16689. Union Trust Company (New York, NY)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
trust company
Start Date
October 24, 1907
Location
New York, New York (40.714, -74.006)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
7216d14b

Response Measures

Accommodated withdrawals, Borrowed from banks or large institutions, Public signal of financial health, Capital injected

Other: Support agreement among trust companies, gold engagements and deposits to shore up reserves; cooperative relief by a committee of trust company presidents.

Description

Contemporary articles report a run on the Union Trust Company in late October 1907 (headline: RUN ON UNION TRUST CO.) followed within days by suspension of payments and appointment of a receiver (report dated Oct 26). Articles place this episode squarely within the wider Oct–Nov 1907 trust-company panic; no clear article states the bank reopened, and a receiver was named, so classification as run → suspension → closure is most consistent.

Events (4)

1. October 24, 1907 Run
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Part of the widespread October 1907 trust-company panic and runs on multiple New York trust companies (financial storm of 1907).
Measures
Articles describe industry support agreements by trust company presidents (depositing stock with committee) to shore up confidence; additional gold engaged and support arranged.
Newspaper Excerpt
RUN ON UNION TRUST CO.
Source
newspapers
2. October 26, 1907 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
C. S. Sweetland was appointed receiver.
Source
newspapers
3. October 26, 1907 Suspension
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Suspension occurred amid the same 1907 financial storm and runs on trust companies; reporting indicates the institution suspended payments and a receiver was appointed shortly after the run.
Newspaper Excerpt
suspended payment temporarily. C. S. Sweetland was appointed receiver.
Source
newspapers
4. November 6, 1907 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
announcement by Mr. King, president of the Union Trust Co., ... agreement ... Trust Company of American and Lincoln Trust company ... to deposit their stock with a committee of trust company presidents ... were to receive all the support required, cleared the trust company situation.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (3)

Article from The News-Democrat, October 24, 1907

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Article Text

NEW YORK SITUATION BRIGHTER, BUT THREE MORE BANKS SHUT TO THE PEOPLE:-There is no doubt that the Providence Banking Institutions are sound, ably conducted Small Institutions, the Hamilton, nd have ample resources. DON'T BE FRIGHTENED ! Empire City Savings and 12th Ward Banks, Suspend Payments. More Money Deposited in Trust RUN ON UNION TRUST CO. GARDNER TELLS Company of America Than Taken Out-"Things Look Pretty Good BY SMALL DEPOSITORS Now," Says Sec'y Cortelyou. WHY HONEST MEN


Article from The Ocala Evening Star, October 26, 1907

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Article Text

We Have Just Received a Lot of Italian Hand-Painted China OCALA MUSIC CO. THE RECEDING WAVES by the Union Trust Company, on which a run was made, that it had the Financial Storm Wreck a Few suspended payment temporarily. C. S. Sweetland was appointed receiver. Small Institutions. The institution has individual deposits New York, Oct. 26.-Notwithstandexceeding $25,000,000. the opinion of leading financiers, Runs on the Lincoln Trust Co. and the worst of the financial flurry the Trust Company of North Amerover, four bank suspensions OCica and other local institutions conrred yesterday. tinued, but the worst is over. The Pittsburg stock exchange is The United States Exchange Bank, still closed. Harlem institution, did not open for


Article from Bismarck Daily Tribune, November 7, 1907

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Article Text

New York, N. Y., Nov. 6.-General conditions in the financial situation were favorable today. Runs on trust companies had practically ceased under the encouraging support of the trust compact. Gold engagements were further increased and the stock market rose buoyantly. The announcement by Mr. King, president of the Union Trust Co., early in the morning that aa agreement had been reached by which the Trust Company of American and Lincoln Trust company were to deposit their stock with a committee of trust company presidents and in consideration of this, were to receive all the support required, cleared the trust company situation. Now that this danger is removed, it is believed the situation will gradually simmer down with the continuous arrival of gold, until the stringency is converted into a plethora of reserve money in the banks, which usually follows a crisis. Additional gold engaged was announced today of $1,000,000 on account of Lazard Freres and $500,000 for Montreal. This brings the total gold engagements for America to $37,500,000, which would make a legal reserve against deposits of $150,000,000. The gold which arrived yesterday was deposited today and that brought by the Lusitania will soon be in the vaults. While there is still some apprehension regarding the possible effort of