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AUDIT ROW #370 · VANATTA BY 1903 · JOHNSON AND GRIDER BY 1916 · THE 2025 SUCCESSION BELOW
Walkerton's bank presidencies stand at canvass points, not in a continuous line: Vanatta holding a bank presidency by 1903, Johnson and Grider holding the two houses' presidencies by 1916 — and the line between and after those points is a named shortfall, printed as one. The directory and FDIC records as reached give the points; the continuous succession (every president, every year, both houses, through the 1930 wreck and the modern bank's line to the present branch regime) requires the banks' own records and the FDIC's institution histories in full, named here as the succession's settler. The modern end of the question — who actually heads the banking organizations that serve this town today — is dug in the modern-chiefs article below, because the answer changed on October 1, 2025, and a founders leg that prints chiefs prints them as of its date.
Principal sources: Businesses (the canvass points: Vanatta, 1903; Johnson and Grider, 1916), pointed to; settlers named — bank records and FDIC institution histories (the continuous succession).