeth Rowe — a courtroom naming, not a fortune. Of the 1956 bank, no president or directors list was reached at all. No probate figure, no estate notice, no obituary valuation for any of these people stands in the carriers this build reads. The row closes as a named gap, its settlers named and current: the St. Joseph County probate record for the named directors' and officers' estates, and the bank-directory record (the Rand McNally / Polk bankers' directories) for the officer lists the narrative carriers never printed. The gap is a record fact, not an oversight: small-town bankers' money is probate money, and probate is a courthouse pull.

Principal sources: the banked Banks (the charter, the 1925 board, the 1982 merger); this history lk-rem-crime (the Moses record: Herbsten and Rowe); the sources file's pull-list discipline for the settler's form.

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Source: The bankers' fortune, its officer stock printed, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/wealth/bankers-fortune-a-named-gap-its-officer-stock-printed/