10820. St Louis National Bank (St Louis, MO)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
1112
Charter Number
1112
Start Date
June 28, 1877
Location
St Louis, Missouri (38.627, -90.198)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
7c9b2c73

Response Measures

None

Description

Contemporary reports describe the collapse/failure of the St. Louis National Bank in late June 1877 and attribute it to post-1873 financial contraction. Articles do not describe a depositor run; this appears to be a suspension/closure (failure) likely leading to receivership.

Events (2)

1. June 28, 1877 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
collapse of the St. Louis National Bank ... the St. Louis failure.
Source
newspapers
2. June 28, 1877 Suspension
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Attributed to prolonged effects of the Panic of 1873 and general shrinkage of values/commercial stagnation leading to bank failure.
Newspaper Excerpt
the collapse of the St. Louis National Bank ... The shrinkage of values which has brought financial ruin ... is given as the attributable cause of the St. Louis failure.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)

Article from The Dallas Daily Herald, June 28, 1877

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Article Text

Familiar With Failures. Nashville American : The country is coming to be so familiar with mercantile failures that the collapse of the St. Louis National Bank does not create that profound sensation which might have followed the announcem under other circumstances. Since the panic of 1873 failures have been as common as grasshoppers and potato bugs, While it would seem reasonable that four years subsequent to the panic of 1873 would embrace a period sufficient to outlive the, effects of that disastrous year, it will not be forgotten that the financial policy of the government from which that panic was the legitimate outgrowth has not been charged, but still afflicts the country in a sort of chronic form. The shrinkjuge of values which has brought financial ruin upon so many businesses and produced such general commercial stagnation, is given as the attributable cause of the St. Louis failure. A policy at war with the trade interests of the people continue to produce its legitimate fruit.


Article from The Dallas Weekly Herald, June 30, 1877

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Article Text

# Familiar With Failures. Nashville American: The country is coming to be so familiar with mercantile failures that the collapse of the St. Louis National Bank does not create that profound sensation which might have followed the announcement under other circumstances. Since the panic of 1873 failures have been as common as grasshoppers and potato bugs. While it would seem reasonable that four years subsequent to the panic of 1873 would embrace a period sufficient to outlive the effects of that disastrous year, it will not be forgotten that the financial policy of the government from which that panic was the legitimate outgrowth has not been charged, but still afflicts the country in a sort of chronic form. The shrinkage of values which has brought financial ruin upon so many businesses and produced such general commercial stagnation, is given as the attributable cause of the St. Louis failure. A policy at war with the trade interests of the people continue to produce its legitimate fruit.