Flour City National Bank - Minneapolis, MN

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 3784
Charter Number: 3784
Start Date: February 8, 1901
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota (44.980, -93.264)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: cbc87fe5

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Description

Article (The Worthington Advance, 1901-02-08) reports Flour City National Bank consolidated with the Security (Bank) and that Business hereafter will be continued by the Security. No run or depositor agitation is mentioned. This is a takeover/consolidation resulting in permanent closure of Flour City National's independent operations.

Events (3)

1. August 29, 1887 Chartered

Source: historical_nic

2. February 8, 1901 Suspension

Cause: Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details: Consolidation/merger with the Security Bank; Flour City National's business continued by Security (takeover/absorption).
Newspaper Excerpt: The Security and the Flour City National banks of Minneapolis have consolidated. Business hereafter will be continued by the Security.
Source: newspapers

3. February 26, 1901 Voluntary Liquidation

Source: historical_nic

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. February 8, 1901 The Worthington Advance Worthington, MN

Article from The Worthington Advance, February 8, 1901

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Article Text

from Washington to the effect that the five new rural mail routes which were laid out in different directions from Faribault last October will be operated regularly on and after Feb. 15. The state game and fish commission has received the resignation of Superintendent Morgan of the Willowbrook fish hatchery, effective March 1. Assistant Superintendent Marti will become head of the hatchery in his stead. State Auditor Dunn received a check from I. M. Birmingham, treasurer at the United Stated sub-treasury in New York, for $6,052, federal aid for veterans of the civil war at the Soldiers' Home. It is possible that a game of football between Minnesota and some eastern school can be arranged to be played at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo next fall. The Winona County Bar association has decided to reorganize and has appointed W. D. Abbott and J. M. Sheardown and Judge D. E. Tawney a committee to draw up a constitution and by-laws. W. D. Washburn states that 125 families in Minneapolis are now making a test of Washburn lignite coal from the senator's mines in North Dakota, and that the results are very satisfactory. No change in stoves or grates has been necessary. The mines are turning out 225 tons a day. Because five good tenors cannot be found in a student body of 3,000, the state university glee club decided to temporarily discontinue rehearsals until such time as a careful examination of the male voices in the institution discovers more available talent. Rev. Samuel Andrews, about 60 years old, a Presbyterian minister whose home is in Iowa, was run over by a train at Wabasso and killed. A postoffice has been established at Willberg, Beltrami county. postoffice has been ordered established at Clementson, Beltrami county. The home of Henry Davis at Le Sueur was destroyed by fire. The 4-year-old son of Otto Alman was killed by being run over with a bobsled several miles east of Mora. He was driving the team when his little son attempted to get on and slipped under the moving load. The supreme court in a decision handed down by Justice Brown holds that the governor has no legal right to appoint election officers on the White Earth reservation. The action of the judges who were appointed is upheld. For a long time the state's executive has appointed officers on the Indian reservations. Last year the appointments for the White Earth reservation resulted in trouble which was taken into the courts. The trustees of Macalester college have raised $80,000 toward liquidating the college's debt, and it is expected that an additional $20,000 will be secured. The Security and the Flour City National banks of Minneapolis have consolidated. Business hereafter will be continued by the Security. The Mankato Electric Street Railway and Lighting and Power company is about to be transferred to an Eastern company, which will pay $10,000 for its franchise and rights. Men are at work cleaning the ruins of the Hennepin paper mill at Little Falls. The company expects to have its new mill operating by May 1. Ellis Stevens, aged 4 years, was ser:ously Injured while soasting on a sled in Minneapolia