First National Bank - Big Timber, MT

Episode Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Reopening
Start Date: June 1, 1893*
Location: Big Timber, Montana (45.835, -109.955)
Bank Type: national
Charter Number: 4590

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City ID: 300802032

Model: gpt-5-mini
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Events (4)

1. June 29, 1891 Chartered

Source: historical_nic

2. June 1, 1893* Suspension

Cause: Macro News
Cause Details: Closed during the nationwide panic of 1893 ('went down in the panic last summer').
Newspaper Excerpt: This was one of the Montana banks that went down in the panic last summer
Source: newspapers

3. July 27, 1893 Voluntary Liquidation

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4. December 25, 1893 Reopening

Newspaper Excerpt: The First National bank of Big Timher, Mont., resumed business on Monday.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. December 29, 1893 The Weekly Tribune Great Falls, MT

Article from The Weekly Tribune, December 29, 1893

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Article Text

The First National bank of Big Timher, Mont., resumed business on Monday. This was one of the Montana banks that went down in the panic last summer, and its resuming shows that business confidence is fast being 1estored throughout!Montana.

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Article Text

Bank runs are almost always and everywhere a deterioration of bank fundamentals.

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