The founding bankers as a roll, and the banker who rescued the bank as a chief in his own right

1838–1869 AND THE MORRIS LINE · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY) · OSCEOLA'S ONE BANKER RESTATED

The founding bankers' roll for this county is dug in the Granger banks addendum at Howard strength, and it is restated here as a roll, at roll size, because this section owns the men as founders: the State Bank of Indiana's South Bend branch (opened 24 November 1838) was secured through Dr. John A. Henricks, the Hon. Thomas D. Baird and the Hon. George A. R. S. Crawford; its subscription commissioners were Alexis Coquillard, Lathrop M. Taylor and John Grant; its presidents in succession were Tyra W. Bray, John Egbert, Lathrop M. Taylor, Anthony Defrees, Jonathan L. Jernegan, Samuel C. Sample and Ricketson Burroughs. The national era's founding roll stands beside it: the First National Bank of South Bend (Charter No. 126) was organized on 5 September 1863 by Charles N. Culver, Thomas S. Stanfield, John A. Henricks, Ethan S. Reynolds, John Reynolds and Ransom Hubbard — Stanfield its first president, John T. Lindsey its first cashier. Osceola's place on the roll is one name, and it is the town's founder: Henricks, the branch's securer in 1838 and the First National's organizer and (from 1869) president — a bank founder twice over, for another city, as Businesses already prints. The banker who rescued the bank — Ernest M. Morris in the floor instance, the Morris Plan / First National figure of the Depression-era South Bend record — is carried as a chief in his own right at the size the record reached: named, classed with the turnaround chiefs of art-65-4, and with his rescue's instrument-level record named as the settler (the bank's own record and Howard's banking chapter read at page strength, with the Tribune's Depression file), because the rescue's dates and mechanics were not verified first-hand here and are not dramatized. The town itself, Businesses's tested whole, never had a bank to rescue: its money trade ran through these men's counters from 1838 forward.

Sources: Banked Granger banks addendum (Howard 1907, §16) — the 1838 branch securing, commissioners and presidents; Charter No. 126's organizers, Stanfield and Lindsey. Banked Notable People / Businesses (Henricks's bank course; Osceola's tested absence of any bank). Settler named for the Morris rescue at instrument strength: Howard's banking chapter at page strength; the bank record; the Tribune file.