Kings County Biographies


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HANFORD NATIONAL BANK
 
This well established and dependable institution, one of the strong and popular 
banks of Kings county, Cal., was organized in May 1903, was incorporated in the 
following month, and was opened for business July 28, that year. Its savings 
department, known as the Peoples Savings Bank, was organized November 1, 1903.
The first president of the bank was Dr. N. P. Duncan, who died February 15, 
1905, and he was succeeded by W. V. Buckner. Its original vice-president died 
and was succeeded by Charles A. Kimball; H. E. Wright was cashier, S. E. 
Railsback, assistant cashier. The capital stock of the Hanford National Bank was 
$50,000, all paid in, and the capital stock of the Peoples Savings Bank was 
$25,000, $12,500 of which was paid in at the time of its organization, and the 
remainder of which was paid two years later. The board of directors serves for 
both banks and is constituted as follows: W. V. Buckner, L. Hansen, Charles A. 
Kimball, S. E. Railsback and H. E. Wright.
The cashier and manager of this bank, Harland E. Wright, is represented in a 
biographical sketch in this work. He came to Hanford as assistant cashier of the 
Farmers and Merchants Bank and soon became cashier. In 1903 he sold out his 
interest in that bank, in which he had become the largest stockholder, in order 
to promote the organization of the Hanford National Bank. Mr. Railsback is still 
assistant cashier.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 636
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler