St Louis Trust Company - St Louis, MO

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: trust company
Start Date: December 19, 1895
Location: St Louis, Missouri (38.627, -90.198)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 5739eda9

Response Measures

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Description

Article (Dec 19, 1895) reports appointment of Col. S. W. Fordyce as receiver for the St. Louis Trust Company (court proceeding). No run or withdrawals are described; a receiver was appointed indicating the bank was placed into receivership/closure. I treat this as a suspension leading to closure (receiver assigned).

Events (1)

1. December 19, 1895 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: charged Col. S. W. Fordyce and the St. Louis Trust Company with collusion, when the Colonel was appointed receiver.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. December 19, 1895 The Daily Texarkanian Texarkana, AR

Article from The Daily Texarkanian, December 19, 1895

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Article Text

Did Not Want to See Him. During a trial in Judge Williams' court at Little Rock, on Tuesday, Mr. Hemingway, of the law firm of Hemingway & Rose, charged Col. S. W. Fordyce and the St. Louis Trust Company with collusion, when the Colonel was appointed receiver. Col. Fordyce arose and denounced the firm of lawyers making the charge as falsifiers, and when the Colonel delivered himself of this speech, he crossed over to where Hemingway was sitting and said, "Do you wish to see me on the street?" to which Mr. Hemingway replied, "No sir." Things looked squally for a while in that Court room.