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In Hands of Receiver. The controller of the currency was advised today of the suspension of the First National Bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000. R. D. Garrett has been appointed receiver.
20000. First National Bank (Friendly, WV)
Bank Information
- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- national
- Bank ID
- 5814
- Charter Number
- 5814
- Start Date
- July 27, 1908
- Location
- Friendly, West Virginia (39.516, -81.059)
Metadata
- Model
- gpt-5-mini
- Short Digest
f3cb530a9faead2c
Response Measures
None
Receivership Details
- Depositor recovery rate
- 89.0%
- Date receivership started
- 1908-07-25
- Date receivership terminated
- 1911-05-01
- OCC cause of failure
- Fraud
- Share of assets assessed as good
- 16.5%
- Share of assets assessed as doubtful
- 50.4%
- Share of assets assessed as worthless
- 33.0%
Description
Multiple contemporaneous newspapers (July 27–28, 1908) report the First National Bank of Friendly, W. Va., suspended and R. D. Garrett (or R. S. Garrett in one OCR variant) appointed receiver. No articles report a depositor run prior to suspension. Later (Jan 1909) reporting records the cashier Elbert L. Morgan convicted of misappropriation, describing him as having 'wrecked' the bank; this supports that the bank remained closed and in receivership. OCR variants of receiver initial (R. D. / R. S.) and small differences in reported capital ($25,000 vs $26,000) are present in sources.
Events (5)
1.
May 15, 1901
Chartered
- Source
- historical_nic
2.
July 25, 1908
Receivership
- Source
- historical_nic
3.
July 27, 1908
Receivership
- Newspaper Excerpt
- R. D. Garrett has been appointed receiver for the First National Bank of Friendly, W. Va., upon its suspension by the comptroller of the currency.
- Source
- newspapers
4.
July 27, 1908
Suspension
- Cause
- Government Action
- Cause Details
- Comptroller of the Currency notified of suspension and receiver appointed; bank closed by regulatory/official action (receiver assigned).
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The comptroller of the currency was advised today of the suspension of the First National Bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000. R. D. Garrett has been appointed receiver.
- Source
- newspapers
5.
January 14, 1909
Other
- Newspaper Excerpt
- Elbert L. Morgan, charged with wrecking the Friendly, W. Va., First National bank, was sentenced to five years in prison... The bank of which he was the cashier is now in the hands of a receiver.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (16)
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Bank Was Suspended. Washington, July 27.-The comptroller of the currency was advised to-day of the suspension of the First National bank of Friendly, West Vs with a capital of $25.000. R. D. Garrett has been appointed receiver.
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RECEIVER FOR WEST VIRGINIA BANK. Washington. July 27.-The Controller of the Currency was advised to-day of the suspension of the First National Bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000. R. D. Garrett has been appointed
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WEST VIRGINIA BANK SUSPENDS, Washington, July 27.-The comptroller of the currency was advised today of the suspension of the First National bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000. R. D. Garrett has been appointed receiver.
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National Bank Suspends WASHINGTON, July 27.-The comp- troller of the currency was advised today of the suspension of the First National bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000.
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BANK SUSPENDED. Washington, July 27.-The First National Bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000, suspended today. R. S. Garrett is receiver.
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West Virginia Bank Suspends. WASHINGTON July 27.-The comptroller of the currency was advised today of the suspension of the First National bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $26,000. R. D. Garrett was appointed receiver.
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News of the Day. The Interstate Commerce Commission will at once begin an investigation of the freight-rete situation. Captain Baldwin will receive $6,750 from the government if his tests at Fort Myer are satisfactory. Hydrophobia caused the death of James Phillips, of New York, months after he was bitten. "Count" Von Helden was sentenced at New York yesterday to hard labor at Sing Sing for bigamy. Philip Uhler, 68 years old, 902 Compton street, Baltimore, ended his life by firing a bullet it his head yesterday. The First Nst onal Bank of Friendly, W. Va., has suspended, and R. D. Garrett has been appointed receiver. Recruiting officers at Washington have been ordered not to enlist former nation. al guardsmen unless they can show that they have been honorably discharged. The grand jury of Kings county, N. Y., is expected to bring in a presentment characterizing the racetracks as disorderly resorts. At the seventeenth Universal Peace Confe nce which assembled in Lond yesterday, sixteen countries are represented. "Nan" Patterson, the former chorus girl, acquitted of a cab murder, was made to leave Pittsburg yesterday because she had lured a married man there. The president has called Secretary Wright to Oyster Bay to take up the case of the eight West Point havers which it is thought had been settled. New York republican party leaders refuse to discuss Governor Hughes' declaration that he will run again, and it is said be may decide to become an independent candidate. While arguing with Stephen Pierce because the latter, it was alleged, was keeping a COW in a yard in violation of the town ordinance, Charles Haywood, one of the town commissioners, dropped dead of heart disease at Rehoboth, Del. According to a decision by the interstate commerce commission shippers may combine small quantities of freight of various owneship, either by arrangement among themselves or through the medium of a forwarding agency, and ship the combined lot at the relatively lower rates applicable to large shipments. George W. Abrell, a blacksmith, and well-known resident of Slanesville, Hampshire county, W. Va., has been arrested by Sheriff Johnson, of that county, charged with murdering J hn B. Chapman, the wealthy Winchester lumberman and merchant, and was taken to the county jail at Romney to be held for the next term of court. Baltimore and the country for 25 miles around it were deluged with such a torrent of rain yesterday morning between 6:45 and 8 o'clock that the tracks on some of the railroads were washed out, traffic was stopped, vegetation in the country was beaten down to the ground and the water in some of the streams emplying into the Patapsco rose 88 high as ten feet. William J. Bryan arrived in Omaha At from Obicago yesterday evening. the station he WAS met by a committee representing the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, a secret order of Omaha business men, who gave him a banquet and later initiated him as a member. Organizations of business men received him and escorted him to an improvised stand where he made an address and held A public reception. He attacked the republican platform and leaders and declared that his platform advocated needed reforms. For days in the city of Washington an agent of the Burean of Immigation, acting under instructions from the Department of Commerce and Labor, has been investigating affairs in the section below the avenue. Three women, all aliens, who came under the ban of the federal law, living between] Eleventh and Fourteenth streets, were arrested by Inspector George Baldwin, of the Bureau of Immigration. What the charge against the women will be when brought into court this morning is unknown, but it is said they are illegally in this country and that under a clause of the law they will be deported to their native land.
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NATIONAL BANK BROKE. Washington, July 27.-The comptroller of the currency was advised today of the suspension of the First National bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000.
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Telegraph Brevities CHOLERA KILLS MANY-St. Petersburg, July 27.-Eight additional deaths from cholera have been reported from Tsaritsyn and seven from Astrakhan. HALL IS DESTROYED-Spokane, Wash., July 27.-The Auditorium at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, owned by several secret societies of the city, was destroyed by fire early this morning. KILLED BY TRAIN-Sacramento July 27.John Toplin, a blacksmith, while trying to steal a ride on a train near Galt yesterday, lost his hold and was ground to death under the wheels. MILLIONAIRE DROPS DEADShelbyville, III., July 27.-T. F. Dove, a millionaire attorney and democratic politician of southern Illinois, dropped dead at his home here today, aged 62 years. NATIONAL BANK SUSPENDSWashington, July 27.-The comptroller of the currency was advised today of the suspension of the First national bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000. ATTORNEY SHOOTS HIMSELF-Lead, S. D. July 27.-A general breakdown in health led Thomas L. Redton, former city attorney, to blow out his brains today. He was 60 years old and an active war veteran. TROOPS GO TO CHEYENNE- St. Paul, Minn., July 27.-Tomorrow troops E. F and H, Fourth cavalry, will leave Fort Snelling by rail for Dates creek. Wyo., whence they will make a maneuvering camp near Cheyenne. PEACE CONFERENCE ASSEMBLESLondon, July 27.-The seventeenth universal peace conference, organized by the Society of Friends. assembled at Canton hall here today. Over 100 societies in 16 different countries are in attendance. GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS OPENS-Geneva, Switzerland, July 27.-The International Geographical congress was opened here today by Dr. F. Brennes, president of the Swiss republic. Among the speakers was Professor Davis of Harvard university. TO FIGHT RUM IN ENGLANDSpringfeld, 0., July 27.-Rev. E. O. Dinwiddle of this city, legislative superintendent of the national antisaloon league, has accepted an invitation to conduct a parlimentary campaign in England for local option after the American plan. NAVAL OFFICER UNDER THE KNIFE-Philadelphia, July 27.-Commander Charles H. Harlow, U. S. N., commandant of the Guantanamo naval station, who arrived here yesterday on board the cruiser Tacoma, underwent an operation today for appendicitis. The operation was pronounced successful. DIES BY GAS MYSTERIOUSLY-Chicago, July 27. Robert E. Bradley, secretary of the transcontinental freight bureau, was found dead in his gas filled bedroom by his wife today. Bradley was ill, but whether his death was accidental or self-inficted is not known. ENJOIN COUNTY INVESTIGATION-Cincinnati, July 27.-The legislative investigation of the public offices and officials of Hamilton county was stopped today by a decision handed down by the circuit court. Three judges joined in the decision that the committee is illegal. PIONEER DROPS DEAD-Tacoma, July 27. J. G. Weller, aged 74, a pioneer of Stellacoom, locating there in 1869, dropped dead today just outside of the grounds of the Fannie Paddock hospital, where he had been nearly a month under treatment for heart disease and dropsy. BODY OF GIRL UND-Portland, Ore., July 27.-The body of Miss Theta Stephens, the young woman who was drowned while boating yesterday. was recovered today. Miss Stephens was a student of Whitman college, Walla Walla, and was spending her vacation with her parents in this city. MANUFACTURER INSOLVENT - Cologne, July 27.-F. W. Raub, the largest cutlery manufacturer of Solingen, is insolvent. it was announced today. as the result of the failure of the Solingen bank of Solingen, whose formal bankruptcy was declared July 20. Rauh's assets are said to exceed his liabilities by $125,000. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED-Biggs, Cal., July -Samuel H. Cherry, a hay presser, formerly of Lewiston, Utah, was accidentally drowned yesterday while bathing in Butte creek. The body was recovered. He was 29 years of age and leaves a family residing in Gridley. MOB ATTACKS STRIKE BREAKERS-Elgin, III., July 27.- streetcar manned by 18 nonunion men, the first car run since Saturday. was attacked by a mob of strike sympathizers here today. Every window in the car was broken and several of the crew were hit by missiles. The car was returned to the barn under police guard.
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NEWS SUMMARY Forest fires in the vicinity of Mont., have caused damage of $15,000. The First National bank of Friend W. Va., with a capital of $25,000 ly. has closed its doors. A young farmer near Paris shot parents. He was refused to buy drink, killed funds his hence kill a fort the trageds. Dynamite was used to whale which entered trap at foot salmon finback Smallpox Bellingham bay, Juan island, says a Wash., dispatch. general breakdown in health le A L, Redlon, former city Lead, S. D., to Thomas of blow old brains. ney He was 60 years Civil war veteran. Acting under orders of the board of sixty policemen have health; for days killing every dog that busy running at large without zle found in New York City. years ago Robert Perry Four from Southington, His Conn., peared in his possession. wife is w skeleto $5,000 found last week. His was suspicion of the murder. der Walsh of of Bozeman, were Robert Brock Payette, Mont, Kan, Plato on a ranch near Bozeman while killed a derrick. which came wire. into ranch hands. moving contact with a live power Both were ants crawling into the eyes, little Red nose and mouth of the ears, three-year-old daughter of Anadarka, Tonie, Indians, living near which Okla., later. Kiowa inflicting wounds from child died the H. Budd, former Governor d James and long prominent California politics, died at 30, his after resiDemocratic Stockton on July uraemia dence illness in of a fortnight, old. of an was 58 years He Chineses steamer trade, Ying King four The in the passenger Three hunengaged during a typhoon. have dered Chinese are known to those been OR drowned. dred Only twelve of were rescued. board Cholera that has made is its most appear viruance in According Russia this to year investigations lent. distinguished medical made by the a sanitary conditions in the thority, towns are horrible. Volga is bad news from in the the French Naua There where a factory by the Congo, has been destroyed twenty district In the Sangha district in tax col. tives. who were engaged soldiers, have been murdered. lecting, "Tad" Smith, a criminal negro boy assault 18 years old, of Clinton, Miss charged Viola Delancey with after being identified Hunt Texas, tied to county, woman, was to death. by the young a mob and burned of the stake by S. Bradley, secretary bureau, was found wife transcontinental Robert dead in his freight gas-filled Mr. Bradley bedroom in Chicago by whether his not ill, but self-inflicted is cidental was or his reports received death was & known. from har two A summary hundred of correspondents in the Canadian on west will vest conditions centsof the wheat showed August have passed 15 90 to per the 20. blossom The grain stage is filling from of aeronaut well. William Iliver, a young while makMich., was killed Just as the par Mason, a parachute drop. of one side ing filled the strings dropped achute and the aeronaut the parachute snapped feet, to his death, after him. 2000 a useless rag, commis Interstate to the et. sion waiting trailing The has issued a statement commerce for filing the fect complaints that without it its will own institute motion whether an for inves adtigation of on determining are justified in freight farmer, vances purpose Goodwin, rates a who Walter county court last term of the seven men who at the the names of "night-rider with gave himself composed Central a Furnace, seriously Ky. while wounded squadron was shot from at ambush returning and home from Manutown. A reorganization of was the effected Pope last company will facturing week. The preferred new capitalization stock and new $4,000.- com- be $2,500,000 of common stock. the The factories at 000 will purchase at Westfield, Hartford, pany Conn., and of Mass. The government and labor department has in begun regard the to resources work commerce of gathering data of the country, as the will timber soon have full timber information there is is and much standing and where it to in how the United States, Berlin located. Siegmund Friedberg, after alleged the End defahwho fled $500,000. of Commissioner invited banker, Police cations aggregating Muller up Berlin, who, has the to decided, in an home "open and give with come after negotiations police to mining do so. town of Stafford, Ra At the
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Senor Creel, the Mexican ambassador, has presented to the state department a strong appeal from the Mexican government to that of the United States for the latter's co-operation in the work of suppressing bands of revolutionists which for a number of weeks have been making raids on Mexican territory, from the American side of the line. It is probable that additional American troops will be stationed along the borden, and in the meanwhile the governors of Texas and Arizona are being urged to redouble their exertions to prevent a recurrence of such raids. The comptroller of the currency was advised of the suspension of the First National bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000. R. D. Garrett has been appointed receiver. Assistant Secretary of State Bacon has left Washington for San Juan, P. R., to make an investigation into the holding of certain property by the United States which has been in dispute between the government and the Catholic church. The sultan of Turkey, through the Turkish consul-general at New York, Mundji Dey, has proclaimed general amnesty to all political fugitives, regardless of race, in this country. This relates to about 200,000 Armenians and others in the United States. From the summer headquarters of the Italian embassy in Massachusetts, Baron Mayor des Planches, in a note to the state department regarding the recent occurrences at Natalbany, La., where there has been a clash in which Italians were involved, expresses the hope that everything will be done to insure the due course of law and order. The ambassador's note has been referred to the solicitor's office of the state department for appropriate action. The United States cable ship Burnside, sailed from Seattle for Manila to repair the government cables, work to commence with the Cordova loop of the Valdez Seward cable.
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NEWS SUMMARY Forest fires in the vicinity of Taft. Mont., have caused damage of at least $15,000. The First National bank of Friendly, W. Va., with a capital of $25,000, has closed its doors. A young farmer near Paris shot and killed his parents. He was refused funds to buy drink, hence the tragedy. Dynamite was used to kill a fortyfoot finback whale which entered a salmon trap at Smallpox bay, San Juan island, says a Bellingham, Wash., dispatch. A general breakdown in health led Thomas L, Redlon, former city attorney of Lead, S. D., to blow out his brains. He was 60 years old and a Civil war veteran. Acting under orders of the board of health, sixty policemen have been busy for days killing every dog that 15 found running at large without a muzzle in New York City. Four years ago Robert Perry disappeared from Southington, Conn., with $5,000 in his possession. His skeleton was found last week. His wife is under suspicion of the murder. Robert Walsh of Payette, Kan., and Plato Brock of Bozeman, Mont., were killed on a ranch near Bozeman while moving a derrick, which came into contact with a live power wire. Both were ranch hands. Red ants crawling into the eyes, ears, nose and mouth of the little three-year-old daughter of Tonie, a Kiowa Indians, living near Anadarka, Okla., inflicting wounds from which the child died later. James H. Budd, former Governor of California and long prominent in Democratic politics, died at his residence in Stockton on July 30, after an illness of a fortnight, of uraemia. He was 58 years old. The Chineses steamer Ying King, engaged in the passenger trade, foundered during a typhoon. Three hundred Chinese are known to have been drowned. Only twelve of those on board were rescued. Cholera that has made its appearance in Russia this year is most virulent. According to investigations made by a distinguished medical authority, the sanitary conditions in the Volga towns are horrible. There is bad news from the French Congo, where a factory in the Naua district has been destroyed by the natives. In the Sangha district twenty soldiers. who were engaged in tax collecting, have been murdered. "Tad" Smith, a negro boy 18 years old, charged with criminal assault on Miss Viola Delancey of Clinton, Hunt county, Texas, after being identified by the young woman, was tied to a stake by a mob and burned to death. Robert S. Bradley, secretary of the transcontinental freight bureau, was found dead in his gas-filled bedroom in Chicago by his wife. Mr. Bradley was ill, but whether his death was accidental or self-inflicted is not known. A summary of reports received from two hundred correspondents on harvest conditions in the Canadian west showed 90 per cent of the wheat will have passed the blossom stage from August 15 to 20. The grain is filling well. William Iliver, a young aeronaut of Mason, Mich., was killed while making a parachute drop. Just as the parachute filled the strings of one side snapped and the aeronaut dropped 2000 feet, to his death, the parachute trailing a useless rag, after him. The interstate commerce commission has issued a statement to the effect that without waiting for filing of complaints it will institute an investigation on its own motion for the purpose of determining whether advances in freight rates are justified. Walter Goodwin, a farmer, who at the last term of the county court gave the names of seven men who with himself composed a "night-rider" squadron at Central Furnace, Ky., was shot from ambush and seriously wounded while returning home from town.
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Five Years In Prison. Parkersburg, W. Va., January 14.-Elbert L. Morgan, charged with wrecking the Friendly, W. Va., First National bank, was sentenced to five years in prison here this afternoon. The indictment against Morgan charged him with misappropriating $5000. The bank of which he was the cashier is now in the hands of a receiver.
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NEWS NOTES. Charles H. Cox, cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Cynthiana, is dead. J. Rene Harris was elected cashier of the Bank of Finchville over 24 applicants. John D. Rockefeller and party, numbering 14, arrived at Augusta, Ga., for a stay of several weeks. A new bank with a capital stock of $20,000 has been organized at Little Rock. This now gives Bourbon county 11 banks. William H. Graves, aged 82, a prominent citizen of Versailles, is dead of heart disease. He was a soldier in the Mexican War. Banker Anderson, who was tried on the charge of false swearing, was given three years in the penitentiary at his trial at Owensboro, Porter Polson, 20 years old, was sentenced to life imprisonmeat for the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Julia Brown, at Albany, Clinton county. Harry Keener, accused by Miss Lorena Tawser of killing a man last July on his farm in North Cedorus township, near York, Pa., admitted the crime. Two hundred and forty men were entombed by an explosion in a coal mine in Hungary. Forty-five bodies have been recovered and 16 survivors rescued. Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, who was in command of the Russian fleet which was badly defeated by the Japanese under Togo, died of neuralgia of the heart at St. Petersburg. Examination of the brain of Rev. John H. Carmichael, who killed Gideon Browning in the Rattle Run church and then committed suicide, showed that he had been a sufferer from acute mania. Isaac E. Lambert, a prominent attorney and politician of Kansas, lost his life in the burning of the Copeland Hotel at Topeka. Fourteen persons were injured and many of the guests compelled to jump from windows. After killing Patroiman Smith and wounding a girl in a public house at Omaha, Neb., Albert Clark, of Denver, was himself shot while trying to escape from the police. Before he was captured, however, he wounded Patrolman Deveresse. William A. Anderson, a conductor on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad branch line from Catlettsburg to Pikeville, was robbed and murdered. After Anderson was dead the murderers carried his body out on to a high trestle and bound it to the rails, where it was struck by a train and horribly mangled. Thornton J. Hains was acquitted of the charge of murder in the first degree which grew out of the killing of William E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht Club August 15, 1908. Hains stood guard over his brother, Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., while the latter shot down Annis, but did not actually participate in the shooting. His brother, Capt. Hains, has not yet been put on trial. Elbert L. Morgan, charged with wrecking the Friendly, W. Va, First National Bank, was sentenced to a five-year term in the State penitentiary by Judge A. G. Dayton in the United States Court at Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment against Morgan charged him with misappropriating $5,000. The bank of which he was the cashier is now in the hands of a receiver.
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Elbert L. Morgan charged with wrecking the Friendley, W. Va., First to National Bank, was sentenced five years in the State penitentiary by Judge A. G. Dayton in the UnitLed States Court at Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment against Morgan charged him with misappropriating $5,000. The bank of which he was the cashier is now in the hands of a receiver.