California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914



FARMERS' SAVINGS BANK, LAKEPORT.� With an authorized 
capital stock of $I00,000, divided into one thousand shares of the par value 
of $100 each, but with only twenty per cent, or $20,000, paid in at the time 
of organization, the Farmers' Savings Bank of Lakeport was established 
December 8, 1874, and in the forty years of subsequent enterprise has had a 
history of growing prestige and unwavering confidence on the part of de- 
positors. Those at the head of the institution have been conservative to an 
unusual degree, but this very spirit of conservatism has been their shield 
against unwise investments or heavy loans, so that they stand now as finan- 
ciers of unquestioned ability, abundantly able to guide the destinies of the 
concern through future responsibilities. 

The names of the persons who subscribed the original $20,000 are as 
follows: J. H. Renfro, H. Charmack, C. A. Finer, Z. C. Daver, Thomas Allison, 
T. T. Scott, Martha C. Reeves, Robert Oliver, D. P. Shattuck, H. C. Boggs, 
T. \y. Boggs, W. J. Nicholson, Charles Finer, James B. Jamison, Thomas 
Ormiston, Benjamin F. Shaul, Aaron White, Charles Mclntyre, John Gard, 
William Stonebraker, A. H. Nobles, G. W. Gard, Seth Rickabaugh, John Pos- 
lels, Preston Rickabaugh, W. F. Kelsey, D. D. Davis, William Nobles, I. N. 
Gard, James Kelsey, William Gard, J. R. Allison, John Kelsey, William G. 
Reeves, Thomas B. Reeves, Latanus N. Nobles, John R. Lamb, J. E. Shirley, H. 
J. Cooper, W. A. Christie, Jonas Ingram, J. W. Robbe, Louisa Thompson, J. 
C. Thompson, N. W. Washburn, Lindsey Carson, W. J. Butler, G. C. Rippey, 
John Lynch, J. W. Mackall, George Tucker, H. D. Snow, Woods Crawford, 
A. P. McCarthy, M. C. Tucker, George W. Wilson, R. S. Johnson, J. M. 
Martin, J. J. Bruton, Price Snider, Henry Palmer, M. Asher, R. C. Tallman, 
William J. Biggerstaff, John Jones, S. Ballinger, Peter Clark, Robert Buck- 
nell, Sylvia Thomas, J. W. Doty, D. T. Taylor, A. B. Hughes, N. H. Thull, 
D. V. Thompson, L. Gurnett, D. O. McCarthy, G. A. Lyon, R. Phillaber, 
George T. Martin, S. C. Combs. Daniel McLean, E. B. Bole and D. O. 
Shattuck, 

The present board of directors of the bank comprises the following named 
gentlemen : J. W. Boggs, J. Banks, J. W. Byrnes, F. H. Boggs and W. D. 
Rantz, all of Lakeport ; together with S. T. Packwood, of Upper Lake, and 
Andrew Smith, of Finley. The officers for 1914 are as follows: J. \V. Boggs, 
president; Jabez Banks, vice-president; F. H. Boggs, cashier and secretary; 
H. L. Boggs, assistant cashier ; and George R. Smith, assistant cashier. The 
institution is well and safely managed under the personal and intelligent 
supervision of the officers and directors, who have established a reputation 
for a conservative spirit in all business transactions and have thereby drawn 
to their list of depositors many of the best and most successful business men 
of Lake county.