United States National Bank

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 3612
Charter Number: 3612
Start Date: January 28, 1891
Location: Atchison, Kansas (39.563, -95.122)

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Short Digest: d4cefaa0

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Description

Contemporary newspaper articles (Jan 28–29, 1891) report the United States National Bank of Atchison closed its doors and will go into voluntary liquidation. No run or depositor panic is described; the action is voluntary liquidation/suspension leading to permanent closure.

Events (3)

1. December 30, 1886 Chartered

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2. January 28, 1891 Suspension

Cause: Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details: Directors closed the bank and placed it in voluntary liquidation; described as a contemplated step by directors.
Newspaper Excerpt: The United States National Bank, of this city, closed its doors this morning, and will go into voluntary liquidation.
Source: newspapers

3. March 24, 1891 Voluntary Liquidation

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Newspaper Articles (4)

1. January 29, 1891 San Antonio Daily Light San Antonio, TX

Article from San Antonio Daily Light, January 29, 1891

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LATE TELEGRAMS BOILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE, SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES. The E. C. A. F. of L. will raise $50,000 for the miner's strike next May. House considers'military appropriation bill in committee of the whole. Smallpox quarantine raised at Houston and through travel to New Orleans is unimpeded. Private Frank Clark, 18th U.S. infantry is discharged without character. Kansas elects her first senator who is not a republican, and owes no allegiance to the party. The Alliance in convention at Omaha pledges itself not to affiliate with the old parties. Jury returns a verdict of not guilty in Mrs. Gray's case at Galveston after 30 minutes consultation. United States National bank of Atchison will close its doors, and go into voluntary liquidation. Cattle feeding in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska has fallen off fifty per cent from last year's operations. Two sporting women of Fort Worth take the morphine route into the unknown. Government of Germany may rescind the law against American pork importations. Farmers' alliance convention at Omaha tables the amendment admitting laboring men to membership. House of Nebraska legislature tables a resolution asking the governor to deliver his inaugural. The Mexican who stabbed a woman at Corpus Christi Saturday night was found 25 miles out and run in. A Corsicanna man charged with selling unwholesome pork eats some himself to show that it is all right. The testimony before the silver pool committee shows symptons of becoming interesting. The house committee on coinage will try and secure a vote on coinage in the committee on Wednesday. The Boston delegation is being heard in opposition to the free coinage bill. Senate passes house bill ratifying agreement between Sac and Fox indians. The Boston crowd are said to have waked up the wrong passenger when they tried to convince Bland that he did not know what the West wanted. The compromise arranged for at Helena, Mont. between the two parties in the legislature fails to be ratified and falls through. John Grater of Vincennes, Ind. creates a sensation at Fort Worth by running amuck through the streets with a hatchet. Quarantine officers at Luling seize an unwholesome looking tramp who leaped off a train and rushed him into the pest house. Experts, in the Rev. Mitchell forgery case at Fort Worth, testify that he is mentally unbalanced and morally irresponsible. Committee on territories warns the Oklahoma boomers that all who enter the territory illegally will forfeit their homestead rights. The labor organizations represented in the executive council of American Federation of labor repudiate Powderley's third party circular. The compact among the western roads against issuing free passes is dissolved at Chicago. There were 46 roads in the agreement. Preliminary meeting of the western congress is to be held in Galveston February 5th. A large attendance is booked. The Parnellites ask McCarthy to withdraw, but he refuses, as he was elected by a majority that still supports him. One hundred aud ten bodies have been recovered from the Frecke mine and a score more remain not yet taken out. Missouri, Kansas and Texas runs'a stock freight from Denison to Parsons, Kan., 216 miles, in ten hours and five minutes. Inter-state Commerce committe orders Pennsylvania railway and other roads to cease all discrimination by March 10. Irate mothers of two indiscreet school girls at Kansas City, soundly horsewhip the young men who kept them out all night. Johnson, deputy U.S. Marshall at Dallas under Cabell, and on trial as a conspirator in the Marlow brothers case, is granted $10,000 bail. Dallas defeats the amendment to her charter extending city limits. Action is final. An increase of $1,000,000 in the bonded debt is asked for. Connecticut House of Representatives says the whole state vote was fraudulently counted and offers to

2. January 29, 1891 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN

Article from The Indianapolis Journal, January 29, 1891

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Business Embarrassments. ATCHISON, Kan., Jan. 28.-John C. Tomlinson was appointed receiver to-day forthe People's Savings Bank. of this city, on the petition of one of the directors. The bank is an auxiliary of the United States National, which liquidated to-day. The liabilities are about $100,000. Depositors will be paid in full. ATCHISON, Jan. 28.-The United States National Bank, of this city, closed its doors this morning, and will go into voluntary liquidation. It is a step that the directors have been contemplatingforseveralmonths. The bank was organized in January, 1887, with a capital stock of $250,000. AURORA, III.. Jan. 28.-The Monitor manufacturing works in this city are in the hands of the sherift. It is claimed to have a paid up capital of $100,000. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-A Paris kid glove firm has secured a verdict against Henry Hilton and Wm. Libbey, successors to a.t. Stewart, for $277,775. Ottawa, Ill., Jan. 28.-James H. Harney. a notion-dealer. has made a voluntary assignment. The assets are $20,000; liabilities, $15,000.

3. December 31, 1891 Barton County Democrat Great Bend, KS

Article from Barton County Democrat, December 31, 1891

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KANSAS STATE NEWS. A. H. Martin, formerly business manager of, the Champion, and a brother of the late Gov. Martin, died at Atchison the other day. The Friends College association of Kansas, which proposes to build a college in the state, was incorporated the other day. The officers are: President, E. Stanley, Lawrence; secretary, John Kirby, Tonganoxie; treasurer, John D. Mills, Lawrence. In accordance with the decision of the last convention of the Kansas state federation of labor the next meeting of the federation will be held at Hutchinson Monday, January 4, 1892. All railroads will give a holiday rate-one fare for the round trip. At the Kansas City, Kan., opera house the other night during a performance a pistol dropped from the pocket of Deputy Sheriff Bowling, which was discharged. the ball striking Lizzie Burdette, a colored woman, in the hip, which resulted in her death two days later. After a week of excruciating pain and suffering J. N. Deering, a well known resident of Bourbon county, died the other day. Mr. Deering deliberately poisoned himself by taking a dose of laudanum and followed it up with a dose of morphine. No cause for the act could be assigned. He left a wife and ten children. Mrs. Frank Cigrand, of Argentine, went out a few days before Christmas to do some holiday shopping, leaving several children in the house. During her absence the children set fire to the house by some means and her fouryear-old child was burned to death. Charlie Boeker, an eight-year-old boy, was also badly burned. The Second Regiment, Kansas National Guard Columbia association, which proposes to accumulate funds for use and maintenance to attend the Columbian exposition at Chicago, has been incorporated. The capital stock is placed at $12,500 and the incorporators are the officers of the various companies of the regiment. The large frame dwelling house belonging to the estate of the late Hon. D. G. Campbell, of Merriam. was burned to the ground the other night with most of its contents. Ten barrels of fine cider were stored in the basement of a portion of the house. The loss will reach several thousand dollars with but $1,000 insurance. While recently clearing some timber on the farm of James Dougan, in the southern part of Atchison county, James Saunders found a petrified human body, which the successive rains had evidently unearthed. The petrifaction is almost perfect in form, one hand alone being missing. Old settlers say it is the body of "Willow Twig," a notorious Kickapoo Indian, who made his home with a Frenchman named Pensinau, and who was minus a hand. The following Kansas banks went into voluntary liquidation during the past year: First national of Hill City, First national of Frankfort, West Side national of Wichita, Anthony national of Anthony. National bank of El Do. rado, Citizens' national of Medicine Lodge, United States national of Atchison, First national of Ashland and First national of Burr Oak. Four Kansas banks obtained an extension of their corporate existence during the year. At Augusta the other day W. A. Rhoades shot his divorced wife and then sent a bullet through his brain, killing him instantly. Mrs. Rhoades received a bullet in the neck, and may recover. Last summer Rhodes secured a divorce in Nevada. His wife brought suit against his mother in the district court for alienating his affection and had just received a verdict of $1,000 damages On the morning of the shooting Rhoades asked his divorced wife to remarry him and the tragedy followed her refusal The Kansas Poultry association, at its late session in Topeka, elected the following officers: President, S. P. Robinson; vice-presidents, John G Hewitt, J. W. Werner and G. C Wilkins; secretary, J. P. Lucas, of To peka; assistant secretary, Mrs. J. P Lucas, of Topeka; treasurer, C. H Rhodes, of North Topeka. It was de cided that the association be incor porated under the state laws of Kan sas, and that the next annual show be held in Topeka the same week as the Fine Stock association, in January 1893. The following Kansas veterans were made happy the day before Christmas by having their pensions granted Richard A. Hoffman, Thomas Cotter Michael Zoller, Eugene M. Eldred, Al bert Coles, Nobles H. Heaton, John Trezise, Daniel G. Hahn, James H Trimble, Jacob H. Brown, Jacob R

4. January 1, 1892 The Kinsley Graphic Kinsley, KS

Article from The Kinsley Graphic, January 1, 1892

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KANSAS STATE NEWS. A. H. Martin, formerly business manager of the Champion, and & brother of the late Gov. Martin, died at Atchison the other day. The Friends College association of Kansas, which proposes to build a college in the state, was incorporated the other day. The officers are: President, E. Stanley, Lawrence; secretary, John Kirby, Tonganoxie; treasurer, John D. Mills, Lawrence. In accordance with the decision of the last convention of the Kansas state federation of labor the next meeting of the federation will be held at Hutchinson Monday, January 4, 1892. All railroads will give a holiday rate-one fare for the round trip. At the Kansas City, Kan., opera house the other night during a performance a pistol dropped from the pocket of Deputy Sheriff Bowling, which was discharged, the ball striking Lizzie Burdette, a colored woman, in the hip, which resulted in her death two days later. After a week of exeruciating pain and suffering J. N. Deering, a well known resident of Bourbon county, died the other day. Mr. Deering deliberately poisoned himself by taking a dose of laudanum and followed it up with & dose of morphine. No cause for the act could be assigned. He left a wife and ten children. Mrs. Frank Cigrand, of Argentine, went out a few days before Christmas to do some holiday shopping, leaving several children in the house. During her absence the children set fire to the house by some means and her fouryear-old child was burned to death. Charlie Boeker, an eight-year-old boy, was also badly burned. The Second Regiment, Kansas Na. tional Guard Columbia association, which proposes to accumulate funds for use and maintenance to attend the Columbian exposition at Chicago, has been incorporated. The capital stock is placed at $12,500 and the incorporators are the officers of the various companies of the regiment. The large frame dwelling house belonging to the estate of the late Hon. D. G. Campbell, of Merriam. was burned to the ground the other night with most of its contents Ten barrels of fine cider were stored in the basement of a portion of the house. The loss will reach several thousand dollars with but $1,000 insurance. While recently clearing some timber on the farm of James Dougan, in the southern part of Atchison county, James Saunders found a petrified human body, which the successive rains had evidently unearthed. The petrifaction is almost perfect in form, one hand alone being missing. Old settlers say it is the body of "Willow Twig," a notorious Kickapoo Indian, who made his home with a Frenchman named Pensinau, and who was minus a hand. The following Kansas banks went into voluntary liquidation during the past year: First national of Hill City, First national of Frankfort, West Side national of Wichita, Anthony national of Anthony, National bank of El Dorado, Citizens' national of Medicine Lodge, United States national of Atchison, First national of Ashland and First national of Burr Oak. Four Kansas banks obtained an extension of their corporate existence during the year. At Augusta the other day W. A. Rhoades shot his divorced wife and then sent a bullet through his brain, killing him instantly. Mrs. Rhoades recelved a bullet in the neck, and may recover. Last summer Rhodes secured a divorce in Nevada. His wife broughtsuit against his mother in the district court for alienating his affection and had just received a ve diet of $1,000 damages. On the morning of the shooting Rhoades asked hisdivorced wife to remarry him and the tragedy followed her refusal. The Kansas Poultry association, at its late session in Topeka, elected the following officers: President, S. P. Robinson; vice-presidents, John G. Hewitt, J. W. Werner and G. C. Wilkins; secretary, J. P. Lucas, of To. peka; assistant secretary, Mrs. J. P. Lucas, of Topeka; treasurer, C. H. Rhodes, of North Topeka It was decided that the association be incorporated under the state laws of Kansas, and that the next annual show be held, in Topeka the same week as the 1893. Fine Stock association, in January, The following Kansas veterans were made happy the day before Christmas by having their pensions granted: Richard A. Hoffman, Thomas Cotter, Michael Zoller, Engene M. Eldred, Al bert Coles, Nobles H. Heaton, John Trezise, Daniel G. Hahn, James H. Trimble, Jacob H. Brown, Jacob R. Nonemaker, Warren Chapman, Alexander M. Staley, William W. Savage, George Evinger, John J. Townsend, August Sehultz, Willis Cinn, Henry A. Glenn, Craven S. Turner, Philip R. Osborn, Eben S. Welch, John May, David Smith, Amenzo Brown, A. Calvert, William A. Atha, Lucinda Washburn Jul a A. Cobb, Robert S. Strother, Bertrand S. Green, Joseph A. Shink, Henry W. Rayburn, John Wahl, John Bird, Nathaniel Y. Buck, Milton C. Snorf, Richard Russell, Allen Bennett, John W. Reed, Davil Lathrop, Henry Jones, Thomas B. Ross, Alfred W. Kivett, John McLees, Joseph Lines, Edward A. Pointer, Frederick Martin, Abner T. Simeri, Jay A. Polley, Clarence Lyman, Eli W. Campbell, Walter S. Gleason, Barbara Meyer, Elizabeth Coon. Mary Monahan, Lucy Edwards and the minor children of Henry Nevill. John J. Rust, aged seventy-three years, died at his home in Lancaster the other day. He came to Kansas from Ohio in 1857 and was one of t best known of the early settlers. He kept the first tavern in Atchison county outside of the city. He has held a number of county ffices. Three children of W. K. Ralph, a farmer, were recently poisoned at Wichita by eating cheese. The youngest, about three years o d, it was feared could not live. The cheese had been purchased at a store and the doctors said there was no doubt that some poisonous substance had found its way into the food. Samuel P. Ernal, yardmaster of the Rock Island road at Atchison, went to work as usual the other morning. About eight o'clock he shot himself through the head and died. E. W. Starboard, a prominent farmer