Hartville Banking Company

Episode Information

Episode UID: 56098271320
Episode Type: Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Bank ID: 5609827 routing
Routing Number: 56-0982
Start Date: December 1, 1909
Location: Hartville, Ohio (40.964, -81.331)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest: 8b1716ff5e9e7e78

Response Measures

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Description

Article uses 'assignment' indicating the bank closed and a receiver was appointed.

Events (3)

1. December 1, 1909 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: The doors of the Hartville Banking Company ... which made an assignment, were closed today, following a run ... F. W. Christy ... held fifty shares ... announced several days ago that he had sold it to his cousin, E. O. Christy.
Source: newspapers

2. December 1, 1909 Run

Cause: Local Banks
Cause Details: Run began after a report the Hartville bank had connections with the recently defunct Collinwood bank; panic from another bank's failure
Newspaper Excerpt: The doors of the Hartville Banking Company ... were closed today, following a run which originated in a report that the bank had some connection with the recently defunct Collinwood bank
Source: newspapers

3. December 1, 1909 Suspension

Cause: Local Banks
Cause Details: Bank made an assignment (closed) after the run triggered by reports linking it to the defunct Collinwood bank
Newspaper Excerpt: The doors of the Hartville Banking Company ... which made an assignment, were closed today
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. December 1, 1909 Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser Newark, NJ

Article from Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser, December 1, 1909

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Article Text

RUN ON CLEVELAND BANK FORCES ASSIGNMENT. CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 1.-The doors of the Hartville Banking Company, of Hartville, near Canton, Ohio, which made an assignment, were closed today, following a run which originated in a report that the bank had some connection with the recently defunct Collinwood bank, near Cleveland. F. W. Christy, who promoted the Collinwood institution, held fifty shares of the Hartville bank's stock, but announced several days ago that he had sold it to his cousin, E. O. Christy. W. G. Smith, of Cleveland, is president of the Hartville Banking Company.