Kings County Biographies


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FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LEMOORE
 
     That strong financial institution, the First National Bank of Lemoore, the 
policy of which from the first has been to extend to the business community all 
accommodations consistent with sound banking and which has been a potent factor 
in the upbuilding and development of Lemoore and its tributary territory, was 
organized June 9, 1905, and began business in July following. Its original 
capital stock was $25,000, all paid up. The first officers and directors were: 
B. K. Sweetland, president: Stiles McLaughlin, vice-president; F. J. O. Cockran, 
cashier; E. G. Sellers, C. H. Bailey, John Trimble and E. P. May. In February, 
1912, its capital stock was increased to $50,000. The bank has erected a fine 
two-story building, covering a ground space of seventy-five by one hundred feet, 
at Fox and D streets. It is a modern brick structure, containing fine banking 
offices and the best facilities for keeping of cash and valuable securities. It 
is the belief of the bank officials and of the general public that this banking 
establishment is as nearly fireproof and burglar-proof as it is possible to make 
it. 
 
     The First National Bank of Lemoore has from the day of its opening steadily 
grown in the confidence of the business community of the city and surrounding 
country, and numbers among its depositors many of the wealthiest and most 
important business men and citizens of that part of the county. The following 
are the names of its present officers and directors; C. H. Bailey, president: E. 
G. Sellers, vice-president; W. E. Dingley, cashier: G. B. Chinn, Stiles 
McLaughlin, L. S. Step, and J. K. Trimble.
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913 Pp 308
Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn