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First National Bank Of Helena Records, 1865-1903
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- First National Bank of Helena
- Title
- First National Bank Of Helena Records
- Dates
- 1865-1903 (inclusive)18651903
- Quantity
- 165 linear feet of shelf space
- Collection Number
- MC 116 (collection)
- Summary
- The First National Bank of Helena, Montana, was organized by Samuel T. Hauser and T.H. Kleinschmidt, in 1866. Prominent officers included: John S. Atkinson, D.C. Corbin, and E.W. Knight, cashiers; George H. Hill, assistant cashier. The bank was in receivership from its closing in 1896 until 1903. Records (1865-1903) include correspondence, financial volumes, legal documents, and organizational records of the bank and of its receiver, Eugene S. Wilson.
- Repository
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Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov - Access Restrictions
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Collection open for research.
- Languages
- English, German
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The first national bank to be established in Montana Territory was originally organized by Samuel T. Hauser as a private bank under then name S.T. Hauser and Company. It received a national charter as the First National Bank of Helena on April 5, 1866, with a capitalization of $100,000. The bank's first officers were S.T. Hauser, president; and Theodore H. Kleinschmidt, Cashier. Originally housed in a grocery store on Main Street, the bank erected its own building in 1866 at the corner of Main and Wall streets, near where Helena's first gold strike had been made two years before. The building was twice consumed by fire in 1869 and 1874, but was rebuilt each time on the same site. In 1886 a new First National Bank building was erected at the corner of Main and Grand streets, at a cost of between $35,000 and $40,000. For many years the bank's chief business was the handling of gold dust, which was the accepted medium of exchange. The average price of $17.50 per ounce varied considerably from gulch to gulch, depending on the fineness or the dust. The evaluation and purchase of gold dust was thus a job for an expert and Cashier T.H. Kleinschmidt was such an expert, with the reputed ability to distinguish exactly which gulch a shipment of gold dust came from. In addition to the gold trade, the Bank bought and sold coin and government vouchers and acted as a collection agency. An assay office was operated in connection with the Bank by Augustus Steitz. Although initially organized to serve the needs of the mines and miners, the First National Bank grew and changed with the times and shifted its emphasis to serving the growing cattle and sheep industries. Under the leadership of officers Hauser (President), A.J. Davis (Vice President), E.W. Knight (Cashier) and T.H. Kleinschmidt (Assistant Cashier) the Bank was strong enough to withstand the severe ranch losses of the winter of 1886-1887 with little adverse effect. By 1893, Helena had six national banks and several local banks. No other city in the country had a comparable per capita bank capitalization or deposits as Helena. However, the Panic of 1893 brought an end to this prosperity. During a two week period in July 1893 more than a million dollars in coin and currency were withdrawn from Helena's banks. On July 27, the First National Bank suspended operations. With the cooperation of the Bank's depositors and creditors business was resumed on January 23, 1894. The following December the First absorbed the Helena National Bank, which had previously merged with the Second National Bank. With the exception of Hauser, the old officers were replaced. Vice President E.D. Edgerton took over the actual operation of the Bank. This new organization, however, could not save the Bank,. In September 1896 the First National Bank closed and a Receiver was appointed. The Bank's failure was due to a combination of national and local problems. Nationally, the currency system and banking laws were inadequate to deal with the major depression of the 1890s. Locally, Helena's economy was in decline. The Bank had been mismanaged for a number of years, with excessive loans granted to bank officers, deficient legal money reserves and excessive overdrafts and overdue paper.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence, 1865-1896. Large number of bound volumes of financial records, including General and Individual Ledgers, Cash Books, Daily Balance Books, various Registers, etc. Legal Documents of the Bank and of the various individuals involved with the Bank. Subject File containing material of various people and companies which did business with the Bank. There is a Subgroup for the papers of the Bank Receivership, 1896-1903.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.
Preferred Citation
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged by subgroup series. Some material housed in Manuscript Volumes. See inventory below for more information.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection
First National Bank Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Incoming Correspondence |
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Box/Folder | ||
1 / 1 | U.S. Controller of the Currency (re
charter for national bank at Virginia City) |
1865 |
1 / 2 | B-U (correspondents include I.G.
Baker; Clark Brothers and Company; Jay Cooke and Company; Dance,
Stuart and Company; Fourth National Bank of St. Louis; Gilman, Son
and Company; Miners' National Bank of Salt Lake; James Stuart; Third
National Bank of St. Louis; U.S. Internal Revenue; U.S. Treasurer;
U.S. Controller of the Currency) |
1866 |
1 / 3 | B-U (correspondents include I.G.
Baker; Clark Brothers and Company; Jay Cooke and Company; A.M.
Esler; Fourth National Bank of St. Louis; T.W. & B.N. Harris;
George Hoagland; Isett, Kerr and Company; Commick McKeon; W.A.
Ransom and Company; John B. Tilden; U.S. Treasurer; U.S. Controller
of the Currency; Marcus A. Wolff) |
1867 |
1 / 4 | B-W (correspondents include Clark
Brothers and Company; J.B. Curle; Dance, Stuart and Company; Silas
Harvey; Hussey, Dahler and Company; S. Landsberg; Hugh McAuley;
William A. McMurray; Thomas C. Power; James Stuart; U.S. Treasury
Dept.; Wing, Willoughby and Company) |
1868 |
1 / 5 | B-W (correspondents include G.D.
Beebe; R.W. Carroll and Company; Carroll and Steell; W. Clinton;
W.B. Dance; Fort Shaw Quartermaster; Minnie Grady; John How; King,
Stewart and Aldrich; N.P. Langford; J.S. Pemberton and Company; M.F.
Robbins; St. Louis and Montana Mining Company; James Stuart; U.S.
Treasury Dept.; E. Wakeley) |
1869 |
1 / 6 | B-W (correspondents include Bank of
California; A.B. Campbell; William H. Clagett; N. Cormally; William
Cutler; Fort Shaw Quartermaster; H.D. Hauser; Ferd. Kennett; Thomas
C. Power; Cole Saunders; Taylor and Wright; Traders Bank, St. Louis;
U.S. Treasury Dept.; Marcus A. Wolff) |
1870 |
1 / 7 | C-W (correspondents include Jay Cooke
and Company; R.M. Cooney; W.B. Dance; Fourth National Bank of St.
Louis; Healy and Hamilton; E.W. Knight; N.P. Langford; North West
Fur Company; O.B. O'Bannon; T.C. Power and Brother; Henry Thompson;
U.S. Indian Agent for Flathead Reservation; U.S. Treasury Dept.;
Frank H. Woody) |
1871 |
1 / 8 | A-U (correspondents include C.C. Abel
and Company; Bank of California; J.V. Bogert; James F. Brown and
Company; William A. Clark; Jay Cooke and Company; J.A. Creighton and
Company; W.W. Dixon; R.G. Dun and Company; Fourth National Bank of
St. Louis; John Glandon; George Higgins; Imperial Silver Mining
Company; Kountz and Brothers; N.P. Langford; George A. Lowe; James
H. Mills; S.N. Norton; V.W. Olds; T.C. Power and Brother; Cole
Saunders; Walter Trumbull; U.S. Indian Agent for Flathead
Reservation; U.S. Treasury Dept.) |
1872 |
1 / 9 | A-J (correspondents include John J.
Atchison; Baldwin, Wright and Rising; J.L. Buskett; William H.
Clagett; Jay Cooke and Company; Austin Corbin; T.T. Crittenden; E.M.
Dunphy; First National Bank of Bozeman; A.G. George; C.P. Higgins;
George Higgins; W.S. Irvine; Jefferson County Treasurer) |
1873 |
1 / 10 | M-W (correspondents include J.G.
Marsden; John McCormick; V.W. Olds; Phillips, Taber and Company;
T.C. Power and Brother; Winfield Robbins; Robertson and McBride;
James M. Ryan; Salt Lake National Bank; Granville Stuart; U.S.
Office of Indian Affairs; U.S. Indian Agent for Crow Reservation;
Frank Walker; J.J. Wheeler; F.L. Worden) |
1873 |
2 / 1 | A-E (correspondents include J.M.
Alger re death of Felix McArdle; George T. Bruce; J.E. Callaway;
N.L. Chadwick; Austin Corbin; D.S. Dewey; R.G. Dun and Company; W.G.
Edwards) |
1874 |
2 / 2 | A.M. Esler (Divide) |
1874 |
2 / 3 | F-W (correspondents include Fort
Ellis Commissary; C.W. Higley, Henry Holcomb; Thomas H. Irvine;
Ferd. Kennett; N.P. Langford; John E. McDonald; C.W. Mather; O.B.
O'Bannon; V.W. Olds; T.C. Power and Brother; Rich and Willson; A.L.
Rogers; W.F. Sanders; R.R. Shipler; G.W. Stapleton; J.C. Stuart;
W.H. Sutherlin; U.S. Office of Indian Affairs; U.S. Indian Agent for
Blackfeet Reservation; U.S. Treasury Dept.; John R. Waller; B.F.
White) |
1874 |
2 / 4 | B-E (correspondents include William
Bailey; J. Bogert; John M. Butler; William A. Clark; Austin Corbin;
C.L. Dahler; W.B. Dance; Carrie Evans) |
1875 |
2 / 5 | A.M. Esler (Divide, Argenta, Bannack) |
1875 |
2 / 6 | F-P (correspondents include Ann
Farrar; Fort Shaw Quartermaster; John G. Hammer; Joseph Hirschman;
John Jacobs re Hugh Kirkendall estate; George S. Kennedy and
Company; N.P. Langford; P.A. Largey; Lewis, Bull and Company re
Legal Tender Silver Mines; John McCormick; John E. McDonald;
Missoula National Bank; O.B. O'Bannon; Omaha Smelting and Refining
Company; T.C. Power and Brother) |
1875 |
2 / 7 | R-Y (correspondents include H.
Robertson; R.J. Robertson; Peter Ronan; Cole Saunders; A.J. Simmons;
Granville Stuart; W.C. Swett; D.C. Turner; U.S. Treasury Dept.; C.D.
Yancey) |
1875 |
2 / 8 | B-D (correspondents include I.G.
Baker and Company; Royal M. Bassett; Seth Bullock; Corbin Banking
Company; W.W. Dixon) |
1876 |
2 / 9 | A.M. Esler (Butte) |
1876 |
2 / 10 | F-M (correspondents include First
National Gold Bank; C.W. Higley; H.M. Hill; Joseph Hirschman; Lewis,
Bull and Company re Legal Tender Silver Mines; John McCormick;
Martin Maginnis; Missoula National Bank; Murphy, Neel and Company) |
1876 |
3 / 1 | N-W (correspondents include W.H.
Nelson; A.B. Nettleton; Pope, Cole and Company re Baltimore Copper
Works; St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company; Rosemary Smith;
Granville Stuart; U.S. Treasury Dept.; U.S. War Dept.; J.A. Viall;
J.P. Woolman re U.S. Centennial Commission) |
1876 |
3 / 2 | B-E (correspondents include I.G.
Baker and Company; Black and Daniels; S.M. Breckinridge; J.E.
Callaway; Corbin Banking Company; T. Dawes; George S.C. Dow; Henry
Elling) |
1877 |
3 / 3 | A.M. Esler (Butte) |
1877 |
3 / 4 | G-W (correspondents include Henry
Guyer; H.D. Hauser; S.T. Hauser and Company, Butte; C.W. Hoffman;
Hope Mining Company; George A. Lowe; John McCormick; The Montana
Company; A.B. Nettleton re Northestern Company; Pope, Cole and
Company re Baltimore Copper Works; T.C. Power; Revere Copper
Company; J.G. Sanders; Joseph K. Toole; P.O. Toole; U.S. Indian
Agent for Lemhi Reservation; U.S. Office of Indian Affairs; U.S.
Treasury Dept.; Weeks and Forster; L.S. Willson) |
1877 |
3 / 5 | A-L (correspondents include American
Bankers Association; I.G. Baker and Company; W.C. Barsten; Black and
Daniels; James Brisbin; John P. Bruce; A.J. Davis; W.W. Dixon; Henry
Elling; Ellis and Davis; Sarah Frederick; Daniel G. Garnsey; E.
Grisar and Company; Henry Guyer; Charles W. Hoffman; Hope Mining
Company; J.O. Hussey; Kelley and Cameron; I.I. Lewis) |
1878 |
3 / 6 | M-W (correspondents include Missoula
National Bank; The Montana company; The Northwestern Company; Revere
Copper Company; H. Robertson; Cole Saunders; Story and Willson;
Union Pacific Railroad Company; U.S. Office of Indian Affairs; U.S.
Treasury Dept.; Walker Brothers; J. Whitney) |
1878 |
3 / 7 | A-L (correspondents include
Algonquian Company; J. Bogert; James Brisbin; John P. Bruce; Butte
City Bank; Caplice and Smith; D.C. corbin; C.L. Dahler; Ellis and
Davis; A.M. Esler; William Gaddis; E. Grisar and Company; Harding,
Martin and Company; Hope Mining Company; Floyd Jones; August
Krueger; Ladd and Tilton; I.I. Lewis) |
1879 |
3 / 8 | M-W (correspondents include Montana
Freight Line; The Northwestern Company [Frank Frisbee]; H.
Robertson; Peter Ronan; Cole Saunders; E.W. Toole; U.S. Treasury
Dept.; Walker Brothers; William Weintein; B.F. White) |
1879 |
3 / 9 | A-J (correspondents include Alta
Montana Company; I.G. Baker and Company; C. Berg; E.G. Brooks;
George Clendenin; Corbin Banking Company; Deer Lodge County Sheriff;
Henry Elling; A.M. Esler; L. Fitzpatrick; William Gaddis; Gray,
Dewey, Gould and Company; Harding, Martin and Company; Russell B.
Harrison; Hatch and Brother; Gavin Johnson) |
1880 |
3 / 10 | M-W (correspondents include M.
Kronberg; Missoula National Bank; Pennsylvania Fire and General
Detective Agency inquiring about Montana Stock Growers Association;
H. Robertson; Story and Willson; Granville Stuart; U.S. Indian Agent
for Blackfeet Reservation; Ralph Wells; B.F. White) |
1880 |
4 / 1 | A-W (correspondents include John
Atchison; Alta Montana Company; J.R. Boyce Jr.; James Brisbin; E.G.
Brooke; George Clendenin; C.L. Dahler; Davis, Hauser and Company;
Gustavus C. Doane; Paris Gibson; Harding, Martin and Company; A.
Henden[?]; J.O. Hussey; N.P. Langford; George S. Lewis; Len Lewis;
N.T. McClintock; Northwestern Masonic Aid Association; A.I. Oliver;
J.K. Pardee; R.S. Price; W.N. Rank; J.C. Savery; Story and Willson;
Granville Stuart; U.S. Treasury Dept.; William Wallace; L.D. Wickes;
James Wild) |
1881 |
4 / 2 | A-L (correspondents include Alta
Montana Company; James Brisbin; Caldwell and Fiske; R.H. Clendenin;
Corbin Banking Company; T.A. Cummings; D.W. Curtiss; W.W. Dixon;
Downs and Allen; First National Bank of Butte; Charles Greenleaf;
William H. Guthrie; Charles Klaus; Lynde and Company) |
1882 |
4 / 3 | M-W (correspondents include N.T.
McClintock; John McCormick; Susan B. McNeil; Missoula National Bank;
Overfield and Churchill; W.D. Pickett; R.S. Price; K. Randall; J.C.
Savery; August Schluter; George Steell; Story and Willson; Sudduth
and Montgomery; U.S. Tresury Dept.; C.S. Voorhees; William Wallace;
W. Wingate; J.A. Woodson; Frank H. Woody) |
1882 |
4 / 4 | A-K (correspondents include Alta
Montana Company; B.W. Badger; James Brisbin; R.H. Clendenin; Conant
Brothers; Cook and Hussey; J.H. Emery; First National Bank of Butte;
First National Bank of Fort Benton; William Gaddis; Harding, Martin
and Caverly; George M. Hatch and Brother; H.L. Hutchinson; R.T.
Kennon; Peter Koch) |
1883 |
4 / 5 | L-Y (correspondents include John
Love; Lynde and Company; J.G. MacAdams; N.T. McClintock; Maverick
National Bank; Northern Transcontinental Survey; John A. Quirk; F.W.
Reed and Company; Herman Richter; Louis Rotwitt; Cole Saunders;
Arthur Sias; Stebbins, Post and Mund, Bankers; Swan Incandescent
Electric Light Company; U.S. Army Dept. of Dakota; William Wallace;
Thomas A. Wickes; S.P. Young) |
1883 |
4 / 6 | A-J (correspondents include N.
Armstrong and Company; P. Bader; B.N. Badger; Bank of Murray;
Belknap Town and Improvement Company; Fannie Bernard; J.R. Boyce;
James Brisbin; E.F. Brown; David G. Browne; Thomas H. Carter;
Clifford and Clary; J.E. Dougherty; Eagle City Bank, Idaho; J.H.
Fisk; George Heldt; Helena Mining and Reduction Company; J.O.
Hussey; Gavin Johnston; Francis Jones) |
1884 |
4 / 7 | L-W (correspondents include E.B.
Largent and Company; Lemuel Lincoln; J.G. MacAdam; Meagher County
Clerk Louis Rotwitt; Reginald Molesworth; Moreland Ranch Stock
Company; E.J. Monson; Northern Pacific Railroad Company;
Northwestern Masonic Aid Association; Nye and Company; R.S. Price;
Charles Rader; F.W. Reed; Thomas Rose; Theodore Shenkenberg; Arthur
W. Sias; S. Irving Stone; Granville Stuart; William Wallace; John T.
Ward; Thomas A. Wickes; John A. Woodson) |
1884 |
4 / 8 | A-J (correspondents include
Anglo-Californian Bank; B.N. Badger; Joseph A. Baker; Bozeman
National Bank; J.L. Buskett; John Schuyler Crosby; First National
Bank Albany, Oregon; First National Bank of Fort Benton; Henry C.
Foster; Addie Foy; Feorge M. Hatch; William V. Helfrich; W.C. Hill;
S.S. Hobson; E.J. Hodgson; H.H. Horton; J.O. Hussey) |
1885 |
4 / 9 | M-W (correspondents include Phil A.
Manix; Meagher County Clerk Louis Rotwitt; Molecular Telephone
Company of Utah; E.J. Morison; Philip I. Moule; R. Parkhurst; John
G. Pickering; M.E. Patterson; Benjamin F. Potts; R.S. Price; E.D.
Rhey; Ed Sayre and Brother; Severance and Company; Arthur Sias;
Singer Manufacturing Company; Spence and Company; John Strong; W.H.
Sutherlin; U.S. Treasury Dept.; H.A. Van Valkenburg; W.S. Wetzel;
C.H. Wood; John Woodson; A.M. Woolfolk) |
1885 |
5 / 1 | A-M (correspondents include Jesse
Armitage; S.H. Beatty; Berg Brothers; James Blake; James Brisbin;
Bullard and Barbour; Cable Company; A.D. Churchill; O.H. Churchill;
E.W. Davies; First National Bank of Butte; First National Bank,
Ketchum, Idaho; H.C. Foster; James Gibson; Russell B. Harrison;
George Heldt; Hodgson and Stem, Architects; H.H. Horton; James Jobb;
P. Knabe; Knapp, Burrell and Company; Meagher County Clerk Louis
Rotwitt; Mosler, Bahmann and Company) |
1886 |
5 / 2 | N-W (correspondents include J.J.
Palmer; M.H. Parker; Benjamin F. Potts; A.E. Pound; H.C. Pound; H.E.
Riddle; W.H. Sutherlin; Herbert Sheridan; J.H. Shober; Arthur Sias;
Rudolf Von Tobel; A.P. Weidman; I.G. Wickersham; C.H. Wood) |
1886 |
5 / 3 | A-J (correspondents include Charles
A. Albright; J.R. Boyce; H.W. Child; R.H. Clendenin; Eliza J.
Dougherty; Elkhorn Mining Company; First National Bank, Billings;
Goodchild and Company; James Gouch; Jeremiah Griggs; Hill and
Lawther; Hodgson and Stem, Architects; J.O. Hussey; W. Hussey and
Company; Gavin Johnston) |
1887 |
5 / 4 | M-W (correspondents include W.
McCormick; Meagher County Clerk Louis Rotwitt; Miles Mix; E.J.
Morison; John C. Pickering; F.H. Putnam; S.C. Robertson; Charles E.
Severance; Smith and Wyman; W.J. Smutz; Unexcelled Fireworks
Company; U.S. Secret Service; A.P. Weidman) |
1887 |
5 / 5 | A-H (correspondents include H.D.
Burghardt; Cable Company; W.E. Dean; A.M. Esler; D.C. Folsom; Samuel
A. Gaylord and Company; J.C. Gilson; Granite Mountain Mining
Company; James T. Hair Company; Will Hanks; Harry Hart; Helena Steam
Power and Lighting Company; David Hilger; J.O. Hussey) |
1888 |
5 / 6 | J-W (correspondents include James
Jobb; T.C. Kavanagh; Len Lewis; Phil A. Manix; H.M. Martin; Meagher
County Clerk Louis Rotwitt; Meagher County Sheriff William Rader;
National Park Bank; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; J.H. Rice; J.
& W. Seligman and Company; Robert Stratton; James Travis; U.S.
Treasury Dept.; Wernse and Dieckman) |
1888 |
5 / 7 | A-D (correspondents include A.S.
Abole; Bennett Brothers Company; James Brisbin; M.H. Brown; Buskett
Mercantile Company; E.B. Chapman; Charles L. Davis; W.E. Dean; John
Devine; E. Douglas) |
1889 |
5 / 8 | F-M (correspondents include D.E.
Folsom; H.P. Freeman; W. Gerlach; James T. Hair Company; Hall and
Bennett; F. Jay Haynes and Brother; Charles Hayward; George Heldt;
Anton Higler [in German]; J.O. Hudnutt; J.O. Hussey; T.C. Kavanagh;
A.B. Keith; Len Lewis; N.P. Loberg; Melville, Evans and Company;
Montana Granite Company; E.J. Morison) |
1889 |
5 / 9 | N-Z (correspondents include Fanny
Nash; National Park Bank; Cyrus Newby; Robert L. Paynter; Peckham
and Brown; Thomas Pleasants; J. & J. Severance; J.A. Snyder;
John B. Stone; Robert Stratton; Granville Stuart; John R. Thomas;
E.W. Toole; U.S. Treasury Dept.; Charles L. Webster and Company;
John R. White; Alex Williams Jr. and Company; A.M. Woodruff; L.
Wottrich [in German]; Wilhelm Zieman [in German]) |
1889 |
5 / 10 | B-K (correspondents include A.S.
Blumenberg; Brush Electric Company; T.C. Burns; Cascade Bank; H.
Claussenius; George Danzer; Charles L. Davis; J.J. Donovan; J.E.
Dougherty; C.D. Ebert; First National Bank of Butte; Mathias Gales
[in German]; Williamm Graham; August Kern Barber Supply Company;
George F. Kunz) |
1890 |
5 / 11 | L-Y (correspondents include James M.
Largent; R.B. Lehman; A. McGregor; Maguire's Opera House; D.S.
Martin; Meagher County Treasurer J. Tipton; Melville, Fickus and
Company; Frank S. Milbury; A.E. Moberg; J.H. Newberry; Northwestern
Industrial Exposition; C. Lawrence Perkins; Isom Preuitt; Harry
Rodgers; Charles E. Severance; D.W. Small; A.P. Smith; J. Steinmetz
Jewelry Company; U.S. Treasury Dept.; Watertown National Bank;
Yellowstone National Park) |
1890 |
6 / 1 | A-L (correspondents include Arthur's
Home Magazine; I.G. Baker and Company; Fred Begeman [in German];
Alex C. Botkin; Thomas H. Carter; Curtis and Majors; Adam Emich;
Farson, Leach and Company; First National Bank of Butte; First
National Bank of Castle; Thomas Gahagan; William Harrison granite
quarries; Russell B. Harrison; Helena Consolidated Water Company;
John Heurth [in German]; M.D. Kelly; J.E. Landsman; W.R. Logan |
1891 |
6 / 2 | M-W (correspondents include Fletcher
Maddox; Phil Manix; Charles Mattison; E.A. Meyer; J.A. Mink [in
German]; E.J. Morrow; B.R. Noble; Northwestern Masonic Aid
Association; Realty Investment Company; Granville Stuart; Ralph
Wells; Williams and Coburn Wool Commission Merchants; Peter Winne;
George Wooldridge; L. Wottrich [in German]) |
1891 |
6 / 3 | A-H (correspondents include Alden
Vinegar Company; M.F. Miller; Sister Amadeus; Arthur's Home
Magazine; James Basch; R. Beasley; Cascade Bank; John Chamberlin;
Commercial Adding Machine Company; J.H. Conrad and Company; Crosby
and Quinn; J.E. Daugherty; H.R. Dunlop; Mrs. J.L. Eastlake; Thomas
Everett; Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company; First National Bank
of Castle; A.R. Frame; Anetta S. Godman; Gold Dredging Company; A.M.
Grady; Oscar Grotthurt [? in German]) |
1892 |
6 / 4 | K-T (correspondents include S.A. Kean
and Company; William Kirk [in German]; Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne;
Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company; N.P. Langford; Maryland
Pottery Company; E.P. May; Meagher County District Court; Merchants
and Miners Bank; B. Morse; J.R. Patterson; R.S. Price and Company;
S.C. Robertson; St. Louis Mining and Milling Company; St. Peter's
Mission; N. Scheyer [in German]; Scott and Nash; O.O. Simons; T.P.
Spiers; Louise Stiger; A.B. Taylor) |
1892 |
6 / 5 | B-F (correspondents include Baltimore
Business Agency; Fred Barrett; Walter M. Bickford; August Biebel;
J.W. Blair; John R. Brooke; Cascade Bank; Clark Brothers and
Company; W.A. Clark and Brother; H. Claussenius [in German]; J.H.
Conrad and Company; Walter Cooper; Ernest Crutcher; Charles D.
Curtis; Charles Davis; Annie Dunn; Dan Eisenberg; Edwin M. Ellis;
Henry Elling; Ensor Remedy Company; First National Bank of Dillon;
First National Bank of Missoula) |
1893 |
6 / 6 | First National Bank of Castle (re
liquidation) |
1893 |
6 / 7 | H-Y (correspondents include Helena
National Bank; M.W. Johnson; Kansas Loan and Trust Company; Knauth,
Nachod and Kuhne; Len Lewis; Petronella Linden [in German]; M.E.
Manix; Meagher County Court Clerk B.W. Badger; Melville, Fickus and
Company; Merchants and Miners Bank, Philipsburg; Montana Club;
Peckham and Brown; W.D. Pickett; R.R. Purcell; William C. Riddell;
W.C. Rommel; Rodney Smith; John B. Stone; George W. Tanner; Jennie
Thies; U.S. Army; U.S. Treasury Dept.) |
1893 |
6 / 8 | B-F (correspondents include F.S.
Bedell; August Biebel; William M. Blackford; Board of Lady Managers
of the World's Columbian Exposition; L.M. Boyce; Mark Bray; John
Edgerton for E.D. Edgerton and Company; Edgerton and Hefferlin;
First National Bank, Philipsburg) |
1894 |
6 / 9 | L-W (correspondents include Mary S.
McKay; E.W. McNeal; Meagher County Clerk of Court B.W. Badger;
Marysville Gazette; Felix B. Nardelli; National Postage Movement;
Charles H. Peck, Banker; Peckham and Brown; Governor John Rickards;
W.C. Tonkin; E.W. Toole; U.S. Army; U.S. Treasury Dept.; Utah
National Bank; J.G. Wittwer) |
1894 |
7 / 1 | B-T (correspondents include R.J.
Anderson; William M. Blackford; Butte and Boston Mining Company;
Charles Dahler; C.F. Ellis and Company; Langstroth Mechanical
Ledger; Charles R. Leonard; John McMahon; Montana Coal and Coke
Company; W.H. Nichols and Brother; Joseph Novak; W. Passavant;
Peckham and Brown; Martin Pedersen; William T. Pigott; A.D. Ryder;
E.W. Toole) |
1895 |
7 / 2 | B-S (correspondents include Barr Cash
and Package Carrier Company; William M. Blackford; M. Brundage;
Elmer Clark; Colorado and Cripple Creek Investment Company; E.D.
Edgerton and Company; F.P. Fremont; A.C. Gormley; C.W. Hackett
Hardware Company; R.E. Hamilton; Thomas S. Howell; Imperial Gold
Mining Company; P.C. Krigbaum; Charles R. Leonard; H.S. Magraw; A.J.
McMillan; H.A. Milot; A.H. Nelson; W.H. Nichols and Brother; Hubert
Nicholson; H.A. Niedenhofen; Osborne and Murphy Company; John
Pickering; Walter Richmond; Granville Stuart) |
1896 |
7 / 3 | C-N (correspondents include Clark,
Dodge and Company; C.W. Higley; J.O. Hudnutt and Company;
miscellaneous telegrams) |
undated |
Outgoing Correspondence |
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Box/Folder | ||
8 / 1-8 | Letterpress copies |
1866-1881 |
9 / 1-8 | Letterpress copies |
1882-1888 |
10 / 1-8 | Letterpress copies |
1889-1890 |
11 / 1-8 | Letterpress copies |
1890-1891 |
12 / 1-8 | Letterpress copies |
1891-1893 |
13 / 1-10 | Letterpress copies (includes letters
of A.W. Lyman, Eugene T. Wilson, and T.H. Kleinschmidt, examiners) |
1893-1895 |
14 / 1-3 | Letterpress copies |
1895-1896 |
14 / 4 | Miscellaneous rough drafts of letters |
undated |
14 / 5-6 | Letterpress books: mining |
1875-1879 |
15 / 1 | Letterpress book: E.W. Knight,
personal |
1871-1884 |
15 / 2-3 | Letterpress books: "bank special" |
1877-1884, 1887-1894 |
16 / 1-2 | Letterpress copies: "bullion letters" |
1880-1887 |
16 / 3-9 | Telegrams |
1874-1884 |
17 / 1-7 | Telegrams |
1884-1889 |
18 / 1-2 | Telegrams |
1889, 1895-1896 |
18 / 3-5 | Stenographers' notebooks in shorthand |
1889-1892, 1895 |
Interoffice Correspondence |
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Box/Folder | ||
18 / 6-7 | Letterpress copies and originals |
1866-1895, undated |
Court Papers |
||
Box/Folder | ||
19 / 1 | Legal docket |
1894-1897 |
19 / 2-3 | Miscellaneous cases involving First
National Bank |
1866-1895 |
19 / 4 | Miscellaneous |
1869-1891 |
Financial Records |
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Box/Folder | ||
19 / 5 | General and individual ledger |
1866 |
Volume | ||
1-17 | General ledgers |
1866-1896 |
18-37 | Individual ledgers [alphabetical
within each year or group of years; some have index in volume, some
in separate volume labelled "a"] |
1866-1896 |
38-50 | General ledger balances |
1866-1896 |
51-100 | Individual daily balances
[alphabetical within each year or portion of year] |
1867-1896 |
101- 138 | Cash book [additional cash book
entries, 1866, in Averages book] |
1866-1896 |
139- 156 | Counter cash books [139 includes
ledger entries for 1866-1867] |
1866-1896 |
157- 206 | Deposits paid [alphabetical within
each year or group of years] |
1866-1890 |
207- 214 | Deposits received [U.S. notes] |
1866-1881 |
215- 232 | Deposits received [alphabetical
within each year or group of years] |
1881-1890 |
233- 248 | Exchange record |
1871-1888 |
Box/Folder | ||
20 / 1 | Advertisement expenses |
1872-1891 |
20 / 2-3 | Assay record |
1867-1870 |
20 / 4 | Assay reports: U.S. Assay Office,
Helena |
1880-1884 |
20 / 5 | Assay reports: miscellaneous |
1876-1885 |
20 / 6 | Assayer's day book |
1870 |
20 / 7 | Assayer's ledger |
1874 |
20 / 8 | Averages book [also includes cash
book entries, 1866] |
1867-1874 |
21 / 1 | Bank balances |
1894 January |
21 / 2 | Bank books [samples] |
1870-1896 |
Volume | ||
249- 250 | Bill registers |
1866-1882 |
251- 252 | Bill and discount journals |
1866-1886 |
Box/Folder | ||
21 / 3 | Bills for merchandise purchased for
bank |
1866 |
21 / 4 | Blank forms: U.S. Controller of
Currency |
Circa 1870- 1899 |
21 / 5 | Blotter used first two months of bank
in Helena |
1866 |
21 / 6 | Bond and warrant ledger |
1890-1895 |
21 / 7 | Bradstreet reports: C-W [re financial
rating] |
1886-1895 |
21 / 8 | Bullion book |
1891-1896 |
21 / 9 | Bullion memoranda: gold |
1866-1879 |
21 / 10 | Bullion memoranda: silver |
1869-1879 |
21 / 11 | Bullion purchases |
1871-1878 |
22 / 1 | Cash items account book |
1884 |
22 / 2 | Cashier's report |
1869 |
22 / 3 | Certificates of deposit payment
deferral agreements |
1893 |
Volume | ||
253- 254 | Certificates of deposit, etc. |
1888, undated |
Box/Folder | ||
22 / 4 | Checks, drafts, vouchers [samples] |
1867-1895 |
22 / 5-7 | Clearings |
1889-1892 |
Volume | ||
255 | Clearings |
1894-1895 |
Box/Folder | ||
22 / 8 | Clearings: paying teller |
1892 |
23 / 1-2 | Clearings: paying teller |
1892-1893 |
23 / 3 | Clearings: receiving teller |
1890 |
24 / 1-3 | Clearings: receiving teller |
1890-1892 |
25 / 1 | Collection account books |
1877-1880 |
25 / 2-3 | Collection Department journals |
1893-1896 |
25 / 4 | Collection receipts |
1893-1894 |
Volume | ||
256- 264 | Collection registers |
1882-1896 |
Box/Folder | ||
25 / 5 | Collection registers, country
accounts |
1878-1886 |
Volume | ||
265- 268 | Collection registers, country
accounts |
1886-1896 |
269 | Credit book [only pages 200-214 used] |
1866 |
Box/Folder | ||
26 / 1 | Currency account book |
1876-1877 |
Volume | ||
270- 271 | Deposit certificate register |
1866-1882 |
272- 273 | Deposit certificate register: demand |
1882-1896 |
274- 277 | Deposit certificate register: time |
1881-1896 |
Box/Folder | ||
26 / 2 | Deposits |
1867-1868 |
Volume | ||
278- 278A | Discount ledger and index |
1885-1890 |
279- 285 | Discount registers |
1866-1892 |
286 | Draft register: First National Bank,
New York |
1891-1895 |
287 | Draft register: New York, Billings,
Bozeman, and Fort Benton banks |
1886-1889 |
288 | Draft register: Omaha National Bank |
1896 |
289 | Draft register: St. Louis and San
Francisco banks |
1889-1893 |
Box/Folder | ||
26 / 3 | Express company receipts: Holladay
Overland Mail and Express Company |
1866-1867 |
26 / 4-6 | Express company receipts: Wells,
Fargo and Company |
1867-1877 |
26 / 7 | Express company receipts: Union
Pacific Railroad |
1879-1882 |
26 / 8 | Express company receipts: Wells,
Fargo and Company |
1884-1889 |
Volume | ||
290 | Extension certificates |
1894-1896 |
291 | Gold and silver shipments |
1878-1887 |
Box/Folder | ||
26 / 9 | Gold deposits |
1870-1874 |
26 / 10 | Gold dust memorandum books |
1867-1869 |
27 / 1 | Gold sales |
1870-1872 |
27 / 2 | S.T. Hauser's "special" account books |
1871-1872, 1882 |
27 / 3 | Indebtedness of various people and
companies |
undated |
27 / 4 | Index: collaterals [index to filing
system?] |
undated |
27 / 5 | Insurance policies |
1866-1894 |
Volume | ||
292- 293 | Journals |
1866-1895 |
Box/Folder | ||
27 / 6 | Ledger [S.T. Hauser personal?] |
1870 |
27 / 7-8 | Ledger: U.S. Officers |
1890-1897 |
28 / 1 | Loan account book |
1889-1894 |
28 / 2-5 | Loans due |
1888-1889, 1894, 1896 |
Volume | ||
294- 297 | Mail balances |
1887-1892 |
Box/Folder | ||
28 / 6 | Notes dues |
1873 |
28 / 7 | Notes sent for collection |
1890-1895 |
28 / 8 | Ore book |
1873-1874 |
28 / 9 | Ore shipments |
1871-1881 |
Volume | ||
298 | Ore shipments |
1876 |
Box/Folder | ||
28 / 10 | Ore shipments: insurance |
1875-1877 |
28 / 11 | Overdrafts |
1877 |
29 / 1 | "Polygraph": Montana National Bank,
Second National Bank, Cruse Savings Bank |
1889 |
Volume | ||
299- 302 | Railroad remittance journals |
1890-1893 |
Box/Folder | ||
29 / 2-3 | Railroad remittance letters
[letterpress books: include lists of station agents, conductors,
etc.] |
1883-1885 |
30 / 1-2 | Railroad remittance letters
[letterpress books: include lists of station agents, conductors,
etc.] |
1886-1888 |
31 / 1-2 | Railroad remittance letters
[letterpress books: include lists of station agents, conductors,
etc.] |
1888-1889 |
32 / 1-4 | Railroad remittance letters
[letterpress books: include lists of station agents, conductors,
etc.] |
1890, 1893, 1896 |
33 / 1-8 | Receipts and bills |
1866-1885, 1890-1893 |
Volume | ||
303 | Receipts and bills [scrapbook] |
1888-1889 |
Box/Folder | ||
33 / 9 | Record of college scrip and
miscellaneous warrants |
1871-1880 |
33 / 10 | Reference and information index |
1893 |
Volume | ||
304- 308 | Remittance registers |
1895-1896 |
Box/Folder | ||
33 / 11 | Rent accounts |
1874-1896 |
33 / 12-13 | Rent books (includes E.M. Hoyt) |
1877-1883, 1887-1893 |
34 / 1 | Report of extensions |
1894 |
34 / 2 | Reports of dividends and earnings |
1871-1896 |
34 / 3 | Reports to U.S. Controller of
Currency (monthly) |
1866-1869 |
34 / 4-8 | Reports to U.S. Controller of
Currency (quarterly) |
1866-1896 |
34 / 9-10 | Report to U.S. Controller of Currency
(lists of assets and liabilities) |
1893 September |
34 / 11 | Return of circulation subject to duty
(semi-annual) |
1883-1896 |
34 / 12 | Return to U.S. Commissioner of
Internal Revenue (monthly) |
circa 1860 - 1869 |
34 / 13 | Return to U.S. Treasurer
(semi-annual) |
1867-1890 |
35 / 1 | Safety deposit box rentals |
1889-1897 |
35 / 2 | Savings Department cash book |
1895-1896 |
Volume | ||
309 | Savings Department daily balance book |
1896 |
Box/Folder | ||
35 / 3 | Savings Department daily balance book |
1896 |
35 / 4-5 | Statements of account (letterpress
books) |
1867-1874, 1877-1879 |
35 / 6 | Statement: First National Bank |
1894 |
35 / 7 | Tax assessment lists |
1895-1896 |
35 / 8 | Tax receipts [scattered] |
1873-1895 |
Volume | ||
310 | Teller: paying |
1885-1886 |
310 A | Teller: paying |
1891 |
311 | Teller: receiving |
1885-1886 |
Box/Folder | ||
35 / 9 | Teller's cash book |
1894-1895 |
36 / 1-2 | Teller's cash books |
1895-1896 |
36 / 3 | Teller's counter cash books |
1894-1895 |
36 / 4 | Tickler |
1882 |
36 / 5 | Miscellaneous |
1877-1895 |
Legal Documents |
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Box/Folder | ||
37 / 1 | Abstract of Title: Chris Kenck
Addition |
1891 |
37 / 2-4 | Agreements and contracts |
1865-1877, 1881-1896 |
37 / 5 | Bonds |
1866-1889 |
37 / 6-7 | Escrow agreements |
1882-1895 |
37 / 8-12 | Indentures: First National Bank |
1866-1895 |
37 / 13 | Indentures: Montana Company Ltd. to
Thomas Cruse |
188- |
37 / 14 | Indentures: miscellaneous |
1865-1903 |
38 / 1 | Licenses: First National Bank |
1866-1872 |
38 / 2 | Licenses: First National Bank Assay
Office |
1867-1870 |
38 / 3 | Licenses: miscellaneous |
1867-1870 |
38 / 4 | Notary Public book of T.H.
Kleinschmidt and E.W. Knight |
1868-1879 |
38 / 5 | Ore contracts |
1874-1876, undated |
38 / 6 | Powers of attorney |
1866-1895 |
38 / 7 | Miscellaneous: First National Bank |
1866-1894 |
38 / 8 | Miscellaneous |
1859-1899 |
Organization |
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Box/Folder | ||
38 / 9 | Articles of association |
1865 |
38 / 10 | Directors' stock ledger |
1868-1895 |
38 / 11 | Organization certificates |
1865-1866 |
Volume | ||
312 | Record book (includes articles of
association, bylaws, minutes) |
1966-1896 |
Box/Folder | ||
38 / 12 | Stock certificates |
circa 1860 - 1879 |
Volume | ||
313 | Stock certificate stub book |
circa 1860 - 1879 |
314 | Stock certificate book |
circa 1880-1889 |
315 | Stock record |
1866-1894 |
Box/Folder | ||
38 / 13 | Stock record |
1895 |
38 / 14 | Stock transfer receipts |
1866-1879 |
38 / 15 | Stockholder proxies |
1867, 1869 |
38 / 16 | Miscellaneous |
1866, 1869 |
Subject Files |
||
Box/Folder | ||
39 / 1 | Bank statements and ads from other
banks |
1867-1888 |
39 / 2 | H.H. Barnes (First National Bank of
Castle) |
1893-1894 |
39 / 3 | Benjamin C. Brooke |
1889-1893 |
39 / 4 | Cataract Mining and Concentrating
Company (includes indentures, delinquent taxes) |
1879-1894 |
39 / 5 | Dawson County financial statement |
1883 |
39 / 6 | Elkhorn Mining Company (includes
assay reports, power of attorney, list of employees) |
1883-1884 |
39 / 7-12 | First National Bank of Fort Benton
(includes cypher book, loans, discounts, overdrafts, statements of
condition) |
1880-1882 |
39 / 13 | Ellen F. Hauser (includes
correspondence from John Theodore Klein, Ben Farrar, John W. Herder) |
1872-1875 |
39 / 14 | Gustave Helbigsgott (includes letter
in German) |
1868-1878 |
39 / 15-18 | Helena National Bank exchange of
stock |
1894-1897 |
39 / 19 | Inventory of livery stable |
1891 |
39 / 20 | Hugh Kirkendall bankruptcy |
1871-1874 |
39 / 21 | Albert Kleinschmidt (includes list of
deeds, legal documents) |
1869-1886 |
39 / 22-25 | T.H. Kleinschmidt (includes
correspondence, legal documents, certificates, stock certificates,
miscellany) |
1866-1904 |
39 / 26 | List of mining gulches |
undated |
39 / 27 | Little Jennie Mine (includes
statements of work performed, financial records) |
1884-1886 |
39 / 28 | Military papers (includes discharge
for William Maxwell, pay statement for [?] Torrey) |
1869, 1874 |
39 / 29 | John H. Ming's collateral bond
collections |
1887 |
39 / 30 | The Montana Company (includes
payroll, minutes, statement of property) |
1878, undated |
40 / 1-2 | New bank building (includes
specifications, payroll) |
1886 |
40 / 3 | Nez Perce Expedition certificates of
voluntary service |
1877 |
40 / 4 | North American Gold and Silver Mining
Company of Montana (includes surveying expenses) |
1869 |
40 / 5 | Report on the * * * Mine |
1892 |
40 / 6 | Rocky Mountain Gazette stock held as
collateral (includes agreements and stock certificates) |
1872-1893 |
40 / 7-10 | S.T. Hauser and Company, Butte
statements of condition |
1878-1881 |
40 / 11 | Sands Cattle and Land Company |
1887 |
40 / 12 | Charles Tacke Estate |
1880-1890 |
40 / 13 | Vawter and Company (includes legal
documents, trial balance sheets, inventory) |
1881 |
40 / 14 | James Vivion property |
1867-1868 |
40 / 15 | Rudolf Von Tobel (includes
correspondence from R.B. Gelatt, J.W. Skinner, N.B. White, L.W.
Chaney; licenses; receipts) |
1883-1884 |
40 / 16 | J.C. Walker and Brother assets |
1876 |
40 / 17 | Lorenz and Josephine Wesslick |
1886-1888 |
40 / 18 | Yellowstone Park Transportation
Company comparative statement |
1895-1896 |
Miscellany |
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Box/Folder | ||
40 / 19 | Bank exchange list |
1883 |
40 / 20 | Clipping (re banks swindled by man
named Whitney) |
undated |
Volume | ||
316- 319 | Signature books (arranged
alphabetically within each book) |
1866-1896 |
Box/Folder | ||
40 / 21 | Telegraphic cypher codes |
1873-1891 |
40 / 22 | Ephemera (includes invitations;
directions for laying parquet floors; Items of interest... by First
State Bank of Livingston; premium list of Montana Agricultural,
Mineral and Mechanical Association; information and statistics re
erection of State Capitol; Shriners brochure) |
1871-1897 |
40 / 23 | Miscellaneous |
undated |
First National Bank Receivership Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Incoming Correspondence |
||
Box/Folder | ||
41 / 1 | Eugene T. Wilson, examiner-in-charge:
B-K (correspondents include Bank of Boulder; James Donovan; First
National Bank of Chicago; Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne; |
1896 September |
41 / 2 | Erasmus D. Edgerton, receiver: B-V
(correspondents include Bank of Boulder; W.E. Cullen; James Ettien;
First National Bank of St. Paul; M. Grotthiuss; Knauth, Nachod and
Kuhne; Charles R. Leonard; Star, Thomas and Chamberlain; U.S.
Controller of the Currency) |
1896 September- 1897 January |
41 / 3 | J. Sam Brown, receiver: B-W
(correspondents include L.M. Bailey; Bank of Boulder; A.H. Clark;
Ransom Cooper; George F. Cope; E.D. Edgerton; First National Bank of
St. Paul; Helena Business Men's Association; Hope Mining Company;
H.P. Kennett; E.W. Knight; Montana Attorney General C.B. Nolan;
National Bank of the Republic; W.W. Sterling; U.S. Controller of the
Currency; M.B. Whitney; A.R. Wilcox) |
1897 January-October |
41 / 4 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver: C-U
(correspondents include Thomas H. Carter; E.D. Edgerton; [---]
Flynn; Piatt and Heath; St. Paul National Bank; Gustave Seepang;
U.S. Surveyor General E.W. Beattie) |
1897 October-December |
41 / 5 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver: B-W
(correspondents include Thomas H. Carter; Crawford Brothers; Thomas
Cruse; O.C. Dallas; F.H. Donaldson: James Donovan; E.D. Edgerton;
First National Bank of Butte; Gilbert and Fell; A.C. Jardine; G.D.
Keeney; Joseph Kenck; E.W. Knight; Isom Preuitt; Pat Ryan; Thomas
Ryan; R.E. Samson; Lenox Smith; William R. Sweeney; C.B. Towers) |
1898 |
41 / 6-7 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver: B-Y
(correspondents include Bank of Fergus County; August Biebel;
William M. Blackford; Edgar Boardman; Cooper and Cooper; E.D.
Edgerton; Gilbert and Fell; A.C. Jardine; Carrie M. Jones; William
I. Lippincott; E.M. Porter; Isom Preuitt; St. Paul National Bank;
Melvin Strain; E.W. Toole; N.M. Walker; William Wallace; Thomas E.
Wing; Yellowstone National Bank) |
1899 |
41 / 8 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver: B-W
(correspondents include B.W. Badger; H.B. Baker; William M.
Blackford; Cooper and Cooper; E.D. Edgerton; William Foster; James
Hall; J.B. Hedges; C.E. Hess; Tillie Jacobson; A.C. Jardine; W.L.
Jenkins; James Jobb; Montana Historical Society Librarian Laura E.
Howey; Joseph Reid; Edward Scharnikow; N.M. Walker; John Wendel;
A.S. Wright and Company) |
1900 |
41 / 9 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver: B-Y
(correspondents include August Biebel; William M. Blackford; Massena
Bullard; Deer Lodge County Clerk; George E. DeSteiguer; E.D.
Edgerton; Charles J. Geier; S.T. Hauser; Charles Heuer; F.W.
Lingquist; S.H. Powell; Rocky Fork Town and Electric Company; C.A.
Spofford; N.M. Walker; Charles K. Wells; P.C. Weydert; H. Yeager) |
1901 |
41 / 10 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver: A-W
(correspondents include R.S. Alley; A.R. Beaton; Chicago Underground
Trolley Traction Company; E.D. Edgerton; William Foster; Rocky Fork
Town and Electric Company; Jake Ross; U.S. Land Office, Bozeman;
N.M. Walker) |
1902 |
Outgoing Correspondence |
||
Box/Folder | ||
41 / 11 | Eugene T. Wilson, examiner in charge |
1896 September-October |
41 / 12 | Erastus D. Edgerton, receiver |
1896 September- 1897 January |
41 / 13 | J. Sam Brown, receiver |
1897 January-September |
41 / 14-17 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver |
1897 November- 1899 December |
42 / 1-3 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver |
1899 December- 1903 April |
42 / 4 | Eugene T. Wilson, receiver: letters
to people receiving dividends |
1899 August- 1903 April |
Court Papers |
||
Box/Folder | ||
42 / 5 | Report of litigation |
1890-1897- April 1903 |
42 / 6 | Transcripts of judgements |
1901 |
42 / 7 | Miscellaneous |
undated |
Financial Records |
||
Box/Folder | ||
42 / 8 | Asset ledger |
1896 |
42 / 9 | C.W. Cannon trusteeship statement |
1900-1901 |
Volume | ||
320 | Cash book |
1896-1897 |
Box/Folder | ||
42 / 10 | Claims proved and dividends paid
(index) |
1897-1902 |
42 / 11 | Collections account book |
1897-1899 |
42 / 12 | Depositors at time of suspension
(index) |
1896 |
42 / 13 | S.T. Hauser's liability to bank at
time of closure |
1896-1897 |
43 / 1 | Insurance policies |
1896-1897 |
43 / 2 | Insurance record |
1897-1900 |
Volume | ||
321- 321A | Ledger and index |
1896-1897 |
Box/Folder | ||
43 / 3 | Liabilities of First National Bank at
time of suspension |
1896 |
43 / 4 | Rent account book |
1896-1898 |
43 / 5-6 | Reports to Controller of the Currency
(schedules) |
1897-1898 |
43 / 7 | Salary account book |
1898 |
43 / 8 | Unclaimed receiver's dividends |
1903 |
43 / 9 | Miscellaneous |
undated |
Legal Documents |
||
Box/Folder | ||
43 / 10 | Agreements and contracts |
1886-1900 |
43 / 11 | Proofs of claims |
1896-1897 |
Organization |
||
Box/Folder | ||
43 / 12 | Stockholder list |
1896 |
Miscellany |
||
Box/Folder | ||
43 / 13 | Stenographers' notebooks |
1897, 1899 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Bank mergers
- Banks and banking
- Gold mines and mining
- Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Jefferson County
Corporate Names
- First National Bank of Helena (creator)
Geographical Names
- Butte (Mont.)--Commerce
- Cable City (Mont.)--Industries
- Castle (Mont.)--Commerce
- Deer Lodge (Mont.)--Commerce
- Helena (Mont.)--Commerce
- Jefferson City (Mont.)--Industries
- Philipsburg (Mont.)--Industries
- Wickes (Mont.)--Industries