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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
1869, died in 1883; David B. Flint, elected 1883, resigned in 1887; Charles E. Raymond, elected 1887, resigned 1889. Walter S. Swan, now its president, was elected in 1889. Mr. Dana, its first cashier, held the position until November 22, 1858, when he resigned, and Eben Snow was elected. Mr. Snow resigned January 1, 1890, and George H. Holmes, the present cashier, was elected. The board of directors is composed of Walter S. Swan, William T. Richardson (elected a director in 1845), James A. Wood, R. N. Toppan, and William B. Durant. The capital of the bank is $100,000, and it has a surplus and undivided profits of $61,471. The first National Bank The first National Bank.—In the autumn of 1860, during the period when civil war menaced the country, and filled the public mind with anxious thoughts, and at a time when the country was suffering a consequent financial depression, a few of the leading citizens of Cambridge conceived the idea of organizing a new bank, an action d
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Government of the city of Cambridge, 1896. (search)
A. Bancroft. Board of aldermen. President, John R. Fairbairn. Russell Bradford. Marshall N. Stearns. Henry White. Charles M. Conant. Peter F. Rourke. Peter P. Bleiler. Clarence H. Douglass. Charles P. Keith. Watson G. Cutter. James A. Wood. Clerk, Edward J. Brandon. Common Council. President, John L. Odiorne. Ward One. Melville C. Beedle. William F. Brooks. George E. Saunders. Walter C. Waudwell. Ward Two. Sedley Chaplin. William R. Davis. Charles H. Montague.e committees. Finance. President John R. Fairbairn, chairman; President John L. Odiorne, clerk; William E. Thomas, assistant clerk; Messrs. Stillman F. Kelley, Henry O. Houghton, John H. Ponce, and John Hopewell, Jr. schools. Alderman James A. Wood, chairman; Councilman George E. Saunders, clerk; Councilman Daniel S. Coolidge, Messrs. William A. Munroe, Thomas W. Higginson, Rev. Thomas Scully, Joseph J. Kelley, Charles Bullock, and John C. Watson. public meeting. Mr. George A.