Bank of Leesville (Leesville, LA)

Episode Information

Episode UID
5633734091271
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Bank ID
563373409 hash
Start Date
November 27, 1905
Location
Leesville, Louisiana (31.144, -93.261)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
761594b793c614ff

Response Measures

None

Description

Articles state the bank 'will not open its doors' and was carried down by quarantine-related failures; no explicit receiver named for the bank in these pieces.

Events (1)
1. November 27, 1905 Suspension
Cause
Local Shock
Cause Details
Yellow fever quarantine cut city off for three months causing major lumber firms to fail owing large sums to the bank.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Bank of Leesville, La., ... will not open its doors to day because its business has been ruined by the three months' quarantine which cut the little city off from the outside world.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)
1. November 27, 1905 Evening Times-Republican Marshalltown, IA
Article from Evening Times-Republican, November 27, 1905

Click image to open full size in new tab

Article Text

YELLOW FEVER WRECKS BANK. Institution at Leesville, La., Fails Because of Quarantine. New Orleans, Nov. 27.-The Bank of Leesville, La., long one of the most prosperous institutions in certral Louisiana, will not open its doors to day because its business has been ruined by the three months' quarantine which cut the little city off from the outside world. Three big lumber companies. with large assets, were forced into the hands of receivers because they were unable to ship their products, and as they owed the bank large sums that institution was carried down.

2. November 28, 1905 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic Pine Bluff, AR
Article from Pine Bluff Daily Graphic, November 28, 1905

Click image to open full size in new tab

Article Text

VELLOW FEVER WRECKS BANK Institution at Leesville, La., Fails Be. cause of Quarantine. New Orleans, Nov- 28.-The Bank of Leesville, La., long one of the most prosperous institutions in central Louisiana, will not open its doors tomorrow because its business was ruined by the three months' quarantine which cut the little city off from the outside world. Three big lumber companies, with large assets, were forced into the hands of the receivers, because they were unable to ship their products, and as they owed the bank large sums of money that institution was carried down.