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First National Bank of Kalispell.
First National Bank of
Kalispell Records
1891-1903
3.5 linear feet of shelf
space
The records of the First National Bank of
Kalispell, Montana, include incoming correspondence (1892-1903); a letterpress
volume of outgoing correspondence (1897-1898); court papers (1891-1903);
financial records (1894-1901); and miscellany. There are also small subgroups
for the City of Kalispell; the Fred Langerman liquor business; the Northwestern
Bank of Demersville; James F. Vogt, assignee of A.B. Johnston, General
Merchandise; W.C. Whipps and Company; and W.C. Whipps, Personal.
English
The First National Bank of Kalispell
(Mont.) was chartered on June 19, 1891. Anticipating the establishment of the
city of Kalispell, William C. Whipps had opened the Northwestern Bank in nearby
Demersville in 1891 to be ready to open a bank as soon as the new townsite was
platted. The original officers of the First National Bank were Aaron
Hirshfield, president; G.H. Adams, vice president; W. C. Whipps, cashier; and
George M. Huffaker, assistant cashier. Hirshfield was succeeded as president by
Adams in 1895, and in 1896 by D.R. Peeler. In 1898 Whipps resigned as cashier
and was replaced by assistant cashier R.E. Webster. In addition to their
involvement with the First National Bank, several officers were active in the
City of Kalispell government. W.C. Whipps served as mayor, and cashiers George
M. Huffaker and R.E. Webster served as city treasurer. In 1895 the bank was
briefly involved in the liquidation of the Libby mercantile business of A.B.
Johnston. Originally founded by C.F.W. Hall, the store was taken over in May
1894 by A.B. Johnston. In late 1894 he assigned his assets to the First
National Bank which in turn assigned them to James F. Vogt.
Content Description:
Records include incoming correspondence (1892-1903) from other banks, local
businesses, and area residents; a letterpress volume of outgoing correspondence
(1897-1898); court papers (1891-1903); financial records (1894-1901) consisting
of an individual cash book, a cash blotter, cancelled checks, collections, and
remittances; and miscellany. There are also small subgroups for the City of
Kalispell; the Fred Langerman liquor business; the Northwestern Bank of
Demersville; James F. Vogt, assignee of A.B. Johnston, General Merchandise;
W.C. Whipps and Company; and W.C. Whipps, Personal.
Arrangement:
by series
Acquisition Information:
available upon request
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Montana
Historical Society Archives catalog. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons, or places should search under these terms.
Banks and
banking
Retail trade
General stores
Demersville
(Mont.)--Commerce
Kalispell
(Mont.)--Commerce
Libby
(Mont.)--Commerce
Montana
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection
First National Bank of
Kalispell
Financial Records
Vol. 1
Individual cash book
Oct.1892-
Nov.1894
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 1
A (includes Burton S.
Adams, G.H. Adams, Aultman and Taylor Machinery Company)
1891-1903
2 / 1
Frank M. Leonard, Libby
Townsite Company
1894-1899
Outgoing Correspondence
3 / 1
Letterpress book
Aug.1897- Feb.1898
Financial Records
4 / 1
Financial
condition of Flathead County
1899
James F. Vogt,
Assignee, a.b. Johnston, General Merchandise
Incoming
Correspondence
5 / 1
First
National Bank, Kalispell
Feb.-June 1895
1 / 2
Ba-Bi
(includes Elmer Bader, Bank of Columbia Falls, Geo. D. Barnard & Co., S.P.
Beeman)
1891-1903
2 / 2
Benjamin
Lombard, Jr.
1891-1900
Court
Papers
3 / 2
Bankruptcy proceedings; foreclosures
1899-1900
Financial Records
4 / 2
Kalispell and Missoula County warrants, etc.
1894-1899
5 / 2
Items removed from ledger
1895
Incoming Correspondence
1
/ 3
Bl-Bu (includes Blatchly Company, Lithographers; Jennie
Buffingham; Bunnell and Eno Investment Company)
1893-1903
2
/ 3
L (includes Fred Langerman; Levey Brothers and Company,
Bank Stationers; Libby Butchering Company; Sidney Logan, Flathead County
Attorney)
1891-1903
Court Papers
3 / 3
Executions, summonses, writs of attachment, etc.
1892-1902, n.d.
Financial Records
4 / 3
Lewis and Clark County tax receipt: D.R. Peeler
1898
5 / 3-4
Ledgers
1893-1895
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 4
Robert L. Clinton, Butte and Kalispell attorney
1897-1903
2 / 4
Ma-Mc (includes O.W. McConnell; Angus P. McDonald; Alex
McInnis; B.J. McIntire; H.G. and S.H. McIntire; McKinley National Memorial
Association)
1891-1903
Court Papers
3 / 4
Notices of protest
1891-1903
Financial Records
4 / 4
Promissory notes
1897, 1901
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 5
Ca-Cl
(includes M. Carroll; Thomas H. Carter; J.Z. Clark; W.A. Clark and Brother)
1893-1903
2 / 5
Merchants National Bank, Helena
1894-1897
Financial Records
3 / 5
Cancelled checks drawn on Continental National Bank, Chicago
Aug.-Dec. 1898
4 / 5-7
Remittances: Bank of Columbia Falls
1895-1900
W.c. Whipps And Company, Demersville
Incoming Correspondence
5 / 5
Alex
Linnert and Company; Rogers and Rogers, Livestock Commission Merchants
July-Aug. 1891
1 / 6
Co
(includes N.F. Conklin, Consolidated Time Lock Company, Continental National
Bank, William E. Cosway)
1893-1903
2 / 6
E.J.
Merrin
1895-1897
Financial Records
3 / 6
Cancelled checks drawn on Traders National Bank, Spokane
1899-1900
W.c. Whipps, Personal
Incoming Correspondence
5 / 6
A-P
(includes C. Allard; E.W. and G.D. Beattie; Montana Secretary of State; D.R.
Peeler)
June-Sept. 1891
1 / 7
Cr-Cu
(includes Arthur J. Craven; Thomas Cruse Savings Bank)
1894-1901
2 / 7
Me-Mi
(includes Milburn Manufacturing Company, Fine Carriages; T.R. Miles; Miller and
Lotz)
1891-1903
Financial Records
3 / 7-8
Cancelled checks drawn on Union Bank and Trust Company, Helena
1898, 1901
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 8
D
(includes Daily Financial News; Thomas E. Dawson; Mrs. C.R. Doane; C.R.
Downing)
1891-1903
2 / 8
Montana
(miscellaneous state agencies)
1894-1903
Financial Records
4 / 8
Remittances: First National Bank of Kalispell
1897-1899
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 9
E
(includes Henry Elling, Banker; Banking House of Henry Elling)
1893-1903
2 / 9
William
Muth
1895-1899
Financial Records
3 / 9
Cash
blotter
Oct.1894- Feb.1895
4 / 9
Remittances: Merchants National Bank, Helena
1895-1896
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 10
First
National Bank of ...
1894-1899
2 / 10
Mo-Mu
(includes Montana and Northern Telephone Company; Mosler Safe Company; E.J.
Murray)
1895-1903
Financial Records
3 / 10
Collections: First National Bank of St. Paul
1897-1900
4 / 10
Remittances: Traders National Bank, Spokane
1899-1900
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 11
F
(includes E.S. Farrington; Harvey Fisk and Sons; Flathead County offices)
1895-1903
2 / 11
W.A.
Nelson (Vogt and Nelson)
1899-1901
Financial Records
3 / 11
Collections: Western Loan and Savings Company, Kalispell branch
1899-1903
4 / 11-13
Remittances: Union Bank and Trust Company, Helena
1898-1900
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 12
Great
Northern Express Company; Great Northern Railway Company
1894-1899
2 / 12
Northern Pacific Railroad Company (re holdup at Reed Point)
1894
Financial Records
3 / 12-14
Collections: wholesalers and merchants, A-Z
1895-1900
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 13
G
(includes August Gast Bank Note Company; Gerson, Mead and Company; H.W.
Gilbert; T.A. Gillespie; Gilpin and Lindsay; W.H. Griffin)
1894-1903
2 / 13
N
(includes National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City; National Bank of Commerce,
Minneapolis; National Postage Movement; Neff and Plummer; L.D. Newcomb; W.N.
Noffsinger; C.B. Nolan; Northwestern Stamp Works)
1891-1903
1 / 14
Hanover National Bank
1894-1900
2 / 14
O
(includes O'Brien Company; Old National Bank, Spokane; Simon Oppenheimer;
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company)
1893-1903
Financial Records
4 / 14
Road
sprinkling tax
1893
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 15
J.M.
Harrigan, Missoula Board of Trade
1895-1897
2 / 15
John
W. Pace
1891
Legal Documents
4 / 15
Miscellaneous
1899-1902
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 16
W.A.
Hillis, South Libby Townsite
1894-1900
2 / 16
H.B.
Palmer
1894-1896
Miscellany
4 / 16
Catalogs; Helena Clearing House resolution; New York Clearing House
constitutional amendments; War Revenue Act summary; etc.
1893-1902
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 17
Joseph
Hirshberg
1893-1899
2 / 17
P
(includes Park County District Court; D.R. Peeler; H.W. Peeler)
1891-1903
Miscellany
4 / 17
Interest tables for national banks
1900
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 18
Ha-He
(includes J.M. Harris; Charles S. Hartman; C.C. Harvey; Will Hayward; J.E.
Hein; Walter Hetrick)
1891-1903
2 / 18
R
(includes J.W. Rafferty; William Read; Fred Reichenbach; Rickards and Ellis;
J.H. Riley; Sarah Rood; T. Rooke)
1891-1903
Miscellany
4 / 18
List
of property sold at sheriff's sale
1897
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 19
George
M. Huffaker
1894-1897
2 / 19
J.H.
Sherburne
1897-1901
Miscellany
4 / 19
Receipt for steerage passage for P.A. Carlson from Gothenburg, Sweden, to
Kalispell
1902
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 20
Hi-Hu
(includes Ed Hicks; H.S. Howell; Robert Hulse; G.F. Humbert)
1893-1903
2 / 20
Sa-Sm
(includes Archie St. Peter; Julius Schubert; Henry Sieben; Frank Sizer; J.E.
Skyles; Charles W. Slack; J.W. Smith, Fargo Loan Agency)
1891-1903
Miscellany
4 / 20
Subscription list for funeral of Capt. _____ Townsend
1893
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 21
I
(includes Irwin-Hodson Company, Lithographers)
1895-1903
2 / 21
Jere
Sullivan; Joseph J. Sullivan
1899-1903
City Of Kalispell [W.c. Whipps, Mayor; G.m. Huffaker
And R.e. Webster, Treasurer]
Incoming Correspondence
4 / 21
C-T
1894
1 / 22
J
(includes Isaac Jackson; W.F. Jellison; Joseph B. Johnson; Allen B. Johnston)
1894-1901
2 / 22
Sn-Sw
(includes Spokane and Eastern Trust Company; State Mining and Immigration
Committee; James Stonechest; J. Switzer)
1891-1903
Fred Langerman, Wholesale Liquor Dealer
Financial Records
4 / 22
Cancelled checks drawn on First National Bank, Kalispell
1899-1900
Incoming Correspondence
1 / 23
K
(includes Kalispell Water and Electric Company; J.S. Keerl; Charles P. Kellogg
Company; Julius Kessler and Company; J.W. Kinsley; M.C. Kinzer; Joseph Kipp)
1893-1903
2 / 23
T
(includes Theis and Barroll, Bankers; Thompson Music Company; P.S. Timby;
Traders National Bank; M.E. Traver)
1894-1903
Northwestern Bank, Demersville
Incoming Correspondence
4 / 23
A-W
Apr.-Nov. 1891
1 / 24
Kl-Ku
(includes Walter Klingbeil; Knauth, Nachaud and Kuhne, Bankers; Kootenai Meat
Company; Kountze Brothers, Bankers)
1893-1901
2 / 24
Union
Bank and Trust Company, Helena (George L. Ramsey, cashier)
1898-1901
2 / 25
United
States (miscellaneous government agencies)
1893-1903
2 / 26
Upper
Columbia Navigation and Tramway Company and International Transportation
Company
1897
2 / 27
U
(includes J.M. Underwood)
1897-1903
2 / 28
J.F.
Vogt (re liquidation of A.B. Johnston, General Merchandise; real estate, etc.)
1891-1900
2 / 29
V
(includes B.C. Van Houtin; John Vest; John Volk)
1893-1903
2 / 30
Wa-We
(includes H.L. Walker; John P. Wall; Thomas O. Wallis; W.P. Waters; Elbert
Weed; Western Loan and Savings Bank, Salt Lake City; Western Montana National
Bank, Missoula)
1891-1903
2 / 31
Wh-Wo
(includes E.E. Whitcomb; B. Whitehead; Fred Whiteside; Albert Winston; Frank
Woods; T.C. Wooten)
1893-1903
2 / 32
Y-Z
1896-1899