Second National Bank (Louisville, KY)

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Episode Information

Episode UID
77700885
Episode Type
Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
7770 national
Charter Number
777
Start Date
September 29, 1873
Location
Louisville, Kentucky (38.254, -85.759)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
5295249df8d1c551

Response Measures

None

Events (4)
1. February 2, 1865 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. September 29, 1873 Suspension
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Collective decision by Louisville banks to suspend specie/currency payments amid the wider 1873 financial crisis; clearing-house settlement plan adopted.
Newspaper Excerpt
it was resolved to take the same action ... to suspend payment for the present in currency, except in small checks
Source
newspapers
3. October 16, 1873 Reopening
Newspaper Excerpt
The Louisville banks have all resumed currency payments.
Source
newspapers
4. June 2, 1894 Voluntary Liquidation
Source
historical_nic

Newspaper Articles (3)
1. September 29, 1873 Public Ledger Memphis, TN
Article from Public Ledger, September 29, 1873

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Article Text

The Financial Situation. LOUISVILLE, September 29.- A largely attended meeting of bank presidents, cashiers and prominent financiers of the city was held in the gentlemen's parlor of the Galt House, yesterday afternoon and evening. The meeting was called to consider upon the present exigencies of the financial situation, and after long and earnest discussion, it was resolved to take the same action as that adopted by the association of banks in New York and the other great financial centers of the country, viz: to suspend payment for the present in currency, except in small checks and to adopt the plan of settlement through a clearing house by means of certified checks and certificates based upon pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing House Association. The following banks were represented: Western Financial Corporation, Bank of Louisville, Planters' Na tional Bank, Peoples' Bank, Farmers' and Drovers' Bank, Citizens' Bank, Louisville City National Bank, Second National Bank, Merchants' Bank, Falls City Tobacco Bank, Bank of America, German Security Bank. JEFFERSONVILLE, IND., September 29. The Ohio Falls Car Works has suspended operations in order to take a calm survey of the situation. James Howard & Co., boat builders, paid two thirds wages on Saturday, and will not suspend work. There was some little run on the banks Saturday, but checks were promptly cashed and no panic occurred.

2. October 16, 1873 Wilmington Daily Commercial Wilmington, DE
Article from Wilmington Daily Commercial, October 16, 1873

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Latest General News. The members of the Evangelical Alliance spent yesterday in Washington, visiting the Capitol, where. in the rotunda, all joined in singing the Coronation Hymn. Governor Shepherd gave them a dinner. The Army of the Tennessee Re-union began at Toledo, Obio, yesterday. Gen. Sherman presiding. The attendance was large, including Generals Sheridan, Logan, Howard, and Custer. The California State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, met at San Jose on Tuesdav, one hundred granges being represented. Among the matters to be considered is the appointment of a committee to petition Congress for a grant of land to the State for a State system of irrigation. A few deaths from yellow fever have occurred at Lou'sville during the past few days, the victime being fugitives from Memphis. The yacht Julia returning from the New York regatta last evening, was sunk by collision with a ferry boat on the North river, and Commodore Edward Morton, of the New Jersey Yacht Club was drowned. Five yellow fever deaths were reported in Montgomery, Ala., during the past 48 hours. Among the dead is Francis Widmer, ex-Internal Revenue Collector, who was suspended for defalcation. Sbreveport despatches say the yellow fever is dying ont in that city, and that "about thirty black-vomito cases have recovered." There were 41 yellow fever deaths in Memphis on Tuesday, among the victims being Sisters Magdalen and Marie, of La Salette Academy. Up to noon yesterday 35 yellow fever deaths were reported. At Memphis, the mayor being sick, there is a quarrel between the heads of the two benches of the City Council for the position of acting Mayor. The courts as usual are appealed to. The Louisville banks have all resumed cnrrency payments. The first Congress of the "Association for the Advancement of Women," met in New York yesterday. The Association was ogranized on Tuesday night by the election of Mrs. Mary A. Livermore as President. The object of the society is stated to be "the promotion of the moral, intellectual and physical well-being of women." The Atlantics defeated the Biltim ores at New York yesterday by a ecore of 8 to 6.

3. September 7, 1893 Democratic Northwest Napoleon, OH
Article from Democratic Northwest, September 7, 1893

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# CONDENSED NEWS. A Collection of Interesting Items on Various Subjects, Especially Prepared for the Hasty Readers. Knights of Labor are raising funds to work for the release of Hugh Dempsey now serving a sentence for complicity in the Homestead poisoning conspiracy. Serious trouble is feared in the Kansas coal fields. Armed strikers are encamped near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe mines, near Frontenac, and declare they will not let nonunion men work. At Chicago 25 labor leaders and 25 business men have organized into a relief committee. This joint committee will work together in trying to find work and bread for the unemployed residents of Chicago. Edward Rider, a rich farmer living near Baltimore, was bunkoed out of $5,000 by the old racket-two tin boxes shifted. Posters advertising for recruits for the United States army were torn down in Ottawa. According to full returns the cotton crop of Texas will fall 25 per cent below that of last year. At 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon the first spadeful of dirt was turned for the mid-winter fair in Golden Gate park, San Francisco. Mrs. Perine, Mrs. Cleveland's mother is announced to arrive in Washington about the middle of September "to take care of Mrs. Cleveland." Unless the employes of the St. Paul railroad change their mind there will be no strike. They claim that there is cause but not the slightest chance of success, there being so many unemployed. The national banks at Louisville are getting ready to resume business. Nellie Leavell walked from Marion, Ind., to get into the Indianapolis reformatory because she was mistreated at home. Northwestern Indiana and eastern Illinois are in great danger from prairie fires. There has been no rain in 10 weeks and already fires are blazing in the vicinity of South Bend, Ind. There will probably be great loss before the fires are gotten under control. The salmon run this year in the Fraser river, in British Columbia, is larger than ever before. Some of the small tributaries are so choked with fish that the boats are unable to cross. The run averages 900 to the boat. Many boats were swamped and one fisherman was drowned. One of the richest lead strikes ever made in the Galena region, was made a day or or two ago in an abandoned shaft. Frank T. Howard, brother of Miss Annie Howard, has announced that the marriage of Miss Howard to Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago will take place in the latter part of September at the summer home of the Howards at Biloxi, the watering place of the gulf coast in southern part of Mississippi.