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This
enterprising, progressive and highly useful financial institution, which
the people of Browning and the surrounding country make
liberal use of as a depository of their savings, and which they hold in
very cordial confidence and esteem, was founded in April, 1884, and
opened for business on the fourteenth (lay of that month, with a capital
stock of $10,000. The first officers were B D . Bolling, president, and C.
A. Deadrick, cashier. The original directors, in addition to Mr. Bolling,
were C. A. Deadrick, J. H. Biswell, J. Schrock, Perry McCollum and J. W.
Anderson, the last of Hamilton, Missouri. Mr. Bolling has held the office
of president of the institution from the time of its organization, but the
cashier has been changed several times in the twenty-eight years of the
bank's history.
The changes in the cashiership were in regular order as follows:
C. A. Deadrick was succeeded by W. P. Taylor, and Mr. Taylor by W.
T. Prather. Mr. Prather retired in favor of T M. Sayers, and he in
turn gave way to J. B. Harmon, who is now the vice president, and
whose successor as cashier was F. R. Duncan, who still fills the position.
The capital stock remains as it was at the founding of the bank. But the
volume of business has been greatly expanded and the reputation of the
institution for sound and conservative management, coupled with
commendable enterprise in the control of its affairs, has grown and spread
as time has passed until now the bank is considered one of the best of its
magnitude in the state.
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