C. A. Mather & Company

Episode Information

Episode UID: 5529038891095
Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: trust
Bank ID: 552903889 hash
Start Date: March 28, 1891
Location: Berlin, Wisconsin (43.968, -88.943)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest: f6315be0c19db3c5

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Description

Article states the firm is defunct and the proprietor arrested for receiving deposits while insolvent; no explicit reopening reported.

Events (1)

1. March 28, 1891 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: BERLIN, Wis., March 28.-C. A. Mather, of the defunct banking firm of C. A., Mather & Co., has been arrested, charged with receiving deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. March 24, 1891 Deseret Evening News Salt Lake City, UT

Article from Deseret Evening News, March 24, 1891

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Article Text

A List of Failures. LOUISVILLE, March 28.-The grand jury will investigate the failure of Schwartz & Co., bankers, and It is said criminal prosecution will follow. The assets now turn out to be nothing. TOLEDO, O., March 23.-The sheriff today attached the old Chamber of Commerce building, formerly occupied by the Produce Exchange, on a petition for judgment on a note of $100,000 and foreclosure of the mortgage securing the note, which was filed by the Pennsylvania Mutual Insurance Company against John B. Carson and the administrators and heirs of J. A. Gamble, deceased. George Beckwith was appointed receiver. YORK, Pa., March 23. - Michael Schall and James H. Donner, trading as Schall & Donner, bankers, assigned. The liabilities and assets cannot be ascertained; but it is a complete failure, the liabilities far exceeding the assets. NEW YORK, March 23.-Schwab Bros., manufacturers of cloaks and jerseys, Green Street, confessed judgments aggregating $57,031. Their attorneys place the liabilities at $250,000, with assets sufficient to cover, if time is allowed. BERLIN, Wis., March 28.-C. A. Mather, of the defunct banking firm of C. A., Mather & Co., has been arrested, charged with receiving deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent. He was placed under bonds of $1000 until March S1st.