Article Text
T. PJUL, Minn. Jan. 4.-The NationGerman-American bank closed its re today. It was capitalized at $1,000. J. W. Lusk is president and Weyerhaeueer is vice-president. B is the institution that suspended a resur ed not long ago.
8742. National German American Bank (St Paul, MN)
Bank Information
- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- national
- Bank ID
- 2943
- Charter Number
- 2943
- Start Date
- January 4, 1897
- Location
- St Paul, Minnesota (44.944, -93.093)
Metadata
- Model
- gpt-5-mini
- Short Digest
3125c9c01538351f
Response Measures
None
Description
Article 1 (Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1897-01-07) reports the National German-American Bank in St. Paul closed on Jan 4; text is OCR-corrupted but clearly states closure and references a recent suspension. No explicit run is mentioned. Article 2 (Ketchum Keystone, 1897-06-12) discusses an arrest of a receiving teller at the German National Bank in St. Paul for $13,000 missing; that appears to refer to a possibly different institution (name differs) but is included as a related local incident. I corrected obvious OCR issues (e.g., NationGerman-American bank -> National German-American bank and interpreted Jan. 4.-The NationGerman-American bank closed its re today as the bank closed its doors on Jan 4). Cause of suspension/closure is not specified in the articles, so classified as unknown/other.
Events (4)
1.
May 9, 1883
Chartered
- Source
- historical_nic
2.
January 4, 1897
Suspension
- Cause Details
- Article states the bank closed on Jan 4 and references a recent suspension; no cause given.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- Jan. 4.-The NationGerman-American bank closed its re today. ... is the institution that suspended a resur ed not long ago.
- Source
- newspapers
3.
June 12, 1897
Other
- Newspaper Excerpt
- One of the receiving tellers of the German National bank at St. Paul has been arrested on a charge of grand larcency, $13,000 in cash having disappeared from the bank last Saturday.
- Source
- newspapers
4.
November 27, 1912
Voluntary Liquidation
- Source
- historical_nic
Newspaper Articles (2)
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Article Text
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