The Old Bank Of Washtenaw

THE OLD BANK OF WASHTENAW

Which Was Started in Ann Arbor In 1835

ORIGINAL STOCKHOLDERS

Names of Scores of Our Pioneers Appear-An Article Which Will Interest Our Older Readers

Through the kindness of Judge Cheever we have been permitted to glance through the old stock book of the Bank of Washtenaw, one of the earliest banks in Washtenaw, which was organized a few months after the Argus was started. Under date of June 1, 1835, the subscription for stock starts out with:

"We, the undersigned, hereby severally subscribe for the number of shares of the above mentioned stock which are set opposite our respective names."

Then follows the signatures of many of the pioneers of the county. Most of them are from Ann Arbor, which is spelled in two ways, the old spelling of Ann Arbour being retained by a few. The list is as follows, the town being mentioned except where the residence is put down as Ann Arbor:

David A. McCollum, Cornelius Oesterhout, Wm. R. Thompson, Chester Ingalls, John C. Bardwell, Hannah Stevens, E. L. Fuller, Matthews & Bond, Dexter, David Godfrey, Geo. Sutton, John Geddes, Lodi, David Coleman, Jacksonburgh, Eber White, Horace Booth, Lodi, Dan W. Kellogg, E. W. Morgan, John Lowry, Lodi, Leonard Morse, Lodi, Josiah Beckley, Hiram Tinkenor, Pitts. Chauncey S. Goodrich, Abram Kirby, Sharon, William S. Maynard, Luther W. Guiteau, Horace I. Lee, Dexter, Jeremiah Boynton, Grass Lake, S. A. Sperry, D. W. Bliss, Calvin Bliss, Reuben Hall, Samuel Doty, Ira Beckley, Chas. Thayer, L. W. S. Morgan, L. H. Page, M. C. B. Page, James Kingsley, Hanford Reynolds, New York. John Movins, Ypsilanti, David Carrier, Thomas Clerke, Rufus Crossman, Dexter, Andrew Nowland, William McCauley, N. P. Parson, Pitts, J. C Smith, R. B. Norris, Ypsilanti, R. H. Heywood, Buffalo, S. W. Heywood, Buffalo, Mary Scully, Webster, Lucy Ann Kingsley, Lady Betsy Thompson, Thomas Wood, Pitt, P. H. Reeve, Webster, Mary Reeve, Webster, Volney Chapin, Nelson H. Wing, E. L. Gay, Hatch, Lodi, Orrin Howe, Lodi, Dan H. Scully, Webster, Wm. Case, Lodi, Orrin White, Alvah Burgess, Lodi, Virgil Booth, Lodi, Seth Grosvenor, New York, Julia G. Maynard, Chas. Moseley, Levi Bent, David P. Brewster, Sarah S. Pease, Chas. W. Maynard, Munnis Kenny, Webster, David T. McCollum, Joshua M. Lindsley, Sylvester G. Abbott, Lowville, N. Y., DudIey Sawyer, Thomas Barber, Webster, Richard Dean, Chandler Carter, Zenas Nash Jr., Nathaniel Gott, Henry Colclayn, William Anderson, Pitt, Reuben Moore, Charles P. Calkins, Mark Norris, Ypsilanti, Jas. T. Allen, Maria M. Allen, Mary Ann Field, J. E. Field, Silas Crippen, Lodi, Sylvia Lowry, Lodi, Harvey T. Lee, Dexter, Robert Geddes, Ario Pardee, Ypsilanti, John Geddes, Elnathan Botsford, Nathan Sutton. Northfield, Sarah Sutton, Northfield, S. W. & D. C. Foster, Scio, Ralph Peterson, Dexter, Philander Howe, Lodi, Hiram Goodspeed, W. A. Glover, Wm. McCormick, M. Boylan, Leicester Stone, Adna Shaw, L. S. Farrand, M. S. W. Denton, S. Denton, John L. Eastman, Ovid, N. Y., B. Mundy, Lodi, J. C. Mundy, Danl. B. Brown, Samuel Clements, William Lemmon, Dexter, Mrs. Ruanna Fuller, Desire Brown, Tracy W. Root, Dwight Kellogg, Minerva Kellogg, William H. Bennett, Hamburgh, Justus I. Bennett, Hamburgh, John Sanford, Lyon, John Renwlck, Northfield, William Ladd, Hannah Vail, Edward Torry, H. Rumsey, D. Page.

The assignment book shows that William S. Maynard, Julia G. Maynard, Samuel W. Dexter, Olney Hawkins. Samuel Denton and others were soon buying up this stock.